Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 18, 1993
June 17, 1993
June 19, 1993
Transcript:
Spike looks at a cactus. Spike thinks, "Did you know that Blackbeard, the pirate, buried all his gold here in the desert?"<BR><BR> Spike leans on a rock and thinks, "And that Blackbeard once spent the night in a motel in Needles? That's what someone told me . ."<BR><BR> Spike thinks, "You don't believe anything, do you?"<BR><BR>
Edward “Blackbeard” Teach died in 1718, and the area at the California-Nevada border where Needles is today was pretty much unsettled. Spanish Jesuits only began opening missions in what is now Baja California in the 1690s, and it wasn’t until 1768 that what is now California became a province of New Spain. It seems doubtful that any European had been to the area before the 1730s.