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On desert trails, today and yesterday

Title
On desert trails, today and yesterday / by Randall Henderson ; designs by Don Louis Perceval ; desert maps by Norton Allen.
Author
Henderson, Randall
Publication
Los Angeles, California : Westernlore Press, [1961]

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Description
357 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Founder and first editor of "Desert" magazine draws on a half-century's experience to give a panorama of desert people and events.
Subject
  • Deserts > Southwest, New
  • Déserts > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest)
  • Deserts
  • Travel
  • Southwest, New > Description and travel
  • Southwest, New > History
  • États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) > Descriptions et voyages
  • États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) > Histoire
  • New Southwest
Genre/Form
History.
Contents
  • Preface -- There are two deserts -- Water for a thirsty land -- Old iron boat on the Colorado -- Gold, men, and burros -- Phantom treasure -- Scotty builds a castle -- Adventure in Crater Elegante -- Saga of a nomad artist -- Cliff dwellers of Kaiparowits -- Palm hunter in the wastelands -- Baja California trails -- Hogan of a medicine man -- Graveyard of the gods -- Men who dance with snakes -- Utah wilderness trails -- Campfires in sage and sand -- Sahara interlude -- There's gems in the hills -- The truth-seekers -- Survival on the desert -- Far horizons.
  • Illustrations: Stern-wheeler Explorer departs from Yuma Landing -- Iron skeleton of historic steamboat Explorer -- Superstition Mountains in Central Arizona -- Death Valley Scotty, with Bessie and Albert Johnson -- Scotty's Castle, in the Death Valley desert -- Everett Ruess, who disappearance has never been solved -- Sketch, by Randall, of Everett Ruess in Canyon de Chelly -- Kaiparowits Plateau in southern Utah -- Monument Valley -- the graveyard of the gods -- Navajo sand painters -- Smoki snake dancers at the climax of their dance -- Smoki snake priests with writhing reptiles in their mouths -- Rainbow Natural Bridge, in southern Utah -- Horseshoe Canyon pictographs, near Green River, Utah -- Navajo medicine man studies pictographs -- Tapping the barrel cactus -- four photographs.
  • Maps: Map showing land area acquired from Mexico -- Map showing dams and weirs constructed in the lower Colorado River since 1910 -- Map showing location of remains of the Ive's steamboat Explorer -- Map showing area of Lost Pegleg gold -- Map showing location of ancient Lake Cahuilla -- Map showing Scotty's Castle, in northern end of Death Valley National Monument -- Map of Pinacate region of Sonora, Mexico, and Elegante Crater -- Precipitous canyon country in southern Utah, where Everett Ruess was last seen
  • Maps: Kaiparowits Plateau, overlooking the Colorado River, in southern Utah -- Map of northern sector of the peninsula of Baja California, from Tijuana to Mulege -- Monument Valley -- "Graveyard of the Gods" -- The Hopi Villages in northern Arizona -- Map of Robber's Roost Country, and the Land of Standing Rocks -- Havasu Canyon, home of the Supai Indians -- Map of area in Desert Southwest, where rock and gem collectors hunt and dig for semi-precious stones.
LCCN
61018735
OCLC
  • ocm02100832
  • 2100832
  • SCSB-596940
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library