mo-hah-ve

Updated: June 23, 2025

And in returning from California along the Spanish trail, as far as the head of the Santa Clara Fork of the Rio Virgen, I crossed only small streams making their way south to the Colorado, or lost in sand as the Mo-hah-ve; while to the left, lofty mountains, their summits white with snow, were often visible, and which must have turned water to the north as well as to the south, and thus constituted, on this part, the southern rim of the Basin.

De Witt C. (De Witt Clinton) Peters - The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself