Curmudgeon
Los Angeles
Citing Tony Cohan ... — 2 years ago
... in On Mexican Time, who mentions how so-called Dean Moriarty met his end. Cohan reports taking a “walk down to the lake at the bottom of the town. After half an hour …, I arrive at the railroad tracks where the Mexico City—Juárez train gives off the whistle we hear late at night in the hotel. This is where Neal Cassady, real-life hero of Kerouac’s On the Road, was found sprawled dead on the tracks one morning in 1968, after setting out from San Miguel the night before with the amphetamine-fueled intent to count every railroad tie between here and nearby Celaya with his nose—or so goes the account.”
A slightly more detailed telling appears at http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/cassady.html .
