- Pablo Valencia
Pablo Valencia, a prospector, is remembered primarily for his extraordinarily close brush with death in August 1905. Valencia, en route with one Jesús Rios to an Arizona claim, realized belatedly that they had not brought enough water to sustain themselves, and sent his companion to secure more.Franklin, Kevin. [http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/06-27-96/outthere.htm "Out There: Hot Summer Reading"] , "
Tucson Weekly ",June 27 ,1996 , accessedAugust 2 ,2007 .] Rios did so, but afterwards could not find his partner for want of an agreed-upon meeting place; Valencia, consequently, found himself alone and waterless in the middle of theSonoran Desert . In this state, he wandered for more than six days with nothing but his own urine and what moisture he could coax from a single scorpion to drink, growing ever weaker.Philbrick, Nathaniel. "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex". New York: Penguin Books, 2000. p 126 ISBN 0-14-100182-8.] More dead than alive, he eventually reached the only source of water for miles in any direction, Tinajas Altas. There he was nursed back to health byW. J. McGee , who wrote of his ordeal in a paper, "Desert Thirst as Disease."See also
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Dehydration
*Sonoran Desert
*W. J. McGee References
External links
* [http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/06-27-96/outthere.htm Recounting of Valencia's Experience]
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