ABDILL, George B. PACIFIC SLOPE RAILROADS FROM 1854 TO 1900. New York: Bonanza Books, n.d. 182pp text, photographic illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a history of California and Northwestern railroads, including the Tonopah and Tidewater. Built by F.M. “Borax” Smith in 1905, the “T&T” ran north from the Santa Fe line at Ludlow in the Mojave to the mining boomtown of Goldfield, Nevada. Operations ceased in 1940.


(Adams, Ansel). NEWHALL, Nancy. DEATH VALLEY. Photographs by Ansel Adams... Guide by Ruth Kirk, Maps Drawn by Edith Hamlin. Redwood City: 5 Associates, 1970. 4to, 63pp, full-page b&w and color photo-illus. throughout, map endpapers. ¶ Fourth edition, originally published in 1959.


ADAMS, Frank. PROGRESS REPORT OF CO-OPERATIVE IRRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS IN CALIFORNIA 1912-1914. Sacramento: State of California Department of Engineering, 1915. 8vo, 74pp, 5 plates (most with multiple photo-illus.), folding map of Imperial County showing drilled wells, tipped-in (as issued), charts and diagrams throughout. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. ¶ Bulletin No.1, reprinted from the Fourth Biennial Report of the Department of Engineering for December 1, 1912, to November 30, 1914.


ADAMS, John A. Jr. DAMMING THE COLORADO. the Rise of the Lower Colorado River Authority, 1933-1939. Texas A & M, 1990. 161pp, photos, maps & drawings.


ADLER, Pat & Walt Whellock. WALKER’S R.R. ROUTES - 1853. Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1965. 8vo, 64pp, 9 illus, 3 maps. ¶ First Edition, 1000 copies printed. “The book prints Capt Joseph Walker’s ‘Statement’ before the Senate committee on Public Lands on March 24, 1853, regaridng proposed routes for a railroad, mostly of them through Walker’s Pass and east across the Mojave” (Edward, Enduring Desert, p.3).


ADMIRAL, Don. DESERT OF THE PALMS... Photos Courtesy of Avery Edwin Field, the Desert Magazine. Palm Springs: Don Admiral, 1938. 8vo, 55pp, with folding map of Desert of the Palms of Southern California drawn by Helen Cooke Miller tipped in. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Among the topics of interest, Mr Admiral writes of the Colorado Desert’s palms, its Indians, the Palms Springs-Indio Road, Palms to Pines Highway, Salton Sea, Carrizo Creek, Borrego Valley, Imperial Valley, Shrubs, Cacti, Wildflowers, Birds, Mammals, and Reptiles. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.3-4.


ADMIRAL, Don. PALM SPRINGS DESERT AREA AND VICINITY. Palm Springs: The Desert Sun, n.d. 31pp, 16 illus. Wrappers. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.4: “This is a booklet of carefully assembled material ont he desert in and around Palm Springs.”


ADOLPH, E.F. & Associates. PHYSIOLOGY OF MAN IN THE DESERT - Survival in an Arid Land. New York: Interscience Publishers Inc., 1947. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.4.


AIKEN, Ednah. THE RIVER. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1914. 8vo, (10), 423pp, color frontispiece by Sidney H. Riesenberg. Red cloth, gilt. ¶ First Edition of a novel of the Colorado Desert reclamation era, written to idealize Cory, much to the indignation of Rockwood’s friends. “While not historically accurate, the book gives a very true presentation of early life, customs, and conditions in the town of Calexico in the early days” (Margaret Romer, History of Calexico). “The harnessing of the Colorado River and vivid pictures of desert life are featured in this interesting novel where remarkable feats of engineering occur (Baird & Greenwood 34). Hinkel p.3.


AINSWORTH, Ed. FIVE ACRES OF HEAVEN. Presented by Col. E.B. Moore and Mrs. Marion U. Moore of Joshua Tree, California, to All Those Who Love the Desert. (Los Angeles: Lithographed by Homer H. Boelter), 1955. 8vo, 30pp, 46 illus., color frontispiece of John Hilton painting. Wrappers. With mimeo letter from the authors laid in. ¶ “This descriptive brochure of the High Desert country (Morongo, Yucca Valley, Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms) is a generous presentation issue by Colonel and Mrs. E.B. Moore - who invested time and energy in locating homesteaders on Five Acres of Heaven.”(Edwards p.5). Wrappers subtitled “Story of the Great American Desert.”


AINSWORTH, Ed. GOLDEN CHECKERBOARD. How the Cahuillas - Richest Indians in the World - Won Their Heritage and Fortune in Palm Springs. Palm Desert: Desert-Southwest, [1965]. 8vo, 195pp, photographic illustrations. Cloth in dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, Deluxe Edition limited to 100 signed copies. “Golden Checkerboard relates the tragic experiences of a small band of Agua Caliente Indians who occupied an area that, until recently, was a spread of barren desert sand surrounding some age-old hot springs at the base of Mt San Jacinto. It describes the paradoxical predicament of this isolated group of Indians who were nearly destitute of even the basic necessities of life, yet were privileged to compute their actual monetary wealth in terms of millions of dollars. Far back in 1876, during President Grant’s administration, and more than fifty years before the region now know as Palm Springs held attraction for any considerable number of white men, the government granted alternate sections (640 acres each) of what was then worthless desert to this one small band of Indians. However, although the Indians were technically the owners of these alternate sections, the land was held in trust for them by the federal government. They could not sell it; they could not lease it except for short-term periods that offered no possible inducement for development. To complicate an already deplorable situation, one of these alternate sections (Section 14) sprawled its unsightly squalor across the very heart of the plush desert region of Palm Springs. No paved road penetrated it; to get from one segment of the city to another, it was necessary to drive completely around this unattractive square mile of Indian land. Ainsworth describes the long, seemingly endless period of litigation that finally resulted in the break-through permitting the city to acquire by purchase the present airport section (Section 18) and to permit the Indians to grant long-term leases, and right-of-ways for improved roads, through Section 14 - the mile-long eastern border of Indian Avenue. A further result of this break-through was to enrich the Indians. Ainsworth states that one little six-year old girl received $284,749. for her share of the airport section; other owners averaged $95,000 a piece. In addition all members of the tribe receive perpetual income from leasehold rentals in Section 14”). Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.5-6).


AINSWORTH, Ed. PAINTERS OF THE DESERT. Glimpses of Those Who Captured for Themselves and for Their Fellowmen the Beauty and Message of the American Desert. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine, 1960. 4to, 111pp, color & b/w plates throughout. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. Selections from a group of significant desert artists with short biographies on their life and work. Included are Maynard Dixon; Clyde Forsythe; Jimmy Swinnerton; Nicolai Fechen; Carl Eytel; Paul Lauritz; Conrad Buff; Orpha Klinker; Don Louis Perceval; John Hilton; Burt Procter; R. Brownell McGrew; and Bill Bender. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.6: “This is a gorgeous, delightful book.”


AINSWORTH, Edward Maddin. EAGLES FLY WEST. New York: Macmillan, 1945. ¶ First Edition of a novel based on the battle of Kearny’s Army of the West with the Californians under Andres Pico at San Pasqual. Edwards, Enduirng Desert, p.5.


AINSWORTH, Edward Maddin. THE BECKONING DESERT. Illustrated by Bill Bender. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, (1962). 8vo, 264pp, b/w text illus. Publ. tan and red cloth, dust jacket illus. by Bender. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author. Painter John Hilton provides a foreword. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.4-5. “Possibly some will consider that he slants his book too generously toward Palm Springs, Palm Desert, and the Salton Sea, at the expense of other desert areas that are also beckoning.”


AINSWORTH, Katherine. THE McCALLUM SAGA, The Story of the Founding of Palm Springs. Palm Springs: The Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1973. 4to, xvi, 245pp, illustrated. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, one of 500 numbered copies signed by Ainsworth (there was also a trade edition). John Guthrie McCallum was the first non-Indian to settle permanently in Palm Springs, then a little oasis known as Agua Caliente. A lawyer from San Francisco, he had moved to San Bernardino in the early 1880s and become an Indian agent, but with a son suffering form TB he resigned his position and moved in 1884 to the newly named Palm City for the benign climate. McCallum thought the region could become a major agricultural center because of the early growing season and began to buy land and build irrigation canals. he also convinced Wellwood Murray from Banning to build a hotel; Murray then leased the hot springs from the Indians and built a bath house for the patrons. the Palm Springs Hotel became the town’s firs resort-oriented business.


ALBERT, Marvin H. PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND. New York: Dell Books, 1963. 12mo, color wrappers. ¶ A Warner Brothers movie starring Troy Donahue & Connie Stevens (on cover), also Ty Hardin and Robert Conrad.


ALBRIGHT, George L. OFFICIAL EXPLORATIONS FOR PACIFIC RAILROADS 1853-1855. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1921. 8vo, 187pp, foldout map. ¶ Volume XI in the University of California Publications in History series. A discussion of the routes which were advocated.


ALDRICH, Lorenzo D. JOURNAL OF THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA & THE GOLD MINES. With Notes by glen Dawson. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1950. 93pp, folding pocket map. ¶ One of 330 copies printed, although no limitation stated. Of the first edition of Aldrich’s Journal of 1851 only six copies are recorded. the author was among the emigrants who followed the Southern route to the goldfields and one chapter details the 1849 crossing of the Gila River and the Colorado Desert. Dawson includes a bibliography listing some 25 diaries of emigrants traveling the Gila River Valley route to California. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.7: Aldrich’s “brief but illuminating account is one of the most delightful of the overland diaries.” Howes A109. Kurutz 8b.


ALLEN, C.R. SAN ANDREAS FAULT ZONE in San Gorgonio Pass, Southern California. Vol. 68-3, pp.315-350, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 1957.


ALMSTEDT, Ruth Farrell. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE DIEGUENO INDIANS... Ramona: Ballena Press, 1974. 4to,(4), 52pp, map. ¶ First Edition of this bibliography which lists 430 works dealing with this native American people who lived in what is now the San Diego and Imperial counties of California.


ANDERHOLT, Joseph J. & Dorothy. THE HISTORY OF THE IMPERIAL COUNTY SWISS Holtville: The Imperial Valley Swiss Club, 1984.


ANDERSON, Jean C. PACIFIC RAILROAD SURVEY IN CALIFORNIA. [In:] Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, September, 1948. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.8: “this 18pp article should be read by one unfamiliar with the Railroad Surveys Program before he ventures into the original 13-vol. Survey Reports. It will give him an intelligent idea of what they are all about.”


ANDERSON, Winslow. MINERAL SPRINGS AND HEALTH RESORTS OF CALIFORNIA with a Complete Chemical Analysis of Every Important Mineral Water in the World. San Francisco: Bancroft, 1892. Large 8vo, xxx, 384pp, 60 illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth pictorially stamped in gilt and black. ¶ This important text concentrates on the springs and health resorts of California and the illustrations include several of Yosemite, as well as views from San Diego to Lake Tahoe. Numerous European springs are also included in the text. Anderson describes 196 thermal or mineral springs in California, with chemical analyses of the water from many. Cowan p.16 cites first ed of 1890. Cordasco 90-0162.


(Anon.) A DESERT CURE. [In:] Sunset Magazine, May, 1909. ¶ “This is an account, duly authenticated by physicians, of a man who effected a cure for Bright’s disease while living on the desert at Palm Springs. The item assumes some importance by depicting the initial stage of the devlopment of Palm Springs” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.8).


ANTHONY, Frances. “To Palm Canyon.” [In:] Land of Sunshine 12, October, 1900.


(Anza). ANZA CONQUERS THE DESERT; the Anza Expeditions from Mexico to California... San Diego: Union-Tribune, 1971.


(Anza). BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. ANZA’S CALIFORNIA EXPEDITIONS. I: An Outpost of Empire. II: Opening a Land Route to California. III. The San Francisco Colony. IV: Font\'s Complete Diary. V: Correspondence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930. 5 vols, 8vo, 529, 473, 436, 534, 426pp, with many maps and plates. Orig. blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. ¶ An important work containing translations of the Diaries of Anza, Diaz, Garces, Font and Palou relating to the 1774 California expeditions crossing the Imperial Valley, together with personal and official correspodence. Volume 1 of the set was issued separately as Outposts of Empire. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.11 (& p.86 for vol. 4: Font’s Diary). Zamorano 80. Cf. Howes B583.


(Anza). BOWMAN, J.N. and R. F. Heizer. ANZA AND THE NORTHWEST FRONTIER OF NEW SPAIN. Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1967. ¶ Southwest Museum Papers No. 20,


ANZA & FONT. AN EARLY CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS: 1775. Los Angeles: Homer Boelter, 1956. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.11.


ARCHER, Lou Ella. Illustrated by Lillian Wilhelm Smith. CANYON SHADOWS. Phoenix: (Times-Mirror Press), 1931. 4to, (35)pp, 7 color plates. Orig. burlap with color landscape inlay and titles stamped in dark brown. ¶ Of note for the illustration of Seven Palms, an oasis near Desert Hot Springs. Most of the others poems and plates have Arizona settings. Lillian Wilhelm Smith (1882-1971) enrolled at the Art Student’s League at the age of 12 and an interest in the American West was inspired by a visit to Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show at Madison Square Garden in 1907. In 1913 Zane Grey (who was married to Lillian’s cousin) invited her to accompany him on a trip to Navajo country in order to illustrate Rainbow Trail, his sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage. She fell under the spell of Arizona and spent the remainder of her long life there, often traveling with Grey to paint illustrations for his books and dust jackets. From her homes in Prescott and Sedona she made numerous painting trips to the Southern California deserts, and painted the remote oasis of Seven Palms, now in the town of Desert Hot Springs to the north of Palm Springs. Hinkel, Poetry, p.8, indicating this is Archer’s only book and noting the Palm Springs locale.


ARNOLD, Adelaide Wilson. SON OF THE FIRST PEOPLE. Illustrated by Loren Barton. New York: Macmillan, 1940. 8vo, (8), 248pp. Orange cloth, dust jacket illustrated by Loren Barton. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author beneath the dedication. An adolescent novel about the Cahuillas, by the gifted author from Twentynine Palms. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.12.


ARRIS, Susan. THE LIVING EARTH BOOK OF DESERTS. Pleasantville, NY: Reader’s Digest Association, (1993). 4to, 224pp. 400 plus color illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ A handsome survey of world deserts.


ARTUNIAN, Judy & Mike Oldham. PALM SPRINGS IN VINTAGE POSTCARDS... Foreword by Howard Johns. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, (2005). 8vo, 128pp, approx. 200 b/w photo-illus. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition, from the Postcard History Series.


AUBURY, Lewis B. A BIBLIOGRAPHY RELATING TO GEOLOGY, Paleontology and Mineral Resources of California. Sacramento: California State Mining Bureau, 1904. 8vo, 290p. ¶ An early listing of relevant titles.


AULT, Phil. THIS IS THE DESERT: the Story of America’s Arid Region. New York: Dodd Mead, 1959.


AUSMUS, Bob. EAST MOJAVE DIARY. Tales of the Mojave Road Number 16. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1989. 8vo, 176pp, photographic and line-drawings, endpaper maps. Green cloth, gilt. ¶ First Edition. Bob Ausmus was the owner of the Cima General Store where he held forth with philosophy and historical lore about the East Mojave desert. He had lived there all his life and knew everyone in the region. Here is a collection of those fascinating stories.


AUSTIN, Mary. FIRE. ¶ In 1921 the Indian pageant of Palm Springs was held at the entrance to Tahquitz Canyon for which Mary Austin wrote the first spectacular titled Fire.


AUSTIN, Mary. LOST BORDERS. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. 8vo, 209pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of a collection of 14 tales of the desert set in Death Valley, Lone Pine, and Inyo County “by the one perhaps most gifted among those who write stories of our ‘silent land’” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.15). Baird & Greenwood 120: “Stories of desert rats and desperate women.”


AUSTIN, Mary. ONE-SMOKE STORIES. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1934. 8vo, xv, 295pp, illus by Gerald Cassidy. Pictorial cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a collection of 43 desert tales originally told around the campfire during an automobile trip through the American Southwest that Austin (1868-1934) undertook in the spring of 1923 in preparation for the writing of “The Land of Journey\'s Ending” (1924). Edwards p.15, who adored Austin, thought this title did not represent her well.


AUSTIN, Mary. THE LAND OF LITTLE RAIN. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1903. 4to, xv, 281pp, frontispiece, 3 plates, and text illustrations by E. Boyd Smith throughout. Original decorated cloth. ¶ These 14 clairvoyant desert essays won Austin a place in American literature. The Land of Little Rain ranks among all-time great books on California and is an acknowledged classic of the desert. It is, in the opinion of many, the finest American illustrated book of its time; few artists have so perfectly captured the spirit of place as has E. Boyd Smith in the depictions of desert life in the Owens Valley and the approaches to Death Valley. Cowan p.24. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.14. Howes A-400. Powell, Land of Fact, 1. Zamorano 80 no.2. Fourth Impression.


AUSTIN, Maude Mason. ANNALS OF THE DESERT. Boston: Stratford Co., 1930. 8vo, 105pp, french-fold, plus 25 b/w photos by Gandara. Blue moire cloth, gilt title. ¶ Only Edition of a scarce privately printed prose meditation with photographs of desert scenes of the Southwest or Northern Mexico. One piece titled “Where Radios and Lipsticks are Unknown” notes the Indian wife’c concern that her husband now overindulge in Peyote, “the brutalizing drug in the dried flowering tops of the peyote cactus - Lopophora kewinii.”


BAGLEY, Helen. SAND IN MY SHOE; Homestead Days in Twentynine Palms. With an Introduction by Lucile and Harold Weight. Twentynine Palms: Calico Press, (1978). 8vo, xviii, 268pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Publ. beige cloth, lettered in brown, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. Reminescences of the Bagleys who began their fifty-five year sojourn at the oasis in Twentynine Palms in 1927.


BAILEY, Gilbert Ellis. SALINE DEPOSITS OF CALIFORNIA. Sacramento State Mining Bureau Bulletin, 1902. 216pp, 24 plates, 5 maps. ¶ First Edition. “The bulletin contains a vast amount of data, much of it non-technical descriptiive material on California Desert areas, particularly concerning the region in and near Death Valley” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.16).


BAILEY, Paul. AN UNNATURAL HISTORY OF DEATH VALLEY, With Reflections on The Valley’s Varmints, Virgins, Vandals and Visionaries. Death Valley: Chalfant Press, 1978. 8vo, 84pp, misc b&w photo-illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, published for the Death Valley ‘49ers, illustrated with photographs and drawings by Bill Bender.


BAILEY, Philip. GOLDEN MIRAGES... The Story of the Lost Pegleg Mine, The Legendary Three Gold Buttes, and Yarns of and by Those Who Know the Desert. New York: Macmillan, 1940. 8vo, xviii, (10), 353pp, photo-illus. frontispiece, 24 photo-illus. plates, 8 maps, 1 text illus. Publ. navy cloth, lettered in gilt, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by the author. “Here is a book that rivets one’s attention all the way from the artistic dust wrapper to the conclusion of the last chapter. Golden Mirages is a classic in the realm of lost-treasure tales. There is much interesting material on the Lost Pegleg mine, the fabled Lost Ship of the Desert, and Carrizo Corridor. The book becomes more delightful upon each successive reading” (Edwards p.17); Paher, Nevada, 55.


BALDWIN, Faith. ENCHANTED OASIS. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. 8vo, (6), 305, (7)pp. Cloth, illustrated dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by the author in the year of publication. An early Palm Springs novel by the prolific authoress (her 28th!). Baird & Greenwood 153: “An English girl encounters rivalries in Palm Springs society.”


BALDWIN, Faith. ENCHANTED OASIS. New York: Dell Publishing, [n.d., ca 1948]. 12mo, 210pp. Wrappers illustrated with frolicking couple in bathing suits on front, map of Palm Springs and vicinity on back. ¶ Dell Book 255, one of the handsome Mapback series.


BALL, Sydney H. A GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE IN SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1907. 8vo, 218, vi pp, 16 figures, 3 plates (incl. large color folding map). Orig. printed wrappers. ¶ First Edition, United States Geological Survey Bulletin No. 308. Covers the area from Tonopah to Goldfield to south of Bullfrog and partially into Inyo County. The author, Sydney H. Ball (1877Ð1949), is extremely detailed.


BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. GUIDE TO THE COLORADO MINES (San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft & Co.,) 1863. 16pp, tables, folding map. Flexible faux-leather cloth, gilt. The lithographed map measures 28 x 44 cm, exclusive of one inch ornamental borders. ¶ Rare. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1060 (and see V, I, p.64 footnote and V, II, p.385). OCLC notes only the copies at Berkeley and Yale (the Parker-Streeter copy).


BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. “Guide to the Colorado Mines.” [In:] California Historical Quarterly, Vol. XII, 1933. ¶ A reproduction of the rare pamphlet and map, with a foreword by R.E. Cowan. Describes the stations along the Old Bradshaw Stage route from San Pedro to the Colorado River, including Agua Blanco (Whitewater), Agua Calienta (Palm springs), Sand Hole, etc. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.18


BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. HISTORY OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO. San Francisco: 1889.


BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. San Francisco: 1889-91. 7 vols, 8vo.


BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. HISTORY OF THE PACIFIC STATES OF NORTH AMERICAN. Vol. 10: North Mexican States. Vol. 1 . San Francisco, 1883. ¶ Chapters 4, 10, 11 & 16 re Imperial County.


BANHAM, Peter Reyner. SCENES IN AMERICA DESERTA. Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, 1982. 8vo, vii, 228pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition


BANKS, Jimmy & John E. Babcock. CORRALLING THE COLORADO, The First Fifty Years of the Lower Colorado River Authority. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 1988.


BANKS, L.A. “Buzz.” POLICING THE OLD MOJAVE DESERT. (Victorville: the Author), (1994). 8vo, 127pp, title vignette, b/w photo-illus. throughout. White wrappers, lettered in black with silhouette profile vignette. ¶ Only Edition of this colorful account. Former California Highway Patrol officer “Buzz” Banks describes the early days of the Patrol in and around Victorville beginning in the late 1930s. Intriguing chapter headings include: “Deserts Seem to Develop Unusual People,” “Judge Roy Bean Would Have Loved Victorville,” “Uncommon Drunks I Have Met - and Had to Arrest,” and “Victorville, a Wartime Peyton Place.”


(Banning). AND IT CAME TO PASS, A Story of Banning. (Banning: Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, Banning Branch), [n.d. ca. 1950].


(Banning, Phineas). KRYTHE, Maymie. PORT ADMIRAL - Phineas Banning 1830-1885. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1957. 8vo, xvi, 251, (3)pp, 12 b/w illus. ¶ Limited to 1000 copies. Special Publication No. 28.


(Banning, Phineas). YOCH, James J. ON THE GOLDEN SHORE. Phineas Banning in Southern California 1851-1885 Wilmington: Banning Residence Museum, 2002.


BANNING, William and George Hugh Banning. SIX HORSES. New York, (1930). 8vo, 410pp, illus. with photographs and engravings throughout. ¶ Adams, Six Guns, 134. Life and Literature of the Southwest p.78, Paher 74. An excellent account of the early stage coach business and travel in California.


BARROWS, David Prescott. ETHNO-BOTANY OF THE COAHUILLA INDIANS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Chicago: 1900. ¶ First Edition of the first anthropological study of the Cahuilla tribe of Indians who lived at Agua Calinente, later called Palm Springs. “Without question this Barros monography is one of the most imformative ofthe writings about the Cahuilla” (Harry James). Includes general description of the entire Colorado Desert. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.19. Reprinted by AMS Press, and again by the Malki Museum in 1967.


BARROWS, David Prescott. “The Desert of Colorado.” [In:] Land of Sunshine, November, 1900. Pp.312-323 illus. ¶ “As in many of these early articles, age is the most commendable factor. Little, if any, new material is introduced, although we do catch intimate glimpses of the route stretching from Indio to the San Gorgonio Pass, as Barrows traveled it in 1897” (Edwards p.20).


BARTLETT, John Russell. PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF EXLORATION AND INCIDENTS in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihuahua, Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, During the Years 1850, ‘51, ’52, and ’53. New York: Appleton, 1854. 2 vols, 8vo, xxii, 506; xvii, 624pp, with 2 folding frontispieces, large folding map of the US & Mexican border area, 13 tinted lithograph plates, 29 full-page woodcuts, and many smaller text cuts throughout. Original publisher’s brown blindstamped cloth. ¶ First Edition of a key record of travel and exploration in the Southwest. The Boundary Commission expedition departed in September 1850 and spent nearly three years traveling throughout the Southwest in an effort to determine the border between the United States and Mexico which had been left indefinite by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican War. Bartlett’s work remains one of the most accurate accounts of the region and the illustrations include some of the best depictions of the area. The bibliographers record different numbers of illustrations and plates for the first edition and note differences between the printed lists of illustrations included in the two volumes and the plates that were actually published. California desert matrial is found in Ch. XXVI “San Diego to Alamo Mucho. Abbey 658. Cowan p.36. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.20. Flake 325. Howes B-201. Powell, Southwestern Century, 9. Streeter 173. Wagner-Camp 234:1. Wheat, Gold Regions, 252. The first edition appeared in both one and two volume issues. Reprinted Chicago: Rio Grande Press, 1965.


BAXTER, Don J. GATEWAYS TO CALIFORNIA. 1968. 4to ¶ Compiled from articles in P.G. and E. Progress. Describes some 30 passes, including the Tejon, the San Carlos and Warners, Cajon, Walker Pass, and the San Gorgonio Pass. “This is an attractive book, with much historic information of interest and value p[acked into its 47 pages” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p. 21).


BEALE, Carl H. THE EARTHQUAKE IN THE IMPERIAL VALLEY, CALIFORIA. June 22, 1915. 149pp, photo. illustrations. Wrappers.


(Beale, Edward). BONSAL, Stephen. EDWARD FITZGERALD BEALE, A Pioneer in the Path of Empire, 1822-1903. New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1912. 8vo, 312pp, frontisportrait, 17 illus. mostly after period lithographs. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. Edward Fitzgerald Beale fought with the army at San Pasqual, was a courier across the country six times from 1847-1853, surveyed routes and built wagon roads to the West, brought the first gold from Calfironia to the East, was Superintendent of Indian Affairs for California and Nevada, and suggested the infamous camel trains to the War Department (cf. chapter titled “The Forgotten Camel Corps.”) Cowan p.62. Howes B-608.


BEALE, Edwin F. WAGON ROAD - Ft Smith to Colorado River. 36th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Executive Document No. 42. Washington 91pp, folding map showing the route of E.F. Beale from Fort Smith, Arkansaw to Alburquerque New Mexico in 1858-9. ¶ Cf. Howes B272; Wagner-Camp 350.


(Beale). HEAP, Gwinn Harris. CENTRAL ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC from the Valley of the Mississippi to California: Journal of the Expedition of E.F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California and Gwinn Harris Heap, From Missouri to California. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1854. 8vo, 136pp, 46 unnumbered pp of ads., 13 tinted lithographs, folding map. Brown cloth, gitl & blind stamped. ¶ First Edition. In 1853 Beale and Heap traveled westward from Missouri into the American frontier under a Congressional mandate to select lands suitable for Indian reservations, eventually reaching Los Angeles. Following a route through New Mexico and Utah that had been proposed as a railroad right-of-way from the Mississippi Valley to California, their narrative contains descriptions of many previously unexplored areas. Found in the appendix is an account by Rev. James W. Brier, one of the earliest published accounts of Death Valley by a member of the emigrant party who crossed the valley in 1849. The book was reprinted by Clark in 1957 and Burr Belden reprints the Brier article in Death Valley Heroine. The rare map was issued with only a few copies. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.110-11: “Of all the journals and diaries telling of the Mojave Desert crossing, none appears comparable to the Heap in sheer readability and in picturesque descriptive quality.” Cowan p.273. Howes H-378. Sabin 31175. Wagner-Camp 235. Wheat, Transmississippi West, 808.


(Beale). MARTIN, Larry Jay. RUSH TO DESTINY. New York: bantam Books, (1992). 8vo, 390pp. ¶ First Edition of a novel based on the early life of Edward Fitzgerald Beale.


BEAN, Lowell John. MUKAT’S PEOPLE: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972. 8vo, ix, (1, map), 201pp. Cloth, black spine, reddish boards, spine stamped in red. Red printed dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. “One of the best anthropological studiesever made of an Indian tribe... based on his 15 years of work with the Cahuilla elders and his correlation of previous tribal knowledge” (Frank Boger). “Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological findings, historical documents, and the the memories of present day Cahuillas, a Shoshonean-speaking people in the interior of southern California, Mr Bean reconstructs their culture as it existed at the beginning of the Spanish period, thus adding a new dimension to the history of California” (dj notes). Reprinted Ballena Press, 1992.


BEAN, Lowell John and Harry Lawton. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE CAHUILLA INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA. Banning: Malki Museum Press, 1967. 8vo, 28pp. ¶ This compilation was first issued in the Malki edition of Barrows’ The Ethnology of the Cahuilla Indians and is here expanded.


BEAN, Lowell John and Harry Lawton. A Preliminary Reconstruction of Aboriginal Agricultural Technology among the Cahuilla. [In:] The Indian Historian, 1(5): 18-24, 29.


BEAN, Lowell John and Harry Lawton. CAHUILLA INDIANS OF SOUTERN CALIFORNIA. Banning: Malki Museum Press, 1965. 8vo, ¶ Malki Museum Brochure No. 1. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.21.


BEAN, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel. TEMALPAKH (from the Earth). Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Banning: Malki Museum Press, 1972.


BEAN, Lowell John; Frank W. Porter; Lisa J. Bourgeault. CAHUILLA. Langhorne, Pennsylvania: Chelsea House Pub, 1988. 4tp. 112pp. ¶ First Edition. “The Cahuilla of southern California live in a region of mountains as high as 11,000 feet above sea level and desert as low as 273 feet below. In the early 19th century, Spanish missions introduced Catholicism to the Cahuillas and taught them ranching and other skills. As they lost choice land to newcomers, the Cahuillas learned Spanish and, later, English, and found employment on settlers\' farms and ranches. Today, many Cahuillas live on reservations, including one in the city of Palm Springs, which they had known as the place of the hot medicine waters. They have recorded their traditional stories and songs and continue to practice important ceremonies and customs even as they have adjusted to a new way of life.”


BEAN, Lowell John & Sylvia Brakee Vane. CALIFORNIA INDIANS: Primary Resources. Ramona: Ballena Press, (1977). 8vo, 227pp. ¶ A bibliographical guide to mss, documents, artifacts, serials, and illustrations relative to native Californians.


BEAN, Lowell John; Sylvia Brakke Vane, and Jackson Young. THE CAHUILLA LANDSCAPE. The Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains. Menlo Park: Ballena Press, (1991). 4to, vi, 116pp, frontisportrait, 6 color plates, 11 maps, b/w text illus. Photo-illus. wrappers, lettered in white. ¶ First Printing. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No.37.


BEATTIE, George W. CALIFORNIA’S UNBUILT MISSIONS. Spanish Plans for an Inland Chain. [No place: Published by the Author], 1930. Thin 8vo, photos throughout, folding map at rear. Dark blue cloth. ¶ First Edition of an important book describing the Asistencias of Santa Ysabel, San Antonio de Pala, and San Bernardino. Edwards, Desert Treasure, 6.


BEATTIE, George W. “Development of Travel Between Southern Arizona and Los Angeles.” [In:] Historical Society of Southern California Annual, Vol. XIII, Part II, pp.228-257. 1926. ¶ “The purpose of this article is to prepare a detailed tracing of the development of travel routes through the Colorado desert into the San Bernardino area. Emphasis is placed upon the Bradshaw Stage route. This is an early and important historical item” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.22).


BEATTIE, George W. “Reopening the Anza Road.” [In:] Pacific Historical Review II, pp.52-71. 1933. ¶ “In this article Mr Beattie describes the several attempts to reopen the route established by Anza in 1774, and abandoned in 1781 because of the hostility of the Yuma Indians” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.22.


BEATTIE, George William. ORIGIN AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF WATER RIGHTS IN THE EAST SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY. Redlands: San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District, 1951. 8vo, (4), 70pp, folding map, portrait of the author. ¶ Bulletin No. 4. Supplemented by Horace P. Hinckley and Jeffrey J. Predergast and Edward Fitzgerald Dibble.


BEATTIE, George William. San Bernardino County Landmarks and Historical Points of Interest. 8 volumes. Unpublished manuscript, no date.


BEATTIE, George William. “San Bernardino Valley before the Americans Came.” [In:] California Historical Society Quarterly, 12, 111-125. 1933.


BEATTIE, George William and Helen Pruitt Beattie. HERITAGE OF THE VALLEY: San Bernardino’s First Century. With a Foreword by Henry R. Wagner. Pasadena: San Pasqual Press, 1939. 8vo, xxvi, 459pp. plates, photos, illus, folding map. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. signed by both of the authors on the half-title. “Every once-in-so-often a great book makes its appearance. Beattie’s Heritage is one of our truly great books on California, and its demonstrated value has already become cumulative in the scope of its appeal. Insofar as it is possible to achieve a truly developed work on a given subject, Heritage of the Valley has - I believe - accomplished just such a desideratum. Here is an account of San Bernardino and its surrounding territory - desert and valley - with complete utilization of every available contribution of source data. Among the more important chapters are those concerning the Mormon venture into San Bernardino and early travel through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Pass routes” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.23). Adams, Six-Guns, 175.


BEATTIE, George William &Helen Pruitt Beattie. HERITAGE OF THE VALLEY: San Bernardino’s First Century. Oakland: Biobooks, 1951. 8vo, xxix, 459pp. Blue and orange cloth. ¶ Reprint of the first edition.. Edwards p.23.


(Beaumont). BEAUMONT, Formerly San Gorgonio. What Is It? Where Is It? 1886 ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.8.


BECKER, Stephen & Jeffrey Birmingham (eds.). THE SAN JACINTOS: A History and Natural History. Riverside: Historical Commission Press, 1981


BEE, Robert L. THE YUMA, Indians of North America. New York: Chelsea House, 1989.


BEIDLER, Peter G. FIG TREE JOHN, An Indian in Fact and Fiction. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1977. ¶ An analysis of Edwin Corle’s 1935 novel Fig Tree John, combining anthropological, historical and literary research. The real fig Tree John was Juanito Razon, fig Tree being derived from the many fig trees palnted around his home on the west bank of the Salton Sea. When he died in 1927, his son claimed he was 136 years old.


BELDEN, L. Burr. DEATH VALLEY HEROINE and Source Accounts of the 1849 Travelers. San Bernardino: Inland Printing & Engraving, (1954). 8vo, 78pp. ¶ First Edition, one of 250 copies. The heroine of the title was Juliet Brier, wife of the Rev. Brier and mother of three small boys, who despite her frailty was a tower of strength during the worst parts of the trip. This book includes Juliet account of Christmas in Death Valley, the first known published account by her husband, and recollections of her sons, as well as accounts of Thomas Shannon and John Rogers and a letter written by Manly in reply to the young Brier’s account. the first 18 pages give a condensed account of the Death Valley venture of 1849. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.23.


BELDEN, L. Burr. DEATH VALLEY TO YOSEMITE: Frontier Mining Camps and Ghost Towns: The Men, the Women, Their Mines and Stories.


BELDEN, L. Burr. FORGOTTEN ARMY FORTS OF THE MOJAVE. Los Angeles: the Westerners, (1964). An excerpt from Brand Book, 11.


BELDEN, L. Burr. GOODBYE, DEATH VALLEY! The 1849 Jayhawker Escape. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, 1956. 8vo, 63pp, frontispiece. Orig. pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Burr traces the largest of several parties who became mired in Death Valley in December, 1849. Two members of this party, the Jayhawkers, kept diaries of their trip which have been preserved. They were consulted by the author along with a scrapbook and numerous letters in the Huntington Library. This work includes a list of Jayhawkers. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.24: “Mr Belden, perhaps our foremost living authority on early California history as it relates to the region in and around the San Bernardino area, has authored two of the relatively few outstanding books to be written thus far on the subject of Death Valley... Death Valley Heroine is the other.”


BELDEN, L. Burr. MINES OF DEATH VALLEY. Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1966. 8vo, 71pp, photo. illus. throughout. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition. “A delightful book, this. Good reading. Dependable information” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.24-25).


BELDEN, L. Burr. OLD STOVEPIPE WELLS. San Bernardino: Death Valley ‘49ers Encampment, 1968.


BELDEN, L. Burr. THE MISSISSIPPIANS AND THE GEORGIANS OF THE DEATH VALLEY 1849 PARTY. California: The Death Valley Forty-Niners, 1975. 12pP. Mustard cloth boards.


BELDEN, L. Burr. THE WADE STORY. San Bernardino: Inland Printing and Engraving, 1957.


BELDEN, L. Burr & Ardis Manly Walker. SEARLES LAKE BORAX, 1862-1962. Death Valley ‘49ers, 1962. 38pp.


BELL, Horace. ON THE OLD WEST COAST. Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger... Edited by Lanier Bartlett. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1930. ¶ “An amazing book. It remained in ms. for twelve years after the author’s death. there may been a reason. It is a startling expose of conditions and people of old Los Angeles. Some of the chapters were evidently written by Bell with his tongue in his cheek, but it contains historical facts not to be found elsewhere in print”(Layne, Books of the Los Angeles District, 3).“Of desert interest are his chapters -”Spit in the Mouth of Hell;” Oranges on Joshua Trees;” “In Praise of the Mormons;” and “Pegleg Smith, the Death Valley Party and John Goler’s Mine” (Edwards, The Enduring Desert, p.25).


BELL, Horace. ON THE OLD WEST COAST. Being Further Reminiscences of a Ranger... Edited by Lanier Bartlett. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1930). 8vo, xiv, (2), 336pp, frontisportrait, 12 b/w hors-texte plates, b/w text illus. and manuscript facsimiles. Publ. black cloth, yellow paper title onlays, lettered in black, at upper board and spine, top edge stained red, dust jacket, illus. endpapers. ¶ Reprint.


BELL, Horace. REMINISCENCES OF A RANGER or Early Times in Southern California. Los Angeles: Yarnell, Caystile & Mathes, 1881. ¶ First Edition of the first book written, printed and bound in Los Angeles. “The character of Horace Bell would seem essentially to epitomize the spirit of early Los Angeles. He contrived to live more intimately, and more romantically, in the atmosphere of his times, than perhaps any other person of that day. A little garrulous on occasions, never entirely reticent with respect to his own personal exploits, old Major Bell - from first to last - held the spotlight of interest in that day when Los Angeles was young.” (Edwards pp.25-26).
Chapter 28 gives an intimate portrait of Bill Bradshaw, founder of the Bradshaw Stage Line. Cowan p.44. “The most readable historical narrative of early southern California” (Howes B-325). Powell, Land of Fact, 2. Zamorano 80, 5.


BELL, Horace. REMINISCENCES OF A RANGER or Early Times in Southern California. Los Angeles: Primavera Press, 1933. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Handsome edition printed at the Lakeside Press.


BELL, William. NEW TRACKS IN NORTH AMERICA, A Journal of Travel and Adventure Whilst Engaged in a Survey for a Soutern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean during 1867-8. London: Chapman & Hall, 1869. 2 vols, lxv, (3), 236; vii, (1), 322pp plus 2 tinted maps (one folding), 24 plates (mostly tinted lithographs). ¶ First Edition. Bell joined the surveying expedition organized by the Kansas Pacific Railway Company in 1867 to find a southern railroad route to the Pacific Coast through Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California. Their route through the Southwest is traced on the large folding map. The second volume includes a discussion of the Pacific railway and a botanical report by C.C. Parry. Cowan p.45. Howes B330. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.272 (noting only the reprint). Flake 393. Paher 114.


[BENJAMIN, Edward H., ed.]. CALIFORNIA MINES AND MINERALS. Published by the California Miners\' Association under the direction of Edward H. Benjamin, Secretary, for the California Meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. San Francisco: California Miners’ Association, 1899. 8vo, (vi), 450 , (2), xlviii(ads)pp, 3 folding maps, 2 folding plans, and many plates and text illustrations mostly after photographs. Original 3/4 maroon morocco over maroon pebbled cloth, spine gilt lettered between gilt-ruled raised bands, marbled endpapers. ¶ First Edition of a monumental overview of the history of and current activities in all phases of mining in California, with chapters on each appropriate county, technical development, plans and prospects, etc. This work was dedicated to the members of the American Institute of Mining Engineers as a souvenir of their visit to California, September and October, 1899. Cowan p.46.


BENNETT, G.G. & Joe Doctor. THE LAST OF THE 20-MULE TEAM FREIGHTERS (Death Valley). Death Valley 49er’s, Keepsake No. 29, 1989. 8vo, 24pp.


BENSON, Lyman and Robert Darrow. MANUAL OF SOUTHWEST DESERT TREES AND SHRUBS. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1944. 8vo, 411pp. Cream wrappers. ¶ First Edition of a thorough description of desert trees and shrubs. A second edition appeared in 1954 and the third and greatly expanded edition in 1981 with 95 color plates, 424 photographs and drawings and 252 maps.


BENTON, F. Weber. THE DESERT: A Graphic Story in Verse of the California Sea of Sand. Los Angeles: Benton Publishing Co., 1928. ¶ Illustrated and printed from plates reproduced fromoriginal, ahnd lettering in artistic chirography, on sheets, all of wood from the desert Yucca tree, and bound together with Raffia strings. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.27.


BERGLAND, Eric. PRELIMINARY REPORT UPON THE OPERATIONS OF PARTY No. 3, California Section, Season of 1875-76 with a View to Determine the Feasibility of Diverting the Colorado River for Purposes of Irrigation. Annual Report Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian for 1876, Appendix B (pp.109-1250; ¶ Also in Annual Report Chief of Engineers for 1876, Part, 3, pp.329-345, both with general map and map of “depressed area in the Colorado Desert.”


BERGLAND, Lt Eric. “Report.” [In:] Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year 1876, Part III, Appendix JJ.


BIAGIOTTI, Aldo P. ESCAPE FROM DEATH VALLEY: A Tale of Two Burros. 8vo, 16pp.


BIEBER, Ralph P., ed. SOUTHERN TRAILS TO CALIFORNIA IN 1849. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1937. 8vo, cloth. ¶ First Edition. “This book, in addition to Dr Bieber’s informative introduction, contains several important journals of early desert travelers. An important item in any well balanced collection, this book is indispensable to our Colorado Desert interest. Its included Diaries and Journals provide a significant contribution to desert literature” (Edwards, Oases, p.86). The section dealing with the Colorado Desert crossing is found pp.226-44. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.27 & 69. Kurutz 556. Vol. 5 of Clark’s Southwest Historical Series published in 12 volumes from 1931 to 1943 in an edition of 866 sets (see Howes S-791; Clark & Brunet 21).


BIGGERS, Earle Derr. THE CHINESE PARROT. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, (1926) 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. ¶ The second Charlie Chan mystery, this set in California. As he arrives at a lonely ranch house to deliver the Jordan pearls to their new owner, Charlie Chan hears a parrot cry, Help! Murder! Put Down that Gun! Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.28: “I regard this as one of the best of the exciting Charlie Chan mysteries. The yarn is written in a manner calculated to give one the feel of the desert.” Baird & Greenwood 255. The first American was Bobbs Merrill, 1926 and the London was reissued by Readers Services, 1927 and 1928. Early editions in dust jackets are scarce.


BLACKBURN, Edith. ONE BIT OF LAND (A Story of Imperial Valley). New York: Aladdin Books, 1955.


BLACKMAR, Frank W. SPANISH COLONIZATION IN THE SOUTHWEST. Baltimore: Publication Agency of the Johns Hopkins University, 1890. 8vo, 79pp. ¶ First Edition. Cowan p.55.


BLACKMAR, Frank W. SPANISH INSTITUTIONS OF THE SOUTHWEST. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. 1891 8vo, xxvi, 353pp, front, map, plans. ¶ First Edition. Cowan p.56. Howes B-495.


BLAKE, William P. “Ancient Lake in the Colorado Desert.” [In:] American Journal of Sciences (2nd Series) 17, pp.435-438. 1854. 8vo, whole issue in orig. grey-pink wrappers. ¶ An important description of the San Gorgonio Pass by one of the first to explore the region, apparently reprinted from the Commercial Advertiser. Blake also gives a report on the Quicksilver Mines of Almaden, California, from a letter to J.D. Dana.


BLAKE, William P. ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF THE PRINCIPAL MINERAL SPECIES Hitherto Recognized in California, and the Adjoining States and Territories; being a Report to the California State Boards of Agriculture. Sacramento: Printed for the Author, 1866. 8vo, 31, (1, errata)pp. Printed self-wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Cowan p.56.


BLAKE, William P. REMARKS UPON THE GEOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA. Washington, 1855.


BLAKE, William P. REPORT OF A GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE IN CALIFORNIA, Made in Connection with the Surveys of Routes for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, under the Command of Leiut. R.S. Williamson, Carps Top. Eng’rs, in 1853. New York: Bailliere, 1858. 4to, xvi, 370, xiii pp, plates, maps. ¶ A separate edition of the report in Pacific Railroad Survey Reports, Vol. 5, part. 2. A number of extra copies were made for Prof. Blake and from them this volume was specially prepared. Cowan (1914) p.19. Edwards, Enduring desert, p.29: “...perhaps the most extensive and the most important portion of the entire Report as contianed in Vol. V.”


BLAKE, William P. TOMBSTONE AND ITS MINES: A Report on the Past and Present Conditions of the Mines of Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona to the Development Company of America. New York, 1902. 8vo, 83pp and 6 full page photographic illustrations. Wrappers, paper cover label.


(Blake, William P.) DILL, DAVID B. “William Phipps Blake: Yankee Gentleman and Pioneer Geologist of the Far West.” [In:] Journal of Arizona History 32, pp.385-412. 1991.


BLAKE, William P., Sc.D. Territorial Geologist. SKETCHES OF PIMA COUNTY. Its Mining Districts, Minerals, Climate, Agriculture, and Other Resources. Tucson, AZ: Chamber of Commerce, 1910. 8vo, 45, (1, table)pp. Printed wrappers. ¶ First Edition of a scarce ephemerum from the days of Arizona Territory. Pima County, established 1864, was the oldest of 13 original counties in Arizona Territory.


BLOCK, Dr Charles; with Catherine Rips & Gregory Andrade. CANYON PALMS, A Desert Tribute / The Block Mansion / Palm Springs, California Palm Springs: Charles Block, 1989. 4to, 64pp, color plates and plans.


BOELTER, Homer H. and E.I. Edwards. DESERT SANCTUARY. Los Angeles: Holmer Boelter, 1965. (12)pp. ¶ First Edition, with 5 double-page and 3 single-page lithographs of desert scenes, with narrative by desert bibliographer E.I. Edwards.


BOGERT, Frank M. VIEW FROM THE SADDLE, Characters Who Crossed My Path. Palm Springs: ETC, 8vo, wrappers. ¶ First Edition of Mayor Bogert’s reminiscences of Palm Spring’s personalities he has known over his 80 years in the desert.


BOGERT, Mayor Frank M. PALM SPRINGS FIRST HUNDRED YEARS. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Heritage Associates, (1987). 4to, 287pp, Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, index. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition.


BOGERT, Mayor Frank M. PALM SPRINGS FIRST HUNDRED YEARS. Palm Springs, 2003. 4to, 287pp, Illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs, index. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ New edition, with a supplementary chapter.


BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. SPANISH EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOUTHWEST, 1542-1706. ¶ First Edition, treating the expeditions of Cabrillo, Vizcaino, Rodriguez, Espejo, Onate, Bosque-Larios, De Leon-Massanet, etc. Howes B-588. Not in Cowan.


BONKER, Frances & Dean John James Thornber. THE SAGE OF THE DESERT, and Other Cacti, Studies of that Fantastic Clan, the Cactus of the Desert, and other Interesting and Peculair Desert Growths. Boston: The Stratford Co., (1930). 8vo, 106pp, illustrated. Brown cloth. ¶ First Edition, inscribed “With the regards of the Author, John James Thornber.” With an introduction by Harold Bell Wright.


(Borax). 20-MULE TEAM - and a Sketch of Its Famous Driver: Borax Bill. Pacific Coast Borax compnay: [n.d., ca. 1900]. 8vo, 16pp, 2 photos. Wrappers. ¶ “This item is impressively written and supplies carefully assembled information concerning the 20-mule Borax Teams,, with particular attention to the mules, the wagons, the jerk-line, and the driver” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p187.)


(Borax). OLD RANGER\'S YARNS OF DEATH VALLEY. Pacific Coast Borax Co., (1933).


(Borax). THE STORY OF BORAX. United States Borax & Chemical Corporation.


(Borax). GERSTLEY, James M. BORAX YEARS: SOME RECOLLECTIONS 1933-1961 The Story of Pacific Coast Borax Company and United Stated Borax & Chemical Corporation United States Borax Company, 8vo, cloth, dust jacket.


BOSCANA, Father Geronimo CHINIGCHINICH: A Revised and Annotated Version of Father Geronimo Boscana’s Historical Account of the Belief, Usages, Customs, and Extravagances of the Indians of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, called the Acagchemem Tribe. Santa Ana: Fine Arts Press, 1933. 4to, orig. slipcase. ¶ Limited to 500 copies, printed by Thomas Williams at the Fine Arts Press, signed by both Williams & Jean Goodwin, the illustrator. Reissued by Biobooks in 1947 together with Robinson’s Life in California.


BOURNE, A. Ross. SOME MAJOR ASPECTS OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PALM SPRINGS Between 1880 and 1938. And in Addition a Continuation of the Historical Changes in the Indian Land Problem and Four Cultural Institutions Until 1948. Los Angeles: Occidental College, June, 1953. ¶ Unpublished thesis.


BOWERS, Stephen. A REMARKABLE VALLEY AND AN INTERESTING TRIBE OF INDIANS. San Buena Ventura, 1888. 8vo, 8pp. Wrappers, rear cover absent.


BOWERS, Stephen. PALM SPRINGS AND THE INDIANS. 1965.


BOWERS, Stephen. RECONNAISSANCE OF THE COLORADO DESERT MINING DISTRICT. Sacramento: A. J. Johnston, Superintendent State Printing, 1901. 19pp, text illustrations. Wrappers. ¶ Only Edition. “Material covered includes: Coyote Wells, Carrizo Creek, Fish Creek and Seventeen Palms Springs. These comprise the territory that had, at that time, been located for petroleum” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.31).


BOYD, William Harland. A CENTENNIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE HISTORY OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. Selected and Annotated Books and Pamphlets. Bakersfield: Kern County Historical Society & the County of Kern, 1966. 8vo, 49pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ With “A Synoptic History of Kern County” by Ralph F. Kreiser.


BRAUNTON, Ernest. “Palm springs Before the Dudes Came. [In:] Westways, November, 1934. ¶ A history of early Palm Springs with an account of the village of Palmdale (now the site of Smoke Tree Ranch) that once rivalled Palm Springs.


BRET, Hugh. THUNDERBIRD COUNTRY CLUB. Palm Springs: Colorgraphics, Inc., 1988. 4to, (4), 128pp, illus. Cloth.


BRIGANDI, Phil. TEMECULA, At the Crossroads of History. Encinitas: Heritage Media, 1998.


BRIGHT, Marjorie Belle. NELLIE’S BOARDINGHOUSE: A Dual Biography of Nellie Coffman and Palm Springs. Palm Springs: ETC Publications, 1981 8vo, vi, 247pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. In 1909 Dr Harry and Nellie Coffman started a sanitarium in Palm Springs for consumptive patients which soon became The Desert Inn, a world-renowned resort catering to the wealthy wintering in the Desert.


BROOKS, Thomas W. BY BUCKBOARD TO BEATTY : THE CALIFORNIA-NEVADA DESERT IN 1886.


BROWN, John, Jr. and James Boyd. HISTORY OF SAN BERNARDINO AND RIVERSIDE COUNTIES. Chicago: Lewis Publ. Co., 1922. 4to, illustrated with engraved portraits, half-tones, etc. Original gilt stamped blue cloth, marbled endpapers and edges. ¶ First Edition, Brown writing of San Bernardino County and Boyd of Riverside County. Includes account of Palm springs, Banning, and other desert localities. Also issued by Western Historical Association in the same year. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.34.


BROWN, John S. ROUTES TO DESERT WATERING PLACES IN THE SALTON SEA REGION, California. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1920. 8vo, v, (1), 86pp, photographic plates, 4 folding maps (2 bound in, 2 laid in rear pocket). Orig. printed wrappers. ¶ First Edition, with descriptions and maps of the region, road logs, etc. and with hints for travelers (by horse or by auto). Among the most delightful of government publications, the Routes to Desert Watering Places evolved from the desperate need for wells, springs, or natural tanks by the desert travelers. Department of the Interior and United States Geological Survey: Water-Supply Paper 490-A, prepared in cooperation with the Department of Engineering of the State of California. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.35.


BROWN, John S. THE SALTON SEA REGION, CALIFORNIA. A Geographic, Geologic, and Hydrologic Reconnaissance, with a Guide to the Desert Watering Places. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 497. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1923. 8vo, 292pp, 3 folding maps in pocket at rear, 34 plates and sketch maps. Orig. printed wrappers. ¶ First Edition of an interesting and informative guide to the Colorado Desert, with routes of travel and watering places, including Palm Springs, Jacumba Springs, Fish Springs and Agua Caliente Springs. “To students of desert literature the Brown Report is of major importance because of the diversification and the accuracy of its content. A careful study is prepared of the historical background of the entire Colorado Desert area; portions of the books are devoted to the climate, flora, fauna, and physiography of the region; sections are included on the geology, hydrology, and mineral resources, and pages 129-280 are given over to a detailed presentation of the several routes of desert travel. In this latter portion may be found valuable data on the Buttefield and Bradshaw trails, the Borrego, the sand dunes, and the Imperial and Coachella Valleys: (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.34-35). “Regarded as the standard work on this subject” (Farquhar, Colorado River, 91).


BROWNE, J. Ross. ADVENTURES IN THE APACHE COUNTRY: A Tour through Arizona and Sonora, with Notes on the Silver Regions of Nevada. New York: Harper Brothers, 1869. 8vo, 535pp, 155 woodcut illus after drawings by the author. Orig. plum cloth, gilt, beveled edges. ¶ First Edition of a Southwest classic, filled with excellent engravings of scenery and desert mining town life. Browne traveled from Los Angeles with an Indian agent in 1863 and his articles, first published in Harper’s in 1864-65, were gathered into a book five years later. His observations on the silver mines south of Tucson, of Fort Yuma, of the Yuma and Apache tribes, the Gila River, early Tucson, the Pueblo of Tubac, Magdalena, the town of Santa Cruz, and much more make this a most valuable record of the period. His report of the Oatman family massacre, which is also reprinted here, includes information obtained from first-hand sources. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.35-6. Farquhar 26. Field 197. Howes B-875. Munk p.40. Sabin 8656. Wagner-Camp 412 (note).


BROWNE, J. Ross. RESOURCES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. A Statistical and Descriptive Summary of the Mines and Minerals, Climate, Topography, Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Productions, of the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains.. With a Sketch of the Settlement and Exploration of Lower California. New York: D. Appleton, 1869. 8vo, 674, 200pp. ¶ First Edition thus. Issued originally as a government document, this edition was also issued by Bancroft in San Francisco. The sketch of Lower California was written by Alexander S. Taylor. Cowan p.79. Cf Paher 223.


BROWNE, J. Ross & and James W. Taylor. REPORT UPON THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867. 8vo, 360pp. ¶ First Edition, House Exec. Doc. 29. Of desert interest is an article by Dr. John A. Veatch (pp.179-187) entitled “Discovery of Borax in California.” H.H. Bancroft printed an edition in 1868 with 674pp. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.36.


BRUMGARDT, John R. FROM SONORA TO SAN FRANCISCO BAY: The Expeditions of Juan Bautista de Anza, 1774-1976. Riverside: 1976.


BRUMGARDT, John R. & Larry L. Bowles. PEOPLE OF THE MAGIC WATERS, The Cahuilla Indians of Palm Springs. Illustrated by Dorothy M. Bowles. Palm Springs: ETC, 1981. 8vo, (vi), 122pp, line drawings in text. Illus. cloth. ¶ First Edition of an excellent introduction to the Agua Caliente tribe of the Cahuilla who inhabited the Palm Springs area for centuries before the white men arrived.


BURDICK, Arthur J. MYSTIC MID-REGION. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904. 8vo, ix, 237, (2 ads)pp, frontis, 54 plates (many from photographs. Pictorial cloth, in the original dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of one of the classics of the desert, with early and capable descriptions of desert plants, animals, Indians, burros, mining, etc. “A book whose substance in entirely devoted to the California deserts... one we may safely assume to be a pioneer in its field” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.37). In Desest Treasure Edwards ranked Burdick togeth with Jamesw, Austin, and Manly in the quartet of great desert books.


BURKE, Albert E. THE COACHELLA VALLEY: A Geographical Survey. Los Angeles: UCLA, 1948. 57 leaves. ¶ Unpublished thesis in motion picture script form.


BURKE, Tony. PALM SPRINGS, Why I Love You. A Chronicle of the Emergence of “The Village” into Palm Springs... Playground of the Stars. Palm Springs: Palmesa, 1978. 4to, 268pp, photo illus. throughout. Black cloth, gilt title. ¶ First Edition of personality-oriented sketch of “America’s Foremost Desert Resort.”


BURNETT, W.R. ROMELLE. New York: Knopf, 1946 8vo, (8), 254, (1)pp. Blue-grey cloth, illustrated dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. Set in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, “A female jazz singer in a Vine Street bar marries a stranger from a decadent Southern family who turns out to be neurotic criminal” (Baird & Greenwood 362). The fifteenth novel by the author of Little Caesar, High Sierra, etc.


BURNS, Helen. SALTON SEA STORY... Thermal: the Author, 1952. 8vo, 34pp, illus. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition of an excellent account of the Salton Sea. “As one reads this fine account, it is with the sense of having gained precise information regarding the entire Salton Sea episode. Perhaps the most valuable section in the book is the one captioned ‘Appendix. Facts and Figures’” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.37. “An excellent account of the Salton Sea” (Edwards, Oases, p.87). Printed by the Desert Magazine Press.


BURNS, Helen. SALTON SEA STORY... Thermal: [the author], 1958. 8vo, 34pp, photo. illus. Illustrated wrappers, some damp crinkling. ¶ Sixth edition; printed by the Desert Magazine Press. “An excellent account of the Salton Sea” (Edwards, Oases, p.87).


BUTCHER, Russell D. THE DESERT... Introduction by Morrs K. Udall... New York: Viking Press, (1976). 4to, 128pp, frontispiece, 69 color photo-illus. (many full-page), b/w text vignettes. Publ. quarter brown cloth over boards, dust jacket. Fine in like dj. ¶ First Edition of this generously illustrated work.


BYNON, A.A. HISTORY AND DIRECTORY OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY... Riverside: Riverside Daily Press, 1893-95. ¶ One of the rarest California county histories. Not in Cowan. OCLC notes only one copy, at UC Riverside. Reprinted in 1992.


BYNUM, Lindley. THE RECORD BOOK, Rancho Santa Ana del Chino. Transcribed and Edited by Lindley Byum. Los Angeles: Vocational Printing Class of John C. Fremont High School, 1935. 55pp. ¶ “The Record Book served as a guest register at Isaac Williams’ ranch. Many of the desert travelers - of both the Colorado and Mohave deserts - register their names, and often their comments, in this interesting old book” (Edwards, Oases, p.65). First published by the Historical Society of Southern California in 1934.


CABALLERIA, Father Juan. HISTORY OF SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY, From the Padres to the Pioneers, 1810-1851... Illustrated by Constance Farris. (San Bernardino: Times Index Press), (1902). Sm 4to, (9)-130pp, b/w illus. throughout. Charcoal gray wrappers. ¶ First Edition of an illustrated history of San Bernardino Valley with much information on Spanish settlement and local Indians. Includes a short lexicon of the Gauchama Indian language. Caballeria y Collell was a Santa Barbara priest who also wrote a history of Santa Barbara. Cowan p.91. Howes C1.


CAINE, Ralph L. LEGENDARY AND GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF LOST DESERT GOLD... Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, [n.d., ca. 1955]. 8vo, 71pp, maps, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ Interesting mix of geology and fable: An Indian Legend and Imperial Valley; Pegleg\'s Gold; Yaqui Indian\'s Gold; Hank\'s Lost Mine; Portuguese Prospector; Fault Block Movement; Unusual Rocks in the District; Mud Pots and Carbondioxide Wells; Badlands of Ocotillo; and much more. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.39.


(California geology). CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY. Geologic Map of California: Salton Sea Sheet... San Francisco: 1967.


(California Outdoors Magazine). CALIFORNIA OUTDOORS AND IN, Vol. 18, No. 3. Los Angeles: Jaffe and Jaffe, 1938. 4to, 36pp (including covers), b/w illus. throughout. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ This issue is illustrated on the front cover with a sunrise view of Mount San Jacinto by Gordon Coutts. The smart set lounge and recreate throughout.


CALLAHAN, Robert E. HUMAN WHIRLPOOL, A Story of Wanderlust and Adventure. [Hollywood: Murray & Gee, 1946]. 8vo, 384pp, illustrated. Red cloth. Dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by the author with a small illustration to Rex Allen, the famed singing cowboy of the movies and inductee into the Cowboy Hall of Fame. The main character is lured into “a whirlpool of temptation, conflict, intrigue and adventure... lost treasure ship on the Salton Sea... graphic picture of the Indian snake dance, the founding of Palm Springs and tragedy in the opium dens of old San Francisco’s Barbary Coast” (Baird & Greenwood 385).


CALVIN, Ross. RIVER OF THE SUN: Stories of the Storied Gila. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1946. 8vo, xix, 159pp, illus. Cloth, illus dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. “The opening pages of this book contain as beautiful writing about the Arizona landscape as has been done anywhere. The story of the southern section of the state is threaded on this narrow ribbon of its most important watercourse” (Arizona 50). A handsome book, designed by Carl Hertzog (Lowman 35).


CAMERON, Constance). THE WEST POND REPORT, Archaeological Investigations at SBr-363c Soda Springs (Zzyzx) California. Fullerton: Cal. State Univ. Museum of Anthropology, 1984. ¶ Occ. Papers Arch. Research Facility Cal. State Univ. Fullerton #2.


CAMP, Charles L. DESERT RATS. Berkeley: Bancroft Library, Univ. of California Berkeley, 1966. 8vo, (6), 55pp, frontispiece. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. The term “Desert Rat” here refers to burro prospectors.


CAMPBELL, Albert H REPORT ON THE PACIFIC WAGON ROADS.
Fairfield, Washington: YE Galleon Press, 1969.


CAMPBELL, Elizabeth W. Crozer. AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TWENTY NINE PALMS REGION. With a Geologic Introduction by David Scharf and a Description of the Artifacts by Charles Avery Amsden. Los Angeles: The Southwest Museum Papers No. 7, 1931. 8vo, 93pp, 48 plates, 1 map. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Mr Walker’s introduction (pp.9-20) is a good history of Twentynine Palms. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.40.


CAMPBELL, Elizabeth W. Crozer. AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TWENTY NINE PALMS REGION... with an Introduction by Edwin F. Walker. Los Angeles: The Southwest Museum, 1931, reprinted 1963. 8vo, 93pp, whole issue in wrappers. Very good. ¶ Southwest Museum Papers no. 7, the first Contribution of the Desert Branch


CAMPBELL, Elizabeth W. Crozer. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DESERTS. Menasha, WI: Society for American Archaeology, 1936.


CAMPBELL, Elizabeth W. Crozer. THE ARCHEOLOGY OF PLEISTOCENE LAKE MOHAVE.


CAMPBELL, Elizabeth W. Crozer. THE DESERT WAS HOME. Adventures and Tribulations of a Desert Homesteader. Foreword by Lloyd Severe. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1961. 8vo, 265pp, b&w photo-illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by author. An archaeologist, Campbell filed a homestead in 1924 in the Mohave near Twentynine Palms with her desparately ill husband as a last-ditch effort to find healing in the land. At the time, Twentynine Palms was little more than a small oasis and hideout for criminals, bootleggers and social outcasts. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.40.


CAMPBELL, Elizabeth W. Crozer. THE PINTO BASIN SITE. Los Angeles: The Southwest Museum Papers No. 9, 1935. 8vo, 51pp, 15 plates, 2 folding maps. ¶ First Edition of a study of the Pinto Basin, now part of the Joshua Tree National Park. Campbell identifies the Basin as ‘an ancient aboriginal camping ground in the California desert.’ Edward, Enduring Desert, p.40.


CAMPBELL, Marius R. RECONNAISSANCE OF THE BORAX DEPOSITS OF DEATH VALLEY AND MOHAVE DESERT. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. 8vo, 23, (4)pp, tinted map of the Mojave & Death Valley. Stapled into printed wrappers. ¶ Bulletin 200, U.S. Geological Survey, Series A. Economic Geology 17.


CARR, Jim. PALM SPRINGS AND THE COACHELLA VALLEY. Text and Photographs by... (Helena, MT): American Geographic Publishing, (1989). 4to, 112pp, color and b/w illus. throughout. White boards, lettered in gilt, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition.


CARTER, Charles Franklin. SOME BY-WAYS OF CALIFORNIA. San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin, 1911. ¶ Carter (1890-1957).


(Cartography - California) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA’S GOLDEN COAST and Sunshine Empire. (Map title: Ride the Roads to Romance along the Golden Coast and thru the Sunshine Empire of Southern California.) Color pictorial / pictographic map, multiple fold as issued, 21-1/4 x 33-3/4 inches folding to 8-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches. Southern California Tourist Ass\'n. San Bernardino, 1963.


CARUTHERS, William. LOAFING ALONG DEATH VALLEY TRAILS. A Personal Narrative of People and Places. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, 1951. 8vo, 191pp, inserted b&w photographic section. Original red cloth. ¶ First Edition. “One of the top level items on Death Valley... Caruthers ushers in a resurgence of glamour as he reactivates for his readers the romantic old ghost towns of this desert’s fabulous mining era” (Edwards, Enduring Desert p. 42-43).


CARUTHERS, William. LOAFING ALONG DEATH VALLEY TRAILS. A Personal Narrative of People and Places. Shoshone: Death Valley Publ., 1951. 8vo, 191pp, 24 b&w photoplates. Green cloth, black lettered and illustrated, dust jacket. ¶ Second and slightly revised edition. Features a parade of interesting and colorful characters the author met during his twenty-five years living in “the Big Sink at the bottom of America.” “One of the top level items on Death Valley... Caruthers ushers in a resurgence of glamour as he reactivates for his readers the romantic old ghost towns of this desert’s fabulous mining era” (Edwards, Enduring Desert p. 42-43). Adams, Six-Guns 387.


CARUTHERS, William. LOAFING ALONG DEATH VALLEY TRAILS. A Personal Narrative of People and Places. Ontario: Death Valley Publishing Co., 1951. 8vo, 191pp, 47 b&w photoplates. Tan cloth, lettered and illustrated, dust jacket. ¶ Second, slightly revised edition. Features a parade of interesting and colorful characters the author met during his twenty-five years living in “the Big Sink at the bottom of America.” “One of the top level items on Death Valley... Caruthers ushers in a reswurgence of glamour as he reactivates for his readers the romantic old ghost towns of this desert’s fabulous mining era” (Edwards, Enduring Desert p. 42-43). Adams, Six-Guns 387.


CASEBIER, Dennis. GUIDE TO THE EAST MOJAVE HERITAGE TRAIL: Needles to Ivanpah. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1987. 8vo, photos and maps by B.Martin & drawings by T.Jensen. Fabricoid. Fine ¶ First Edition.


CASEBIER, Dennis. REOPENING THE MOJAVE ROAD, A Personal Narrative. Tales of the Mojave Road No. 8. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 1983. 4to, 263pp, misc b&w photo-illus and folding map. Fabricoid. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author. Limited Edition of 1250 copies.


CASEBIER, Dennis. THE BATTLE AT CAMP CADY Norco: the Author, September, 1972. 8vo, (6), 33pp, frontispiece, b/w photo- and text illus. Illus. wrappers, lettered in black. ¶ First Edition, Tales of the Mojave Road, Number Two.


CASEBIER, Dennis. THE MOJAVE ROAD. Tales of Mojave Road Number 5. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1975. 8vo, 92pp, folding map in pocket inside rear cover. Cloth. ¶ First Edition, inscribed to William Dailey “in remembrance of a pleasant afternoon of book talk at Goffs, California... 5 Sept. 2005.” The Mojave Road treats the history of the old Mojave Road from the earliest times up to 1883 when the Rail Road was built along the 35th parallel, leaving the old road virtually lost in the deserts.


CASEBIER, Dennis, and the Friends of the Mojave Road. MOJAVE ROAD GUIDE. Norco: Tales of Mojave Road Publ. Co., 1986. 232 pages. Illustrated and maps (listed), index. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4. Green marbled fabricoid, gilt stamped spine title and gilt stamped title and figure on front. There is a stamp below the publisher which has the Name and Address of the Friends. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author. Tales of Mojave Road Number 11.


CASEBIER, Dennis G. CARLETON’S PAH-UTE CAMPAIGN. Tales of the Mojave Road No. 1. Norco: Dennis G. Casebier, 1972. 8vo, 58pp, misc b&w photo-illus., map in rear pocket. Illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


CASEBIER, Dennis G. GOFFS AND ITS SCHOOLHOUSE. the Historic Cultural Center of the East Mojave Desert. Goffs: Tales of the Mojave Road, (1995). 8vo, 176pp, b/w illus. throughout. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ The schoolhouse, active from 1914 to 1937 and now completely restored, was the center of learning and social activities in the little railroad community of Goffs, halfway between Needles and Amboy. This is the story of life at Goffs, the shootouts, the railroads, National Trails Road, Route 66, mining and the restoration of the schoolhouse. Signed by the author.


CASEBIER, Dennis G. THE MOJAVE ROAD IN NEWSPAPERS. Compiled by... Tales of the Mojave Road No. 6. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 1976. 8vo, 97pp, misc b&w photo-illus. Fabricoid. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author on the title.


CASEBIER, Dennis G. and the Friends of the Mojave Road. GUIDE TO THE EAST MOJAVE HERITAGE TRAIL, Ivanpah to Rocky Ridge. Tales of the Mojave Road No. 14. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 1988. 8vo, 304pp, misc b&w and color photo-illus. Fabricoid. ¶ First Edition.


CASTETTER, Edward F. & Willis H. Bell. YUMAN INDIAN AGRICULTURE: Primitive Subsistence of the Lower Colorado and Gila Rivers. University of New Mexico Press, (1951). 8vo, xi, (3), 274pp, 8 b/w illus. (including several maps - 1 folding). Publ. light blue cloth, lettered in silver. ¶ First Edition, with extensive bibliography.


CATES, Robert. JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL MONUMENT. A Visitor’s Guide. (Chatsworth): Live Oak Press, 1984. 8vo, 100pp, frontispiece, b/w photo- and text illus., throughout, 6 maps. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


CAUGHEY, John Walton. SOUTHWEST FROM SALT LAKE IN 1849 and the Jacob Y. Stover Narrative. Reprinted from the Pacific Historical Review, June, 1937. 8vo, 17pp. White wrappers. ¶ “Of paramount Death Valley interest. The inclusion of the Stover narrative probably marks its first published appearance fromt he original manuscript (Edwards, Desert Treasure, p.13).


(CHAFFEY, George). ALEXANDER, J.A. THE LIFE OF GEORGE CHAFFEY, A Story of Irrigation Beginnings in California and Australia. Melbourne: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1928. 8vo, xv, [3], 382 pp. Frontispiece portrait, 35 pages of portraits and other text illustrations from black-and-white photographs, maps (including 1 folding at rear of text), index. Gray cloth with gilt-lettered spine. ¶ First Edition. Chaffey (1848-1932) has been called the Father of Irrigation and his greatest accomplishment was diverting the waters of the Colorado to irrigate a portion of the desert he named Imperial Valley, today one of the richest agricultural areas of the west. Chapters 20-22 deal with the Imperial Valley, chapter 22 by H.T. Cory being titled “The Master Builder.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.7.


CHALFANT, W.A. DEATH VALLEY, THE FACTS. Palo Alto: Stanford, 1930. 8vo, ix, 155pp, 30 plates, endpaper maps. Cloth. ¶ The standard Death Valley handbook has gone through several editions. In Desert Harvest Edwards wrote that of the enduring books on the desert the Chalfant and Manly “stand alone, distinctive and invulnerable.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.44-45.


CHALFANT, W.A. TALES OF THE PIONEERS. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1942. 8vo, 129pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition; part of these captivating tales were reprinted in the auhtors Gold, Guns, and Ghost Towns. Scarce.


CHALFANT, W.A. THE STORY OF INYO. Revised Edition. [N.p.: Published by the Author], 1933. 8vo, xviii, 430, vii-ads, frontispiece map. Orig. red cloth, gilt. ¶ Second and revised edition, scarcer than the first, of the definitive history of the Owens Valley, with sections on the Sierras and Death Valley. Chalfant based much of his history of the pre-1870 period on the private library of Henry Hanks who had been an assayer in Inyo County and went on to become State Mineralogist (the Hanks library was lost in the San Francisco fire of 1906). The first edition had only one chapter on the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and this edition devotes seven chapters to “The Betrayal of Owens Valley” plus new material on Indian life, customs, and legends. Cowan p.112. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.45.-6. Howes C-261: “Best history of the California region east of the Sierras, the Owens Valley and Death Valley.”


CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel E. MY CONFESSION: The Recollections of a Rogue. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956.


CHAMBERS, Wes. “The Van Dyke Papers: Historic Routes in the Mojave Desert...” [In:] San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, Volume XXXVIII, No. 1, Spring 1991. 4to, 45pp, b/w photo- and text illus. throughout. Wrappers. ¶ Included in this issue is an additional article: “The Halloran Spring Petroglyphs,” by Wilson G. Turner.


CHANDLER, Raymond & Robert B. Parker. POODLE SPRINGS, A Philip Marlowe Novel. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989. 8vo, 272pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of Parker’s deft completion of the last Philip Marlowe mystery. When Chandler died in 1959 only four chapters were completed.


CHAPIN, Edward L. A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MAPS. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953. 4to, x, 124pp. Wrappers. Very good. ¶ A carto-bibliography of 624 maps of the ten southernmost California counties. the maps selected are all dated after 1900, with most in the 1903s and 1940s.


CHAPMAN, Robert H. THE DESERTS OF NEVADA AND THE DEATH VALLEY... Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, 1906. Sm. 4to, (483)-497pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Orig. salmon wrappers. ¶ Reprinted from National Geographic Magazine, September, 1906. Edwards, Desert Voices, p.34: “Of no particular value...aside from the fact that it is one of the early printed descriptions of the desert.”


CHARTERIS, Leslie. THE SAINT GOES WEST. Some Further Exploits of Simon Templar. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. 8vo, (10), 276pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First U.S. edition of these three long novelettes. In the story set in Palm Springs, a millionaire playboy and his harem interrupt the Saint\'s vacation; therefore, he quickly puts an end to some murderous nonsense and resumes serious loafing. Charteris and wife were regulars in Palm Springs and owned a house in the Racquet Club Estates.


CHASE, J. Smeaton. CALIFORNIA DESERT TRAILS. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919. 8vo, xvi, 387pp, photographic plates by the author. Orig. decorative cloth. ¶ First Edition of one of the two outstanding books on the southern California desert, the other being James’ Wonders of the Colorado Desert. “Another gifted and perceptive observer of nature, and one of the California’s most enjoyable essayists, was Joseph Smeaton Chase. He was English by birth, and a social worker by profession, working for many years in a Los Angeles settlement house. He found time, however, for long, leisurely trips on horseback, preferably alone, with a book of poems and a notebook in his saddle bags... Like James and John Van Dyke, Chase was fascinated by the beauty of the desert, which he called - with a slight bow to Charles Dudley Warner - ‘our Araby;’ he finally made his home near Palm Springs” (Stoughton, The Books of California, p.92). “The book is well written; the material intelligently assembled. The book is indispensable to any library, large or small, whether for desert lover or desert stranger” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.48). Includes material on Palm Springs, Seven Palms, Thousand Palm Canyon, the Salton Sea, Twentynine Palms, etc, with an appendix of 118 desert plants and hints on traveling in the desert.


CHASE, J. Smeaton. OUR ARABY, Palm Springs and the Garden of the Sun. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Illustrated from Photographs by the Author: With a Descriptive List of Desert Plants, etc. and Hints to Desert Motorists: also a New Map of the Region by the U.S. Geological Survey. Palm Springs: Printed for J. Smeaton Chase, 1923. 12mo, 112pp, folding map in pocket at back. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. “In Our Araby Chase has fashioned a delicately beautiful classic of Palm Springs. The main text is supplemented by a descriptive list of desert plants, and with a section on hints to desert motorists” (Edward, Enduring Desert, p.48).


CHIARO, Preston & Bobbie Tanner. RESURRECTING A LEGEND, the Return of the Borax Twenty Mule Team Death Valley 49ers, Keepsake No. 41, 2001. 8vo, 28pp. Wrappers.


CHURCHWELL, Mary Jo. PALM SPRINGS, The Landscape, The History, The Lore. N.p.: Ironwood Editions, 2001. 8vo, (10), 234pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a good general work, drawn from the standard sources.


CLARK, Frederick Thickstun. IN THE VALLEY OF HAVILAH. New York: Frank F. Lovell & Company, (1890). 8vo, 282pp. Mottled boards. ¶ First Edition.


CLARK, May Lillian and Twila G. Couzens. YUCCA VALLEY and its History. [Yucca Valley:] The Authors, 1966. 4to, (2), 21, (1) leaves, mimeo on rectos. Hand lettered wrappers illustrated with drawing of Yucca trees and a roadrunner. Stapled. ¶ First Edition. A succinct history of Yucca Valley and environs from the 19th through the mid-twentieth century, with interesting notes on Warren’s Well, early ranchers, travelers, and miners in the vicinity. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.49.


CLARKE, Asa B. TRAVELS IN MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA... Comprising a Journal of a Tour from Brazos Santiago, through Central Mexico, by Way of Monterey, Chihuahua, the Country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California. Boston: Wright & Hasty’s Steam Press, 1852. Sm. 8vo, 138 pp. Original printed wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Clarke sailed from New York on January 29, 1849, and arrived in the pueblo of Los Angeles on July 9th. Most of the narrative is devoted to his arduous journey; his mining career was very brief. American Travelers Abroad, C65. Cowan (I), p.48; (II), p.128. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.9. Howes C-451. Kurutz 138a. Sabin 13393. Wagner-Camp 210. Wheat, Gold Rush, 41.


CLELAND, Robert Glass. THE CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS, Southern Califonria 1850-1870. San Marino: [Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press for] Huntington Library, 1941. 8vo, 327pp, text illus. Green cloth. ¶ First Edition of the best scholarly account of the California ranchos. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.50: “Reference is made to bordering desert areas and peoples - Warner’s Ranch, Agua Caliente Ranch, San Gorgonio Ranch, the Cajon Pass, the Cahuilla Indians.” Includes material on Murieta and Vasquez.” Howes C477.


CLEMENTS, Thomas. GEOLOGICAL STORY OF DEATH VALLEY... Illustrated. [N.p.]: Death Valley 49ers, Inc., (1966). 12mo, 62pp, frontispiece, 16 b/w photo-illus., 2 maps, 1 chart. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ Fourth, revised edition, first published in 1954. Publication No.1 of the Death Valley 49ers.


(Coachella). THE PERISCOPE: A Collection of Stories and Recollections about the Coachella Valley. Indio: Coachella Valley Historical Society, 1980.


(Coachella Valley). A KEY TO THE PLANTS AND PLACES OF INTEREST IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY by The Nature Study Classes of the Coachella Valley Evening High School. Coachella Valley Union High School District, 1951. 8vo, 71pp, b/w text and photo-illus. throughout. Orig. yellow and navy blue pictorial wrappers. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.8.


(Coachella Valley). [Desert Magazine - Special Issue]. “What to See and Do in California’s Coachella Valley. Palm Desert: Cactus Paperworks, 1981.


(Coachella Valley). DESERT MEMORIES (Historic Images of the Coachella Valley). [N.p.]: (Pediment Publishing/The Desert Sun), (2002). Obl. 8vo, 128pp, several hundred b/w photo-illus. Black boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. Front-page headlines from the Desert Sun are reproduced among the many photo-illustrations contained in this nostalgic tour.


(Coachella Valley Map). PALM SPRINGS & VICINITY. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Drug Co, [n.d., ca. 1955]. Obl. 8vo folding pamphlet with 2 maps. ¶ The detailed large map measuring 9 by 22 inches, stretches from Banning and Hemet on the West to Blythe and the Colorado River on the East. A smaller map occupying a single panel depicts Southern California and lists driving distances from Palm Springs.


COFFEE, L.W. DESERT HOT SPRINGS WHY? Los Angeles: L.W. Coffee, [n.d., ca. 1948]. 8vo, 22pp. Publ. yellow wrappers, lettered and bordered in black. ¶ By the founder and developer of Desert Hot Springs, California.


COHEN, Octavius Roy. A BULLET FOR MY LOVE... New York: Macmillan, 1950. 8vo, ¶ First Edition of a mystery novel set in Hollywood and the California desert. Baird & Greenwood 504.


COIT, John Eliot. IMPERIAL VALLEY SETTLERS’ CROP MANUAL.


COKE, Larry and Lucille. CALICO. Yermo: Larry Coke, (1941). 12mo, (4), 58pp, 22illus. Wrappers printed with bold title in red. ¶ First Edition of a concise history of boom and bust of the Mojave mining town, with short biographical sketches of notable old-timers. The Coke were long-time residents of Calico. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.52.


COLLEY, Nevada C. FROM MAINE TO MECCA. Indio: Nevada C. Colley, 1967. 8vo, 244pp, illus. ¶ Moving to the Coachella Valley in 1931 Nevada Colley and her husband took over the management of the ranch and ice plant started in 1912 by her husband’s uncle.


COLLINS, Kate. DESERT HOURS WITH CHIEF PATENCIO. Edited by Roy F. Hudson, with Illustrations by Bill Hemerdinger. Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1971. 8vo, 38pp. ¶ The author engaged in numerous conversations with Francisco Patencio, Chief of the Cahuilla. Much of this book was first published in Stories and Legends of the Palm Springs Indians in 1943, with new unpublished material found in the Palm Springs Museum archives.


(Colorado River). “Controlling the Colorado River and the Salton Sea.” [In:] Scientific American, Dec. 22, 1906.


(Colorado River Aqueduct). THE GREAT AQUEDUCT, The Story of the Planning and Building of the Colorado River Aqueduct. Los Angeles: The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1941.


(Colorado River Aqueduct).). WATER FOR THIRTEEN CITIES in the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. A Brief Description of the Colorado River Aqueduct, America’s Largest Construction Job in Progress Today... Los Angeles: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1935. Obl. 12mo, (24)pp b/w photo-illus. throughout, double-suite full color map of aqueduct route, verso upper folding wrapper. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ Second printing.


(Colorado River Aqueduct). F.E. Weymouth COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT. Los Angeles: The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1935-39 ¶ In the early 1920’s Los Angeles began investigating the Colorado River as a possible source for water as drought and expanding population had placed a strain on existing supplies. In 1928, Los Angeles joined with several other communities also seeking more water to form the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Over the next decade the District obtained voter approval to fund the project, and constructed in 1993-41 a network of pumping plants, reservoirs, and canals to bring water from Lake Havasu, behind the Bureau of Reclamation\'s Parker Dam, to the coastal plain. Deliveries from the Colorado River began in June, 1941. San Diego completed its connection in 1947, with water arriving in the Coachella Valley two years later. Published as a public service by the fledgling Metropolitan Water District the reports include chapters on route selection, design, specifications, financing, rights of way, construction, distribution facilities, the workers, administration etc. Profusely illustrated with photos, charts, tables, and a route map.


COMBS, Susan Bird. SAN GORGONIO PASS, Early History to 1880. (Banning, unpublished mss.) ¶ An unpublished mss.


CONKLING, Roscoe P. and Margaret B. Conkling. THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL 1857-1869. Its Organization and Operation over the Southern Route to 1861; Subsequently over the Central Route to 1866; and under Wells, Fargo and Company in 1869. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1947. 3 vols, 8vo, 412; 446pp + atlas volumes with 11 plates, add. illus and maps in vols. I & II. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. “The primary source of information on the Butterfield Overland Mail, the first great overland postal service from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Roscoe... traveled over 65,000 miles and took over 4000 photographs, as well as interviewing those with personal, first-hand knowledge to document its path... With its detailed information in routes, the various stations, and the personnel, it is constantly in demand...” (Clark & Brunet 58).


CONROTTO, Eugene L. LOST DESERT BONANZAS. Illustrated by Norton Allen. Palm Desert: Desert - Southwest Pub., 1963.


COOKE, Philip St. George. JOURNAL OF THE MARCH OF THE MORMON BATTALION... Exectutive Document No. 2, U.S. Congress, Senate, 31st Congress, Special Session. 1859.


COOKE, Philip St. George. THE CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA. Oakland: Biobooks, 1952.


COOKE, Philip St. George et al. EXPLORING SOUTHWESTERN TRAILS, 1864-54. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1937. ¶ First Edition. Number VII of Clark’s Southwest Historical Series published in 12 volumes from 1931 to 1943 in an edition of 866 sets. Clark & Brunet 21; See: Howes S-791.


COOLIDGE, Dane. DEATH VALLEY PROSPECTORS. New York: Dutton, 1937. 8vo, 178pp, 16 inserted plates. Orange cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of these sketches of old prospectors, including Breyfogle, Smitty, Le Mogne, Shorty Harris, and Scotty. Edwards, The Enduring Desert, p.55. Paher 378. Reprinted in 1985 by the Sagebrush Press.


COOLIDGE, Dane. FIGHTING MEN OF THE WEST. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1932). 8vo, 343pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. Of desert interest, with 33 pages devoted to Death Valley Scotty, together with chapters on Tom Horn, Clay Allison, Bat Masterson, and Billy the Kid. Edwards called “a good book - and scarce” in Desert Treasure. Adams, Six-Guns, 489; Herd 574.


COOLIDGE, Dane. HORSE-KETCHUM. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1930). 8vo, 236pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of another novel set in Death Valley.


COOLIDGE, Dane. LOST WAGONS. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1932). 8vo, 256pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of another novel set in Death Valley.


COOLIDGE, Dane. SHADOW MOUNTAIN. W.J. Watt & Co., (1919). 8vo, 311pp, frontispiece by George W. Gage. cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a novel set in Death Valley.


COOLIDGE, Dane. SNAKE-BIT JONES. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1936). 8vo, 280pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of yet another Coolidge novel set in Death Valley.


COOLIDGE, Dane. WUNPOST. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1920). 8vo, 273pp. Red cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a novel set in Death Valley.


COOPER, Erwin AQUEDUCT EMPIRE: A Guide to Water in California Its Turbulent History and Its Management Today Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1968.


COQUELLE, Aline. PALM SPRINGS STYLE. New York: Assouline, 4to, 191pp, color illus. throughout. Cloth, dust jacket.


CORLE, Edwin. DESERT COUNTRY. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 8vo, 357pp. ¶ “By desert in this book is meant the arid land of the American Southwest, in general that area between the Pacific Coast Range and the Rocky Mountain chain, that great basin region which includes such deserts as the Mojave, the Colorado, the Amargosa, and Arizona\'s western slope. This desert land, which also includes Death Valley, and the Panamint Valley, all of Nevada and western Utah, and the watershed of the Little Colorado River which is the Painted Desert, is contiguous. It is only man who has broken it up into arbitrary divisions. The desert doesn\'t stop at a State line or a mountain barrier or a damsite. The beast is all of a piece...” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.56: “By all odds it may be considered one of California’s great books of the desert; a book that is certain to endure.”


CORLE, Edwin. FIG TREE JOHN. [Los Angeles]: The Ward Ritchie Press, (1955). 8vo, 318pp, illustrations by Don Perceval. Publisher’s cloth-backed boards in publisher’s slipcase. ¶ First Edition, one of 550 copies, of the tale of an Apache who leaves the reservation to live on the desert near the Salton Sea. He remains aloof from the white man’s culture until his wife is killed by a white renegade. Powell, Land of Fiction, 15: “Following the success of his Southwest stories in Mojave, Corle wrote this powerful study of the ruin wrought when Indian is supplanted by white. The setting is the desert near Indio, the main character drawn from life; the psychology and the landscape are portrayed with insight and fidelity by a writer who knows and loves man and the earth. In the half century between Ramona and Fig Tree John, the California Indians were practically extinguished; thus Corle’s novel is a post mortem, and a tragic one.” Baird & Greenwood 544. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.56. Walker p.260.


CORLE, Edwin. MOJAVE, A Book of Stories. New York: Liveright, (1934). 8vo, 272pp. Red cloth stamped in orange. Dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of the author’s first book, the dedication copy, inscribed by Corle “with my love/ E.C.” beneath the printed dedication “To H.F.” Fourteen stories set in the Mojave desert during the depression of the ‘thirties.
Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.57: “The first yarn, Listen, Desert... is a masterpiece of desert literature.” Baird & Greenwood 545. (QUERY: who is H.F.?)


CORLE, Edwin. THE GILA: River of the Southwest. New York: Rinehart, 1951. 8vo, 402pp, illustrated by Ross Santee. Cloth. ¶ First Edition, one of the Rivers of America series. The Gila is closely associated with the history of the Colorado Desert for it was the route followed by the missionaries, Kearny, Emory, Cook and the 49ers. “It is this region round-about the junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers that provided the springboard approach to a precipitous plunge into the vast desert area spreading monotonously to the west... It was here, at this precise point, that vital incidents of far-reaching consequence transpired which influenced immeasurably the development of our southern deserts and - for that matter - of the entire State of California” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.56-57). Adams, Six-Guns, 252.


CORNER, Edred John Henry. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF PALMS. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966. 8vo, 393pp.


CORNETT, James W. DESERT PALM OASIS. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1989.


CORNETT, Jim. COACHELLA VALLEY NATURE GUIDE. An Introduction to the Natural History of the Coachella Valley. Palm Springs: Nature Trails Press, 1980. 8vo, 33pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout, double-suite color map. Yellow wrappers, lettered in black with photo-illus. vignette, ¶ First Edition of this handy guide with 10 driving trips and accompanying maps.


(Coronado). BOLTON, Herbert Eugene. CORONADO: Knight of Pueblos and Plains. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1949, 1990. 491pp.


(Coronado). HAMMOND, George P. and Agapito Rey. NARRATIVES OF THE CORONADO EXPEDITION, 1540-1542. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1940.


(Coronado). SIMPSON, James H. CORONADO’S MARCH IN SEARCH OF THE SEVEN CITIES OF CIBOLA and Discussion of their Probable Locations and Ancient Aboriginal... Washington. The Smithsonian Institution Report, 1869.


(Coronado). WINSHIP, George Parked, ed. THE JOURNEY OF FRANCISCO VAZQUEZ DE CORORADO 1540-1542. As Told by Pedro de Casta–eda, Francisco Vazquez de Coronado and Others. Translated and Edited by George Parker Winship with Additional Notes and an Introduction by Frederick Webb Hodge. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1933. xxvii, (3),134, (11)pp. ¶ Includes printings of the narratives of Castaneda and Jaramillo, Coronado’s letters, etc. Following the tales of Friar Marcos de Ninza of having seen great caches of gold and silver in the seven cities of Cibola, Coronado, then Governor of New Galicia and a large party set forth in search of wealth. They crossed much of New Mexico and Arizona and discovered the Grand Canyon. In pursuit of another myth of gold they searched for and found Quivira which Winship locates in Kansas though other scholars have located it elsewhere. They returned to Mexico without having found any gold, silver or gems. A later edition of The Coronado Expedition of 1869. Howes W-571.


(Coronado). WINSHIP, George Parker, ed. “The Coronado Expedition.” [In:] Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology... J.W. Powell, Director. 1892-93. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1896. 4to, maps, drawings, photographs, reproduction of journal, bibliography, etc. ¶ The Coronado Expedition includes the first translation into English of the Relacion of Pedro de Castaneda, together with translations of other accounts, reports and letters, and a historical introduction, reproductions of contemporary maps, and photographs and notes by F.W. Hodge.


CORY, H.T. & William Phipps Blake. THE IMPERIAL VALLEY AND THE SALTON SINK. San Francisco: John J. Newbegin, 1915. 8vo, 30; [48]-61; [1204]-1581pp, folding maps & tables. Later buckram, gilt titles. ¶ Part 1 provides a non-technical discussion by Dr William P. Blake of the Pacific Railway Survey, part of which appeared in the MacDougal report; part 2 contains abstracts of scientific monographs by W. H. Ross and Godfrey Sykes concerning the Salton Sea; parts 3, 4 & 5 are by H.T. Cory. A second edition was issued in 1924 as Irrigation and River Control in the Colorado River Delta, but is abridged. Blake was the Geologist of Lt Williamson’s party of U.S. Topographic Engineers which surveyed and reported on the southern route for a transcontinental railroad in 1853 and was the first to examine and describe the Colorado Desert in a scientific manner. Edwards p.57. Farquhar, Colorado River, 90.


COUTS, Cave - William McPherson (ed.). FROM SAN DIEGO TO THE COLORADO IN 1849. The Journal and Maps of Cave J. Couts. Los Angeles: Arthur M. Ellis, 1932. 8vo, (iv), 77, frontis. map, 1 plate with 2 maps in text. Original half cloth and gray paper over boards, printed paper spine label. Very good. ¶ First Edition. Couts served as a lieutenant of the U.S. Dragoons and in the Boundary Survey until 1851. In 1849, he conducted the Whipple expedition from San Diego to the Colorado, being in command of its military escort. Couts’s diary is one of the few early narratives of an expedition going East from California, and offers interesting details and observations on the gold-seekers Couts encountered in the California desert. One of the scarcer titles from the Zamorano Club and the last work from the private press of the Los Angeles printer Arthur M. Ellis. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 58-59; Oases p.67. Howes C-811.


COVILLE, Frederick Vernon and Daniel Trembly MacDougal. DESERT BOTANICAL LABORATORY OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION. Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1903. 4to, 58pp, 29 full page photo. illus. Printed wrappers. ¶ Only Edition. While at the New York Botanical Garden MacDougal served on a committee to establish a tropical research laboratory which led to the establishment in 1905 of the Desert Botanical Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. He was appointed the first director and the Laboratory later become part of the Carnegie Institution. Not in Edwards, although there are sections on the Colorado and Mojave Deserts.


COWLES, Raymond B., in collaboration with Elna S. Bakker. DESERT JOURNAL, A Naturalist Reflects on Arid California. ¶ First Edition. A lifetime reminiscence by one of the California desert’s most renowned naturalists.


COY, Owen. GREAT TREK. Los Angeles: Powell Publishing Co., 1931. 349pp, illus. by Franz Geritz Blue cloth, gilt.


CRAFTS, Mrs E.P.R., assisted by Mrs. Fannie P. McGehee. PIONEER DAYS IN THE SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY. Redlands: Kingsley, Moles & Collins Co., Pirnters, 1906. 8vo, 214pp, 35 early photogrpahic plates. ¶ First Edition of an interesting work by a woman who moved to the Valley in 1854 and wrote the book in her 80th year. Includes a chapter on the desert Cahuillas and their noted chief Cabazon. “One of the more important among the relatively few source records available concerning the early history of the San Bernardino Valley. Cowan p.149. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.61: “Quite scarce.”


CRAMPTON, Gregory C. and MADSEN, Steven K. IN SEARCH OF THE SPANISH TRAIL, Santa Fe to Los Angeles, 1829-1848. Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1994. 4to, 144pp, misc b&w photo-illus. Illus. wrappers. ¶ Signed by author Steven K. Madsen.


CRAWFORD, Hildy, ed. PALM SPRINGS PERSONAGES 1961. A Who’s Who of the Desert Area, Listing Leaders in the Fields of Society, Entertainment, Sports, Professional and Civic Affairs. Palm Springs: Hildy Crawford, 1961. 12mo, [7]-128pp. Gold cloth stamped in blue. ¶ A Palm Springs “social” directory with names, addresses (both desert and city), telephone numbers, professions, clubs, and children’s names. Includes George Alexander (the builder), Frank Bogert (mayor), Eddie Cantor, Marguerite Chapman, William Cody (the architect), Bing Crosby, Jolie Gabor, Walt Disney, Charles Farrell, Bob Hope, Sol Lesser, Raymond Loewy, Harpo Marx, Zeppo Marx, Chester Moorten, Hugh O’Brian, Pearl McCallum, Harry Oliver (Desert Rat), William Powell, James Roosevelt, Ray Ryan (oilman, gambler, owner of El Mirador), James Van Heusen (song writer), Donald Wexler & Stewart Williams (the architects), Jack Wrather & Bonita Granville, Mrs Harold Bell Wright, et al.


CRONISE, Titus Fey. THE NATURAL WEALTH OF CALIFORNIAÉ A Detailed Description of each CountyÉ San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft, 1868. 4to, xvi, 696pp, frontispiece & fifteen woodcut plates. Org. green pebbled cloth, gilt, bookplate of The Japanese Church Assoc, Haight Street, and with Japanese writing on endpaper. Very good ¶ First Edition of a thorough and under-appreciated compendium of information on the state of California. “The best and most reliable work of the time. Many copies were issued with the plates omitted” (Cowan). Bret Harte is listed in the introduction for his contribution to “the preparation of material.” Why this book is usually found without plates has never been explained. BAL 7243. Edwards, The Enduring Desert, pp.62-63: “Cronise gives us one of our earliest published book references to Death Valley, naming it as such.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, notes desert material on pp.94-103; 117-120; 280-288.Sabin 17608.


CRONKHITE, Daniel. DEATH VALLEY’S VICTIMS. Verdi, NV: Sagebrush Press, 1968. 8vo, 33, (3)pp, 12 illus. ¶ First Edition, limited to 225 deluxe copies and 750 in wrappers, hand-set and printed by the author. Arranged chronologically from 1849 through 1966, the author lists those who have met their death on the sands of Death Valley. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.63.


CRONKHITE, Daniel. RECOLLECTIONS OF A YOUNG DESERT RAT: Impressions of Nevada and Death Valley. Verdi, NV: Sagebrush Press, 1972.


CROTSENBURG, Maxine and Cal. GATEWAY TO THE HI-DESERT - A History of Morongo Valley. [Circa 1958]. 8vo, 14pp, 14 photographs. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.63: “Outstanding are the photographs contained in this scarce booklet of our High Desert country.”


CROWE, Rosalie & Sidney B. Brinckerhoff (eds.). EARLY YUMA: A Graphic History of Life on the American Nile. (Yuma County Historical Society), (1992). 4to, vii, 139pp, frontispiece, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Illus. wrappers. ¶ Second printing, first issued in 1976.


CURTIS, Edwards S. THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN. Being a Series of Volumes Picturing and Describing the Indians of the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and Alaska.Vol. 15. 1926. 4to, xii, 225pp, illus with 75 gravure plates from photographs by Curtis, one of them hand-colored. Half gilt-ruled brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt. ¶ The fifteenth text volume in Curtis’s monumental work on the Indians of North America, which eventually numbered 20 text volumes, each with an accompanying portfolio of large photogravure plates. Although 500 sets were produced, only about half othose were bound. Vol. 15 covers the Indians of Southern California, including the Lisenos, the Cahuilla, the Dieguenos, Shoshoneans, the Moni, the Paviotso, and the Washo.


CYGELMAN, Adele & David Glomb. PALM SPRINGS MODERN, Houses in the California Desert. New York: Rizzoli, (1999). 4to, 191, (1)pp, color illus. throughout. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of the best study of the modernist movement which flourished in the Coachella Valley from the 1930 through the early 1960s.


DALE, Edward Everett. THE INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST. A Century Development under the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949.


DALE, Harrison Clifford. ASHLEY-SMITH EXPLORATIONS and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific 1822-1829. Glendale: Arthur H. cCark, 1918. 8vo, 352pp, maps, illustrations. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of accounts of and narratives by William Henry Ashley, Jedediah Strong Smith, Harrison Rogers, etc. Smith was the first white man to enter California via the overland route from the east. Zamorano Eighty 25. Howes D-21. Wagner-Camp p.35 note. Zamorano 80 #25. Clark & Brunet, The Arthur H. Clark Company, 55.


DARTON, N.H. GUIDEBOOK TO THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. Part F: The Southern Pacific Lines, New Orleans to Los Angeles. US Dept of the Interior, Bulletin 845. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933. ¶ The territory along the railroads between Yuma and San Gorgonio Pass and between Yuma and San Diego is described on pp.239-264 and 287-292 respectively and reproduced on Sheets 26 and 27 of the accompanying topographic-geologic strip map. One of the US Geological Survey’s six volume series on western rail routes.


DARTON, N.H. et al. GUIDEBOOK TO THE WESTERN UNITED STATES. Part C. The Santa Fe Route, with a Side Trip to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915. 8vo, 194pp, 24 fold-out route maps, 42 b/w plates, 40 text illus. Half black calf over cloth, spine lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, leather of spine largely perished (most of title section preserved) joints cracked through, but cords holding, a fairly good, internally clean, copy. ¶ Department of the Interior, United States Geological Surrey Bulletin 613. One of the Survey’s six-part series on western rail routes, the present volume includes an indexed listing of approx. 400 railroad stations.


(Dates). COACHELLA VALLEY DATE GROWERS ASSOCIATION [cover & caption title]. (Los Angeles: Neuner Co), [ca. 1915]. Narrow 16mo, 16pp, 6 b/w photo-illus. (1 double-suite), 2 maps on folding tipped-in sheet at rear. Color illus. wrappers. ¶ Promotional pamphlet with information on history, soils, cultivation, food value, seedlings, varieties, offshoots, markets, and the growers association.


(Dates). “FROM VALERIE JEAN’S DESERT OASIS TO YOU.” (Thermal, Calif.: Valerie Jean Date Shop), [n.d., ca. 1950]. Sheet measuring 12 by 18 inches, folded into six sections, photo-illus. vignettes, with smaller brochure and related materials for ordering laid-in. ¶ Advertising brochure. The smaller pamphlet depicts the date business cycle from cultivation to shipment of orders, and describes “Old King Solomon,” the famous male date palm imported from Arabia in 1912, which produces enough pollen for 400 female palms!


DAVIS, Arthur P. PROBLEMS OF IMPERIAL VALLEY AND VICINITY. Report of the Director of the Reclamation Service on Problems of Imperial Valley and Vicinity with Respect to Irrigation from the Colorado River, Together with the Proceedings of the Conference on the Construction of Boulder Dam held at San Diego, California, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1922. 326pp, 52 plates (including many folding maps & charts). Orig. cloth. ¶ One of the most important reports in Western history - an extensive investigation into the many aspects of the Colorado River Project - resources of the Upper Basin, construction of the Boulder Dam, diversion of water to Southern California, development of the All-American Canal for the Imperial Valley, flood control, power, etc. This report, in which Davis “collected, summarized, and digested the results of the previous investigations carried out by the Reclamation Service under his direction during the preceding twenty years” (DAB), paved the way for the Boulder Canyon Project Bill. “Known as the Falls-Davis Report, the document contained an exhaustive hydrological and geological profile of the Colorado River and its canyons. A profusion of charts, tables, and graphs summarized discharge, silt content, evaporation figures, temperature and precipitation data, present and future irrigation needs, flood-control requirements, and the storage and power-producing capacity of various reservoir sites. But to the congressmen, growers, developers, real estate speculators, utility executives, and other interested parties who flipped through its hundreds of pages, the essence of the report was a brief recommendation on page 21: the U.S. should construct, with government funds, a giant dam at or near Boulder Canyon and recoup the construction costs by selling the electric power to the growing cities of Southern California. Once the dam was in place to provide flood protection and water storage, the All-American Canal could be built in the Imperial Valley, but the dam was to be the conterpiece”) Stevems, The Hoover Dam, pp.17-18). As Hundley points out, “Even before the document was distributed, Swing [the Imperial Valley congressman] was preparing legislation to implement its recommendation” (Dividing the Waters, p.170). All that remained was how to divide up the river’s flow - and that led to the Colorado River Compact. (Note by Schoyer’s Books, Berkeley.)


DAVIS, Margaret L, RIVERS IN THE DESERT: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ¶ “..the story of the birth & development of southern California, & of a man who was as unique a talent as any in American history. ...how one man, through vision, daring & engineering genius, invented the Los Angeles of the future, only to fall tragically from grace due to an unforeseen disaster.”


DAWSONS, E. Yale. CACTI OF CALIFORNIA. Berkeley: UC Press, 1966.


DE BUYS, William - photographs by Joan Myers. SALT DREAMS: Land & Water in Low-Down California. University of New Mexico Press, 1999. 8vo, xiii, (v), 307pp plus numerous b/w photo plates. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a very important work summarizing the past, critiquing the present, and envisioning a future for California’s water dilemma in the Imperial Valley. DeBuys provides a well-written and well-researched history of the Salton Sea and Joan Myers’ austerely beautiful photographs make the book a delight.


DE LA RHUE, T[revino]. SPANISH TRAILS TO CALIFORNIA. Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton Printers, 1937. 8vo, 285pp, endpaper maps. Publ. yellow cloth, lettered in black. ¶ First Edition of a novel about Spanish exploration into California in the 1770s. The protagonists lead a band of political refugees across the deserts into southern California. Baird & Greenwood 635.


DE LANEY, Paul. TOLL OF THE SANDS. Denver: Smith-Brooks 1919. ¶ A novel set in Death Valley.


DE STANLEY, Mildred. THE SALTON SEA, Yesterday and Today. Illustrated by Joseph Johnson. Los Angeles: Triumph Press, 1966. 8vo, 128pp, illus. in b/w. Blue wrappers. ¶ A popular booklet which has gone through numerous printings.


(Death Valley). DEATH VALLEY. A Guide. Written and Compiled by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. 8vo, xv, 75pp, misc b&w photo-illus, folding map at rear. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.83: “Of outstanding value are it superb photographic plates.”


(Death Valley). DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY’S CASTLE. A Description of the Castle & Its Furnishings. Death Valley, Nevada: Castle Publishing, (1941). 8vo, 74pp. Orig. red fabricoid wrappers.


(Death Valley Expedition). COVILLE, Frederick Vernon. BOTANY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. A Report on the Botany of the Expedition sent out in 1891 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make a Biological Survey of the Region of Death Valley, California. Washington: Department of Agriculture, 1893. 8vo, (iv), viii, 364pp, frontispiece, 21 full-page lithographed botanical plates & large folding map of California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah at the back. ¶ First Edition of one of the earliest books on Death Valley and still the standard authority on the subject. Coville lists some 136 separate species of plants to be found in the Valley in 1892. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.60.


(Death Valley Expedition). MERRIAM, C. Hart (ed.). NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA, No. 7... The Death Valley Expedition: A Biological Survery of Parts of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Utah. Part II... Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. 8vo, 394pp, 14 b/w plates, 5 color maps (1 large folding). Orig. printed wrappers. ¶ A companion to Coville’s volume, the Death Valley expedition comprises volume 7 of the North American Fauna (vol. 6, A General Report of the Death Valley Expedition, was never issued). Merriam was in charge of the 1891 biological survey conducted by the Dept. of Agriculture, the most comprehensive and thorough biological survey ever undertaken. They determined the distinctive species of each zone, traced the courses of the several zones from California to the Colorado Plateau, and made large collections of the mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, and plants, which are now deposited in the United States National Museum. With articles by A.K. Fisher (Birds), L. Stejneger (Reptiles), Ch. H. Gilbert (Fishes), C.V. Riley (Insects), C. Stearns (Mollusks), T.S. Palmer (List of Localities), and Merriam (Desert Cacti & Yuccas). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.65.


DeDECKER, Mary. MINES OF THE EASTERN SIERRA... Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1966. 8vo, 72pp, frontispiece, maps, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


DEETH, Sandra L. DESERT DWELLERS. Los Angeles: Wetzel, (1930). 192pp


(DEKENS, Camiel). PATTERSON, Tom (ed.). RIVERMAN-DESERTMAN. The Recollections of Camiel Dekens as Told to Tom Patterson... Riverside: Press-Enterprise Co., 1962. 8vo, 111pp, photo. illus. throughout. Illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition of this account of early pioneers in the Palo Verde Valley in the Mojave Desert near Blythe. A second edition appeared in 1980 (Rubidoux: Historical Commission Press). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.65.


DELAMORE, H.E. DESERT LANDS OF CALIFORNIA. [In:] Travel, October, 1912. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.66: “...provides one of our early printed accounts of Twentynine Palms and the High Desert country. The item, generally, represents the desert as such a desolate and dnagerous area that rew readers would vare toventure upon it.”


DERBY, George H., Lt. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, Communicating, In compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, a Reconnoissance of the Gulf of California and the Colorado River by Lieutenant Derby. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1852. 28pp, text illustrations, folding map. ¶ First Edition [32d Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 81]. Derby’s expedition piloted the U.S. Army Transport Invincible up the Colorado River from the Gulf of California to chart a supply route to the proposed army post at Yuma. Francis Farquhar notes “Although the Invincible did not get very far up the river, a considerable amount of useful information was obtained and the map proved serviceable to succeeding navigators” (Farquhar, Colorado River, 15a).


DERBY, George Horatio. THE TOPOGRAPHIC REPORTS OF LIEUTENEANT GEORGE H. DERBY, with Introduction and Notes by Francis P. Farquhar. In: California Historical Society Special Publication No. 6. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1932. 8vo, (2), 81pp, frontispiece portrait of Derby (from a portrait by F. B. Carpenter), maps (two of which are folding), text illustrations. Orig. grey printed wrappers. ¶ The work consists of reprints from the Quarterly of the California Historical Society vol. 11, nos. 2-4, with additional material (CHS Special Publication 6). D