Pondering the Lonesome Traveler

"--And towns like Los Mochis (The Flies) where we sat drinking Orange Crush like grandees at sticky little tables, where the day's headline in the Los Mochis newspaper told of a midnight's gun duel between the Chief of Police and the Mayor--it was all over town, some excitement in the white alleys--both of them with revolvers on their hips, bang, blam right in the muddy street outside the cantina."

~Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac

I have often wondered if this incident really happened.

Was it a true story?

I have yet to find out.

Los Mochis actually means

The Turtles.

He would have known, he ran the Los Mochis newspaper,

El Debate, at the time.

Manuel Moreno Rivas