The "sagebrush telegraph" enabled news to spread quickly, but most people utilized the mail for "intentional" communications. Wanting to get to the camp as soon as possible, she mailed a letter to her husband, in which she told him to meet her in Mojave. So that there would be no time for husband to object (essentially, she would be giving up her medical career in order to join him at the camp), she took a train out to the desert.
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