The following teaser is from an article posted June 14, 2015 at the chicoer.com website.
Bradley [CA] Joseph Botts Jr. stepped out of his pickup truck into a scrubby, sunbaked field of salt grass and mustard weed and bent over a granite slab bearing a worn inscription: “Corp’l John McBride.”
The retired park ranger has known about the Civil War veteran’s gravesite for most of his life. But for much of the past half-century, McBride’s remains and the tiny ghost town where he met his fate lay at the bottom of a Monterey County reservoir, submerged due to a thirsty state’s need to corral every drop that flows through its parched ravines.
