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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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Details
- 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
- 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