La Quinta. THE HISTORY OF LA QUINTA - The Gem of the Desert. La Quinta: La Quinta Historical Society, 1990


La Quinta Resort and Club. LA QUINTA RESORT AND CLUB HISTORY. La Quinta: La Quinta Resort and Club, n.d.


LA RUE, E.C.. Water-Supply Paper 395. 1916.


LAFLIN, Patricia B. THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF COACHELLA VALLEY Indio: Coachella Valley Historical Society, 4to, 192pp, inc. 275 photographic illus.


LAIRD, Carobeth. ENCOUNTER WITH AN ANGRY GOD. Recollections of My Life with John Peabody Harrington. Banning: Malki Museum Press, 1975. 8vo. xxii, 190pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. “As a young woman she was the assistant to an eccentric ethno-linguist, John P. Harrington, and then became his wife. Intensely personal and compelling, Encounter is the bittersweet story of her seven years with Harrington. A later marriage to a Chemehuevi Indian proved happily restorative - as did her work on a second manuscrpt, published in 1976 as The Chemehuevis” (Powell, Land of Fact, 15). Jacket blurbs by Larry McMurtry, Tom Wolfe, etc.


LAIRD, Carobeth. MIRROR AND PATTERN: George Laird’s World of Chemehuevi Mythology. Banning: Malki Museum Press, 1984. 373pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. In Mirror and Pattern, the late Mrs. Laird presents a broad diversity of myths of the Chemehuevi, as transcribed from her husband’s telling and accompanied by her own precise and detailed analyses. These narratives of the days “when the animals were people,” when Coyote and Wolf ordained the paths to be followed by the human species which was to come after them, is one of the richest collections of Native American traditional literature which has yet appeared.


LAIRD, Carobeth. THE CHEMEHUEVIS. Banning: Malki Museum Press, (1976). 8vo, xxvii, 349pp, 2 folding maps, photo- and text illus. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition of the first book-length study of the culture, language, and oral traditions of one of the least-known of the Southern California Indian tribes. Laird (1895-1983), author of Encounter with an Angry God, was married to a Chemehuevi, George Laird, from 1923 until his death in 1940. As a youth, George ran with the Chemehuevi Runners, participated in tribal ceremonies such as the Mourning Ceremonies and the Ghost Dance, sang ancient hereditary songs. For twenty years he dictated Chemehuevi oral traditions depicting the myths and history which the author recorded (thereby creating the most complete collection of Chemehuevi traditions ever recorded). This book also recounts many of George’s memories, and includes a massive body of never-before published material on Chemehuevi kinship, religion, language, geography, and material culture.


LAMOUR, Louis. MOJAVE CROSSING. New York: Bantam Books, 1964. ¶ The sixth book in Lamour’s Sackett series. “Tell Sackett was packing 30 pounds of gold and no worries until he got to the ferry at the Colorado. Trouble found him there. It looked like a black-eyed woman, pretty as a young filly...” In addition to being a great storyteller, Lamour’s novels are extremely well-researched.


LANDIS, Christopher IN SEARCH OF ELDERADO: The Salton Sea. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Desert Museum, (2000).


LANG, Walter B. THE FIRST OVERLAND MAIL BUTTERFIELD TRAIL ST. LOUIS TO SAN FRANCISCO. 1940. 12mo, 163pp, b/w illus. Wrappers.


LASZLO, Hajdu. SPIRIT OF PALM SPRINGS. Authorhouse, 2005.


LATTING, June & Peter G. Rowlands (eds.). THE CALIFORNIA DESERT: An Introduction to Natural Resources and Man’s Impact. Riverside: June Latting Books, 1995. 2 vols, large 8vo, 665pp. Wrappers.


LAURIE, Bill D. “Regional Study of Mt. San Bernardino and Associated Areas,” [In:] SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY, Vol. XIV, No. 3 & 4, Spring & Summer, 1967. 4to, ii, 81pp, b/w photo- and text illustrations. Illus. wrappers, cloth-backed. ¶ First Edition.


LAWSON, Greg. PALM SPRINGS OASIS. Photography, Greg Lawson. El Cajon: First Choice, (1989). 69pp, chiefly illus.


LAWTON, Harry. WILLIE BOY, A Desert Manhunt. Balboa Island: Paisano Press, (1960). 8vo, 224pp, illustrated with previously unpublished photographs by Randolph Madison taken during the 1909 chase. Black cloth with red lettering, endpaper maps. ¶ First Edition. Edwards has much to say about the Willie Boy story (Lost Oases, pp.94-5). In fact, recent research has suggested that Willie Boy neither shot Lolita (she was mistakenly shot by the posse) nor committed suicide (a photograph of a body was posed, and Willie Boy escaped). This was the basis for the 1969 film Tell Them Willie Boy is Here with Robert Redford, Katharine Ross and Robert Blake; directed by Abraham Polonsky, his first film after being blacklisted almost twenty years earlier.


LAYNE, J. Gregg. WESTERN WAYFARING. Routes of Exploration and Trade in the American Southwest. Introduction by Phil Townsend Hanna; Maps by Lowell Butler. Los Angeles: Automobile Club of Southern California, 1954. 4to, v, 63pp, 28 half-page maps. Pictorial boards. ¶ One of 1500 copies, originally produced as a series of articles on famous explorations and trails for Westways magazine. “A good book and a useful one; a necessary tool that should be conveniently placed for quick reference in every library” (Edwards). There were also 100 copies specially bound for the Zamorano Club. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.149-150. Rittenhouse 360. Paher, Nevada, 1101.


LEACH, James B. PACIFIC WAGON ROADS. Exec. Document, U.S. Congress, Senate, 35th Congress, 2nd Session, 1858-59.


LEADABRAND, Russ (ed.). THE WESTERNERS BRAND BOOK NUMBER 11: The California Deserts, Their People, Their History, and Their Legends. [Glendale]: The Westerners, Los Angeles Corral, 1964. 8vo, xiv, 250pp, title in red and black with illus. vignette, 64 b/w photo-illus., black illus. vignettes at divisional titles. Publ. cream cloth, red illus. vignette and matching lettering at spine, photo-illus. endpapers. ¶ Only Edition of a remarkable gathering of desert materials, limited to 525 numbered copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Includes The Ghost Towns of Inyo by Richard Bailey; Early Man in the California Desert by Gerald A. Smith; Photographer of the Desert by Russ Leadabrand; Portfolio of Desert Area Photographs by Burton Frasher; A Historian’s Search for Sackett’s Lost Wells by Horace Parker; Forgotten Army Forts of the Mojave by L. Burr Belden; The Desert Was Our Beat by Randall Henderson; Slavers in the Mojave by Paul Bailey; King of the Desert Freighters by Remi Nadeau; War on the Colorado River by John Upton Terrell; and The Mystery of Death Valley’s Lost Wagon Train by E.I. Edwards. The Frasher photographs are among the earliest taken in Death Valley. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.89; 253-254.


LEADABRAND, Russ, et al. EXPLORING CALIFORNIA BYWAYS, all published by the Ward Ritchie Press. Los Angeles, 1960-70.
I: Kings Canyon to the Mexican Border;
II: In and Around Los Angeles.
III: Desert Country. Trips for a Day or Weekend. 1969.
IV: Mountain Country. 1970
V: Historic Sites Trips for a Day or a Weekend. 1971.
VI: Owens Valley Trips for a Day or a Weekend. 1972.
VII: An Historic Sketchbook, Trips for a Day or a Weekend California.
& GUIDEBOOK TO THE MOJAVE DESERT OF CALIFORNIA: Including Death Valley, Joshua Tree National Monument and the Antelope Valley. 1966.


LECH, Steve. ALONG THE OLD ROADS, A History of the Portion of Southern California that Became Riverside County, 1772-1893. Riverside: The Author, 2004. ¶ A history of of the settlement and development of town and colonies within the county followed by a discussion of the events leading to the establishment of Riverside County as a separate political entity.


LECH, Steve. RESORTS OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY (Postcard History). Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005. 8vo, 128pp, illus. throughout in b/w. Wrappers. ¶ Reproduces some 200 post cards of hot springs hotels and resorts, including Glen Ivy, Murietta, and those in Desert Hot Springs, La Quinta and Palm Springs.


LEE, Bourke. DEATH VALLEY. New York: Macmillan, 1930. 8vo, 210pp, plates. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.153.


LEE, Bourke. DEATH VALLEY MEN; A Black and White Study of a Great Man. New York: Macmillan, 1932. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.154.


LEE, Mike. SHORT STORIES ON BURRO SCHMIDT’S FAMOUS TUNNEL. N.p., n.d. 8vo, 10pp. ¶ Two printings exist. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.154.


LEE, W. Storrs. THE GREAT CALIFORNIA DESERTS... Illustrations by Edward Sanborn. New York: G.P. Putnams, 1963. 8vo, 306pp, map frontispiece, b/w illus. Light yellow cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. “The author turns in an entertaining book with scattered, fragmented, references to de Anza, Death Valley Scotty, Fremont, Cerro Gordo, Panamint City, Vasquez, Butterfield, 20-mule borax wagons, Wozencraft, Randsburg, Mulholland, Anza-Borrego, David Griffith, Twentynine Palms, Hoover Dam, Coachella Valley, and an infinite number and variety of others” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.154).


LEIBER, John. THE SAN GABRIEL, SAN BERNARDINO AND SAN JACINTO FOREST RESERVES. 1898


LEON-PORTILLA, Miguel. CARTOGRAFIA Y CRONICAS DE LA ANTIGUA CALIFORNIA. MŽxico City: Universidad Nacional Aut—noma de MŽxico, 1989. 207pp, color & b/w maps, illus. Boards. ¶ Chapters on Cortesian and Jesuit explorations throughout 17th and 18th centuries.


LEONARD, Orville H. THE LAND WHERE THE SUNSETS GO, Sketches of the American Desert. Boston: Sherman, French & Company, 1917. 8vo, (20), 212pp. Cloth, printed, unillustrated dust jacket ¶ First Edition. “Oddly enough, this little item has escaped poplar appeal; yet it pulsates with the breath of the desert, and smacks of Mary Austin and John Van Dyke. It merits resurrection from oblivion, and a cherished spot in every desert library” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.154). There was also a signed edition limited to 50 numbered copies.


LESLEY, Lewis B. UNCLE SAM’S CAMELS. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1929. 8vo, 298pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of the strange history of the curious camel debacle and the attempt to form a United States Military Camel Brigade under Jefferson Davis. This story is augmented by the journal of May Humphreys Stacey, and by the report of Edward Fitzgerald Beale. Another section tells of the dispersal of the camels after they had served their usefulness in this abortive effort to provide a mode of transcontinental freight service. Cowen p.869. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.155-56.


LEWIS, Flannery. ABEL DAYTON. New York: Macmillan, 1939. 8vo, (6), 304pp. Publ. blue cloth, lettered in silver, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. Baird & Greenwood 1495: “Story of an adolescent boy as he grows into manhood. He lives with his father... at a southern California desert telegraph station.”


(Lewis Publishing). AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Pen Pictures From the Garden of the World. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1890. 4to (11-3/4 x 9-3/4 in.), 898pp, 35 full-page engraved plates. Original full brown morocco, raised bands, decorated endpapers, all edges gilt.


LINDLEY, Walter. Indio- the Colorado Desert for Health. [In:] New York Medical Record. New York, 1894.


LINDLEY, Walter & J.P. Widney. CALIFORNIA OF THE SOUTH. Its Physical Geography, Climate, Mineral Springs, Resources, Routes of Travel, and Health Resorts, Being a Complete Guidebook to Southern California. New York: D. Appleton, 1896. 8vo, 335pp. Frontis, plates. Gilt cloth. ¶ Third, extensively revised edition. Part I describes the Climatology of the Pacific Coast, Part II, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Riverside Counties. Layne, Books of the Los Angeles District 18: “This excellent descriptive book, published at the end of the great land boom of the ‘Eighties, is one of the best that has appeared of the Los Angeles District. Doctors Walter Lindley and J.P. Widney knew their subject as well as anyone then living. The book contains much history...” Cowan p.393.


LINDSAY, Diana Elaine. OUR HISTORIC DESERT: The Story of the Anza-Borrego Desert, the Largest State Park in the United States of America (History of Southern California series). San Diego: Copley Books,


LINDSAY, Lowell and William G. Hample (eds). GEOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES OF THE IMPERIAL AND MEXICALI VALLEYS. San Diego: San Diego Association of Geologists, (1998). 8vo, (4), 187pp, b/w photo- and text illus. throughout. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


LINGENFELTER, Richard. STEAMBOATS ON THE COLORADO RIVER 1852-1916. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1978.


LINGENFELTER, Richard E. DEATH VALLEY & THE AMARGOSA: A Land of Illusion. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. 8vo, viii, 664pp, 24 hors-texte b/w photo-illus. plates, maps and text illus. throughout. Publ. brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. “This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the Avawatz. And it spans a century from the earliest recollections and the oldest records to that day in 1933 when much of the valley was finally set aside as a National Monument.”


LINGENFELTER, Richard E.; James Pisarowicz & Jean Johnson. PROCEEDINGS DEATH VALLEY CONFERENCE ON HISTORY AND PREHISTORY. Death Valley: Death Valley Natural History Association, 1992.


LINGENFELTER, Richard & Richard A. Dwyer, eds. DEATH VALLEY LORE: Classic Tales of Fantasy, Adventure, and Mystery. Reno: University of Nevada Press, (1988). 8vo, (12), 344pp, with a few line drawings and amap. Cloth, dust jacket illustrated with phto of a burro miner. ¶ First Edition, with stories by Manly, Spears, J. Ross Browne, Dan DeQuille, Shorty Harris, etc. Includes sections on Lost Ledges; 20-Mule Teams; Death in the Valley; Scotty


LIPPINCOTT, J.B. The Yuma Reclamation Project. [In:] Smithsonian Institution Annual Report for 1905. Pp.383-388 + 1 plate, extracted. Washington, 1905. ¶ Reprinted from Outwest, June, 1904.


LIVINGSTON, Alfred. GEOLOGICAL JOURNEYS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm C. Brown Co., 1933. 154pp, maps, illus.


LLOYD, Elwood. ENCHANTED SANDS Los Angeles: Arthur H. Steake, 1939. 12mo, 61pp. Boards. ¶ First Edition. “Lloyd offers this account of early Palm Springs and includes mention of the origin of its name. The reader will find it to be a delightful item, faithfully observant of the facts attending Palm Springs’ beginnings. Included, also, is his exquisitely beautiful sketch of the artist Carl Eytel ...” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.157).


LOCKETT, H.C. ALONG THE BEALE TRAIL. A Photographic Account of Wasted Range Land, Based on the Diary of Lieutenant Edward F. Beale, 1857... Photographs by Milton Snow. (Lawrence, Kansas): U.S. Office of Indian Affairs, (1940). Obl. 24mo, 56pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. ¶ Second edition, first issued in 1939. Juxtaposing diary descriptions with current photographs, the author documents changes in the landscape after 81 years since Beale\'s famous journey. Not in Edwards.


LOCKWOOD, Frank C. MORE ARIZONA CHARACTERS... Tucson: University of Arizona, 1943. 12mo, 79pp, b/w photo-illus. Yellow wrappers, lettered in blue. Mild toning and soiling at covers. Nearly fine. ¶ An expansion of the Murdock pamphlet of 1933, adding biographies on Horace C. Grosvenor, Al Sieber, Captain John Hance, and John Lorenzo Hubbell. General Bulletin No. 6.


LOELTZ, O.J.; Burdge Irelan; J.H. Robison and F.H. Olmsted. GEOHYDROLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF THE IMPERIAL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. Water Resources of Lower Colorado River - Salton Sea Area. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1975. 4to, iv, 54pp, photo-illus., text map and diagrams, two large folding plates in pocket at back. Printed wrappers. ¶ Includes large (36 by 18-1/2 in.) “Map Showing Water-Level Altitude in 1965, Geology, and Location of Wells and Springs, Imperial County,” and “Graphic Logs of Test Wells and Holes, Imperial Valley, California.” Geological Survey Professional Paper 486-K.


LONG, Margaret. ENCHANTED DESERT. [The Author], 1942. 12mo, 42pp. Tan cloth and tan dust jacket, both stamped in brown. ¶ First Edition of a collection of desert poems including Dust Devils, Desert Filling Station, Blow-Outs, Graves, The Road to Yuma, The Road to Niland, etc. From the foreword we learn “Margaret Long is a lover of the American desert country Š the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, the wide stretches of Arizona and New Mexico. . .‘Anne Martin and I’ she says, ‘were the first women to enter Death Valley alone . . . armed with nothing more formidable than a map.’ This was in 1921, when that most beautiful part of our deserts was still terra incognita to the traveler, and when a National Park, there, was still undreamed in the future.”


LONG, Margaret. THE SHADOW OF THE ARROW. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1941. 8vo, 310pp, frontispiece, 24 full-page photo-illus. plates, 5 maps in pagination. Pictorial cloth in dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. The author traces the geographical routes traversed by the emigrants of 1849 through Death Valley and to the Coast and includes several important first hand accounts, including the first appearance of the “Log” of Sheldon Young. “Dr. Long has put together a carefully-written and authentic account of Death Valley, coupled with intelligent exploratory finds of the physical routes traversed by the emigrants of 1849... Here is a vigorous first-hand contribution to Death Valley literature; one of the best, in my opinion, that has ever been made available. I would rate it among the first half-dozen Death Valley items of paramount importance” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.159).


LONG, Margaret. THE SHADOW OF THE ARROW. Caldwell: The Caxton Press, 1950. 8vo, 354pp, frontispiece, 24 full-page photo-illus, 5 maps in pagination. Pictorial cloth in dust jacket. ¶ Second edition, revised and enlarged.


LORTON, William B. OVER THE SALT LAKE TRAIL IN THE FALL OF ‘49 Introduction by John B. Goodman. Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1957. 20 unnumbered pp, text illus. Orange boards with printed label. ¶ One of 150 copies printed for members of the Zamorano Club as a keepsake from John B. Goodman III and Gordon Holmquist. The heart of the book is the five-page letter Lorton wrote on his arrival in Los Angeles in 1850 after crossing the Mojave Desert and Cajon Pass. The letter, originally published in the New York Sun, provides the only known roster of the personnel of the Pinney-Savage party of the Death Valley \"49ers. The third volume in Goodman’s Scraps of California series. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.159-160. Kurutz 406.


(Los Angeles Aqueduct). KELLY, Allen. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT, with Map, Profile and Illustrations. [Cover title: Pictorial History of the Aqueduct]. Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Printing & Binding House, 1913. Oblong 8vo, unpaginated (25pp text & ca 105pp of b/w photos. Wrappers.


(Los Angeles Aqueduct). MULLHOLLAND, William; Allen Kelly; & the Board of Public Service Commissioners. COMPLETE REPORT ON CONSTRUCTION OF THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT. With Introductory Historical Sketch. Los Angeles: Department of Public Service City of Los Angeles, 1916. 4to, 319, (11)pp, frontispiece portrait, 23 folding plates, additional illustrations, b/w photographs, large folding map & maps in text. ¶ Edwards notes a Final Report, same year, of 332pp.


(Los Angeles Aqueduct). TAYLOR, Raymond. MEN, MEDICINE & WATER. The Building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 1908-1913. A Physician’s Recollections. Los Angeles: Friends of the LACMA Library, 1982. Oblong 8vo, 202pp, b&w port. frontis. & numerous b&w photos, title printed in blue & black. Orig. blue cloth. ¶ First Edition, limited to 1000 copies. Los Angeles Department of Water & Power assisted in the publication of this finely produced book designed by Ward Ritchie & printed at the Castle Press, Pasadena.


LOVELACE, Leland. LOST MINES AND HIDDEN TREASURE. San Antonio: The Naylor Compnay, 1956. 8vo, vii, 252pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.160: “...one of the very best items in this category... a book rich in Indian legend and desert lore. Every yarn in this excellent collection stimulates an irresistble urge to grab pick and shovel, load the old burrow, and venture forth on the eternal quest for hidden riches.” Powell, Arizona Gathering, notes Lovelace was a pseudonym for Mrs J. Lee Loveless. We have seen up to a ninth printing, and a reprint by Ace paperbacks.


LUMHOLTZ, Carl. NEW TRAILS IN MEXICO. An Account of One Year’s Exploration in North-Western Sonora, Mexico, and South-Western Arizona 1909-1910. New York: Scribner’s, 1912. 8vo, xxv, 411pp, color frontispiece of the Santa Catalina mountains, dozens of plates (2 in color), 2 folding maps housed in rear pocket. Original red cloth decorated in black, a very good copy. ¶ First Edition. This important history of part of the south-west includes a good deal on the Papago Indian tribe and their customs, language, habits, games etc; local fauna and flora; and geological data on the Papagueria. Goldsmith, Brief BibliographyÉLatin Americana, p.61.


LUMMIS, Charles F. MESA, CANON AND PUEBLO. Our Wonderland of the Southwest - Its Marvels of Nature - Its Pageant of the Earth Building - Its Strange Peoples - Its Centuried Romance New York: the Century Company, (1925). 8vo, xvi, 517pp, frontispiece & ca. 100 photographic plates, fold-out map of “Main Auto Roads” of the Southwest. Decoratively stamped brick red cloth, the design repeated on the dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, signed, of one of Lummis’ best books, being an expanded verions of his 1892 Some Strange Corners of Our Country. Mainly on Arizona and New Mexico, the chapters “Our Own Sahara” and :”Death Valley” relate to the California deserts. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.160: “The publication may be classed among the best of Lummis... It is worthy of mention that the author’s description of the horrors attendant upon thirst is exceptionally well done.”


LYMAN, Edward Leo. SAN BERNARDINO: the Rise and Fall of a California Community. Salt Lake City: Signature Booksm 1996. 8vo, xiii, 469pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ In the mid-1800s San Bernardino emerged as one of the largest settlements in southern California. But as a Mormon commune, the farthest outpost in Brigham Young\'s Rocky Mountain empire, the colony was threatened, and finally abandoned in 1857 during the Utah war with the United States.


MacDOUGAL, Daniel Trembly. Daniel Trembly MacDougal (1865-1958) began working at The New York Botanical Garden in 1899 as Director of the Laboratories and was promoted in 1904 to an Assistant Directorship. He was recognized as the leading American authority on desert ecology and was one of the first botanists to research chlorophyll. He is also remembered as the inventor of the MacDougal dendrograph, an instrument used for recording changes in the volume of tree trunks. Born in Indiana in 1865, MacDougal received a masters from DePauw and went on to receive his Ph.D. from Purdue University, followed by post-doctoral studies in Leipzig and Tubingen. He was employed by the United States Department of Agriculture to collect specimens in Idaho and Arizona during the summers of 1891 and 1892. He taught plant physiology at the University of Minnesota from 1893 until he left in 1899 to come to The New York Botanical Garden. After seven years at the Garden, MacDougal left to become Director of Botanical Research at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. He remained at the Carnegie Institution until his retirement in 1933. While at The New York Botanical Garden, MacDougal served on a committee to establish a tropical research laboratory. This led to the establishment in 1905 of the Plant Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. He was appointed its first director and it would later become part of the Carnegie Institution. In 1907, MacDougal organized the Pinacate expedition to study the lava fields of Mexico with Godfrey Sykes and William Hornaday, (cf. Hornaday). In 1909, he established a coastal botanical lab in Carmel and became known as an expert on the Monterey pines. In 1912 he teamed up with Sykes again to cross the Libyan desert.


MacDOUGAL, Daniel Trembly. BOTANICAL FEATURES OF NORTH AMERICAN DESERTS. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1908. 8vo, 2, 111pp, 62 full page plates, 3 maps. Wrappers.


MacDOUGAL, Daniel Trembly. DELTA AND DESERT VEGETATION. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden No. 53. New York, 1904. 8vo, pp.[43]-63, 6 photo. illus. in text. Printed wrappers. ¶ First Separate, “Reprinted from Botanical Gazette, 38: 44-63, July, 1904.”


MacDOUGAL, Daniel Trembly. NORTH AMERICAN DESERTS [extracted from:] The Geographical Journal, Vol. XXXIX, No.2, [London]: February, 1912. 8vo, 18pp, 8 b/w photo-illus. plates, 1 large fold-out map laid in. Disbound. ¶ The large folding map consists of two parts: “Sketch Map to Illustrate a Paper on North American Deserts,” below which is a graph compiled by Godfrey Sykes, “Rainfall at the Desert Laboratory Tucson, Arizona, 1904-1910.


MacDOUGAL, Daniel Trembly. THE DELTA OF THE RIO COLORADO. New York, 1906. 8vo, 16pp, 4 photo. illus. & 1 map in the text, plus folding frontispiece map of the Delta Regions by Godfrey Sykes. Original wrappers. ¶ First separate printing, from Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden, No. 77, itself reprinted from the Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, January, 1906.


MacDOUGAL, Daniel Trembly. “The Delta of the Rio Colorado... With Map by Godfrey Sykes.” [In:] Bulletin of the American Geographical Society. Vol. XXXVIII. No.1 New York: January, 1906. 8vo, 64, (2 blank), iv, (2), 767-790 index pp, folding map, 4 b/w photo-illus., 2 text maps. Orig. green wrappers, lettered in black. ¶ First Edition of MacDougal’s article. The map, “Map of the Delta of Rio Colorado and Adjacent Regions,” covers Yuma and the border at the North to the Gulf at the South.


MacDOUGAL, Daniel Trembly; William Phipps Blake; Godfrey Sykes; et al. THE SALTON SEA, A Study of the Geography, the Geology, the Floristics and the Ecology of a Desert Basin, with Collaborators. Washington D.C.: Carnegie Institution, 1914. 4to, ix, 182pp, 32 plates & folding maps, 4 text figures. Orig. printed wrappers. ¶ Only Edition of the first thorough scientific work on the Salton Sea. Of particular importance is William Phipps Blake’s The Cahuilla Basin and Desert of the Colorado, written in 1908 just prior to his death; this is, remarkably, the Blake of the Pacific Railway Survey whose observations of the region began in 1853 and extended to his last visit in 1906 shortly after the flooding. Also of interest is Godrey Syke’s Geographical Features of the Cahuilla Basin which covers the early explorers and mapmakers. Sykes was the Geographer of the Desert Laboratory. MacDougall’s adds his Movements of Vegetation Due to Submersion ... to other’s articles on the botany, chemistry, and geology of the area. “A work of basic importance...” (Farquhar, Colorado River, 88). Cf. Edwards p.29 who apparently lacked a copy.


MAILER, Norman. DEER PARK 1955. ¶ First Edition of the author’s third novel. An arty director and an aspiring writer meet in Desert D’Or which is Palm Spring as surely as Chandler’s Bay City is Santa Monica. The plot revolves around two love affairs, one between the celebrated film director and the mistress of a successful producer, the other between a beautiful young star and an ex Air-Force pilot. ‘Beneath the colorful surface of life in a California movie colony, The Deer Park treats such eternal and absorbing questions as: What is sex? What is love?”


MAJORS, Alexander. SEVENTY YEARS ON THE FRONTIER. With a Preface by Buffalo Bill. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1893. 8vo, 325pp, frontisportrait & numerous plates & text illus. Cloth. ¶ First Edition, with an early account of Death Valley, appearing before Manly’s book. Includes interesting material on wagon freighting - Majors freighted on his own from 1848 to 1855 and then joined the famous partnership of Russell, Majors & Waddell. In his early years he traveled the Santa Fe Trail, but the later partnership was noted more for its role in the Utah War, the Overland Mail, and the Pony Express. Reprinted in 1950. Cowan p.412. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.161-62. Howes M-232.


MANLY, William Lewis. DEATH VALLEY IN ‘49. San Jose: Pacific Tree & Vine Co., 1894. 8vo, 498pp, frontis & 3 plates. Orig. ochre cloth stamped in black. ¶ First Edition. “Classic account, by a survivor, of dire sufferings endured by an emigrant party on a short-cut from Salt Lake City to California through the valley called ever after by this fearful name” (Howes M255). Cowan p.412. Edwards, The Enduring Desert, pp.162-163. Kurutz 427a. Zamorano Eighty no.51. Wheat, Gold Rush, 136.


MANLY, William Lewis. DEATH VALLEY IN ‘49. Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1929. ¶ Third edition.


MANLY, William Lewis. DEATH VALLEY IN ‘49. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1927. 12mo, xxiii, 307pp, frontis. & small folding map. Blue green cloth. ¶ Second edition of the Death Valley classic; No. 25 in the Lakeside Press series.


MANLY, William Lewis - Arthur Woodward, editor. JAYHAWKERS’ OATH and Other Sketches. Selected and Edited by Arthur Woodward. Los Angeles: Warren F. Lewis, 1949. 8vo, xii, (2), 168pp, frontispiece, 18 leaves of plates, large folding map at back. Beige cloth, endpaper illustrations, illustrated dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, reprinting some 50 short articles by Manly from The Pioneer, a newspaper published at San Jose from 1877 to 1904. Part 2 of the book is on the lost mines; Part 3 relates to life inthe mines; Part 4 is a pioneer miscellany; and Part 5 reprints Mrs Edwar Burrell’s letter on the excape of the Wade family from Death Valley in ‘49. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.163-64. Paher 1227.


MANN, Bill. GUIDE TO 50 INTERESTING AND MYSTERIOUS SITES IN THE MOJAVE. Volume 1. Barstow: Shortfuse, (1998). 4to, (6), vi, 80pp, color photo-illus. throughout. Fine. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author. Covers areas around Afton Canyon, Barstow, Black Canyon, Crucero, Opal Mountain, Yermo, Baker and Rodman Mountains.
GUIDE TO 50 INTERESTING AND MYSTERIOUS SITES IN THE MOJAVE. Volume II Covers Newberry Springs, Baker, Turquois Mountain, Shoshone, Tecopa, Valley Wells and Mountain Pass.


MANNING, Jacolyn. LAW IN DEATH VALLEY. 1931. 8vo, 61pp. ¶ A drama of the desert containing four plays of which two are set in Death Valley.


MANNING, Reginald West. WHAT KINDA CACTUS IZZAT? A “Who’s Who” of Strange Plants of the Southwest American Desert. New York: J.J. Augustin, 1949. 8vo, (4), 101, (1)pp, b/w cartoon drawing throughout. Cloth illustrated in green, red, and black. ¶ First published in 1941, and several times thereafter. the amusing drawings are by the author.


MARCY, E.L. RESURRECTION OF DEATH VALLEY. Maywood, Calif.: W.R. Beaumont, 1966, 8vo, 47pp, photos &line drawings, maps. Wrappers. ¶ A bizarre proposal to inundate Death Valley. “The idea is not new. A chimerical plan, in many respects analogous to the Marcy conept, evolved int he fertile brains of two other engineers - James and Stretch - nearly a hundred years ago. Only their idea seemed a bit more feasible - at least in the telling of it. The proposed turning the waters of the gulf of California into the Colorado Desert and Death Valley” (Edwards, Enduring Desert p164.)


MARCY, Randolph B. THE PRAIRIE TRAVELER. The Prairie Traveler. A Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions. With Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and Pacific. New York: Harper, 1859. 12mo, frontispiece, folding map, 10 full-page wood engravings, numerous text illustrations. Original brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. ¶ First Edition. Marcy’s Guide was the standard for emigrants over the Western trails for many years. Itinerary 6 covers the route from Salt Lake to Los Angeles via the Mojave Desert and “Cahoon” Pass’ and no. 15 covers the route from Ft Yuma to San Diego via Vallecito and Warner’s Ranch. Pages 308-14 detail Whipple’s route from Albuquerque to San Pedro, including desert passage from the Colorado River over the Mojave, while pages 315-77 cover his route from Yuma to Benicia via Algodones, Alamo Mocho, Deep Well and the San Gorgonio Pass. Howes M 279. Sabin 44514. Wagner-Camp 335:1. Wheat, Mapping the Transmississippi West, 984, obsrving the map to be one of the best on the gold regions. The London Edition of 1863 was edited with notes by Richard F. Burton.


MARTIN, Douglas D. YUMA CROSSING. Illustrations by Horace T. Pierce. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1954. 8vo, xi, (3), 243pp, illus. by Horace T. Pierce. Tan cloth, green dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. The Yuma crossing of the Colorado River was the only southern gateway to California in the days of Alarcon and Coronado to the coming of the railroad. Includes material on mountain men, the Army of the West, the Mormon Battalion, and the Butterfield Overland Mail. “The book, together with Corle’s The Gila and Wallace’s The Great Reconnaisance, comprise the notable triumverate of publications devoted to the region roundabout the junction of the Colorado and Gila Rivers” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.165-66).


MARTINEAU, James H. A TRAGEDY OF THE DESERT.


MASON, William and James Carling. WHERE SHALL WE GO? A Guide to the Desert... Illustrations by Bee Nicoll. Westwood Village, Los Angeles: the Authors, (1941). 12mo, (4), 62pp, half-title vignette, 14 full-page maps, text illus. Orig. gray wrappers, lettered in red. ¶ Second revised edition, first published 1939. A charming guide to short excursions out of Palm Springs


MAXSON, John H. DEATH VALLEY - Origin and Scenery. Bishop: Chalfant Press, 1963. 8vo, 59pp, maps, line drawings & phots. Wrappers. ¶ A geological guide for the layman.


MAXWELL, Ernie. PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS. Idyllwild: Ernie Maxwell, 1988. 8vo, 64pp, photos throughout. Illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


McADAMS, Henry E. “Early History of the San Gorgonio Pass, Gateway to California.” Los Angeles: University of Southern California, 1955. ¶ Unpublished MA thesis, Dept of History.


McCOY, William. THE VALLEY OF THE SUN. New York: H.K. Fly Company, (1921). 8vo, 308pp. Orange-tan cloth with pictorial title in black. ¶ First Edition of a Western novel set in the Mojave Desert and Death Valley. Baird & Greenwood 1598. Hinkel p.235. Melcon p.35.


McDANIEL, Bruce. DUNE AND DESERT FOLK. Los Angeles: Swetland Publishing Company, 1926. 8vo, 31pp, photo. illus. throughout. Boards, with the scarce dust jacket reproducing the tinted illustration on the boards. ¶ First Edition of amusing sketches of desert trees and shrubs. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.167.


McDANIEL, Bruce W. CALIFORNIA DESERT HAUNTS. Published by the Swetland Publishing Company, Distributed by The Bureau of Research and Service, Los Angles, (1926). 16mo (3-1/4 x 6-1/4 in.), 16pp. ¶ First Edition of a booklet extolling the deserts of Southern California. McDaniel describes Thousand Palms, Creeping Dunes, Palm Springs, Cottonwood Springs, Painted Canyon, Devils Garden, the Salton Sea, and the Morongo Valley. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.167.


McDANIEL, Bruce W. THE DESERT. God’s Crucible. Boston: The Gorham Press, 1926. 4to, 118pp, illustrated throughout, with 36 photographs. Gilt stamped brown cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a handsome book of desert poems and photographs, signed by the poet on the endpaper in 1926. McDaniel, who lived in Redlands, wrote Dune and Desert Folk in the same year.


McDONALD, Douglas. BODIE, Boom Town Š Gold Town. the Last of California’s Old-time Mining Camps. Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, (1988). 8vo, 47, (1 ads)pp, b/w illus. throughout. Wrappers. ¶ In 1859 a German prospector from New York, William S. Bodey, found a vien of gold, but the town didn’t boom until 1877.


McGINNIES, William G. DISCOVERING THE DESERT: The Legacy of the Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981. 8vo, xviii, 276pp, illus. Wrappers. ¶ Sketch of the work of the Desert Botanical Laboratory, established in Tucson, Arizona, in 1905. Daniel Trembly MacDougal was appointed its first director and it would later become part of the Carnegie Institution.


McGLASHAN, H.D. & H.J. Dean. WATER RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA, Part III. Stream Measurements in the Great Basin and Pacific Coast River Basins... Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. 8vo, 956pp, 2 b/w photo-illus. plates, 2 maps, tables throughout. Black buckram, spine lettered in gilt. ¶ Water Supply Paper 300.


McGROARTY, John Steven. A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura. California, Southern California Panama Expositions Commission, (1914). 4to, 263pp, sepia-tone illus. throughout. Brown wrappers with illustration of arches, palm trees and sea-side in embossed color. ¶ First Edition. McGroarty (1862-1944), the author of numerous books and dramas, was elected poet laureate of California in 1933. A poem submitted to the Los Angeles Times lead to a friendship with its publisher, Harrison Gray Otis, and to work as a journalist and editorial writer for the Times. In 1906 he became editor of West Coast Magazine which he edited until 1914.


McGROARTY, John Steven. A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Comprising the Counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura. Fresno: California History Books, 1975. 4to, 275pp b/w illus. throughout. Black cloth, gilt. Very good. ¶ Reprint edition, of value for the new 11pp index.


McGROARTY, John Steven. IMPERIAL COUNTY (California).


McKEE, Ruth Eleanor. CHRISTOPHER STRANGE. Garden City: Doubleday, 1941. ¶ First Edition of a novel containing interesting material on Palm Springs (the author’s mother was an early settler). “A young graduate of the Harvard Law School, representing the older culture of the East, joins in the overland trek to the California gold fields in 1850. His polish and Yankee ingenuity see him through the turbulent years of the Vigilante movement, the boom and bust of the mining economy, and he survives to come a link between the two cultures of East and West” (Baird & Greenwood 1625).


McKENNEY, J. Wilson. ON THE TRAIL OF PEGLEG SMITH’S LOST GOLD: Legend and Fact Combined to Provide Fresh Clues to the Location of Pegleg Smith’s Famous Lost Mine. Palm Desert: Desert Press, 1957. 8vo, 50pp, frontispiece, 19 b/w photo-illus. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition. “This is a refreshingly different version of the ubiquitous Pegleg and his elusive mine. McKenney endeavors to correlate several of the more reliable versions into the semblance of a sensible interpretation of Pegleg’s rather dubious claim to having found gold. More important than the lost mine study are McKenney’s descriptive passages relating to the Colorado Desert” (Edwards, Eduring Desert, p.168).


McKINNEY, Marshall. VANISHING FOOTPRINTS From the Hot Desert Sand: Remembrances of a 90 Year Old Palm Springs Pioneer. Horse and Wagon Days on the Southern California Desert. A Historical Autobiography... [Privately Printed] McKinney, 1996. 8vo, (10), 245pp, a few photo illus. in the text. Grey cloth stamped in black. ¶ First Edition, one of 250 numbered copies, this copy inscribed by the author on the endpaper.


McNICHOLS, Charles L. CRAZY WEATHER. New York: Macmillan, 1944. 12mo, (10), 195pp. Brick red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of the author’s first novel, with 4-page folding “Book-of-the-Month Club News” offprint ad sheet laid-in. A novel of Indian life set in the Mojave Desert and Colorado Rivery Valley.


MEAD, Elwood. REPORT OF IRRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS FOR 1900. Bulletin No. 104 of U.S. Department of Agriculture. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1901. 29 full page plates (7 maps) and 26 text illustrations. ¶ Important material on irrigation and water rights, including Los Angeles, the Yuba River, King, San Joaquin, Susan, Cache Creek, Salinas River, San Jacinto River and Sweetwater River.


MEAD, Elwood. REPORT OF IRRIGATION INVESTIGATIONS IN CALIFORNIA. Bulletin 100. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1902.


MEEKS, Eric. THE WITCH OF TAHQUITZ: Facts and Legends of the Village of Palm Springs. Palm Springs: The Author, 2004


MEINZER, Wyman. THE ROADRUNNER. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, (1993).


MENDENHALL, Walter C. 320 DESERT WATERING PLACES IN SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA. Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1983. ¶ Reprint by Stanley Paher of U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 224, Washington 1909, discussing the characteristics, climate, and water supply of the Southern California deserts; 323 springs are located and described, all numbered to correspond with location numbers appearing on the large map.


MENDENHALL, Walter C. DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERGROUND WATERS IN THE EASTERN COASTAL PLAIN REGION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905. 8vo, 162pp, 2 b/w photo-illus. plates, 5 folding maps laid-in. Orig. brick-red wrappers. ¶ First Edition of a detailed study of water resources and uses around Las Bolsas, San Antonio, Los Coyotes, Los Cerritos, and Los Alamitos. Water Supply Paper 137.


MENDENHALL, Walter C. HYDROLOGY OF SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY, California. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905. 8vo, 124, (4)pp, folding map, 11 b/w photo-illus. plates, 3 folding maps housed (as issued) in rear pocket. ¶ First Edition. Water-Supply and Irrigation Paper No.142. Mentions Arrowhead, Eden, Relief, Ritchie and Harlem Hot Springs, as well as the Urbita thermal well. The maps are “Changes in Artesian Areas and Water Levels in the San Bernardino Basin” (17 by 12 in.); “Artesian Areas in the Valley of Southern California” (28 by 19 in.); and “Hydrologic Map of San Bernardino, Redlands, and Vicinity, Showing Irrigated Lands” (31 by 20 in).


MENDENHALL, Walter C. SOME DESERT WATERING PLACES IN SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHWESTERN NEVADA. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909. 8vo, 98pp, 6 plates, pocket map of desert region laid in. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition of U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 224, discussing the characteristics, climate, and water supply of the Southern California deserts; 323 springs are located and described, all numbered to correspond with location numbers appearing on the large map. Includes short descriptions of Figtree John’s springs in Riverside County, Fish Springs in Imperial County, and Paradise Springs in San Bernardino County. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.169-170: “Of special interest to lovers of the High Desert country roundabout Twentynine Palms, Yucca and Morongo Valley, and Joshua Tree, is this account’s early descriptions of the area; the earliest in fact ... save the one by George Wharton James in his Wonders of the Colorado Desert.”


MENDENHALL, Walter C. “The Colorado Desert.” [In:] National Geographic Vol. XX, No. 8, August, 1909. Pp.681-701, with 16 illus. in the text. In whole issue in orig. tan wrappers. ¶ This early piece is well written and provides general information on the Colorado Desert area. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.169.


MENDENHALL, Walter Curran. GROUND WATERS OF THE INDIO REGION CALIFORNIA, With a Sketch of the Colorado Desert. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909. 56pp, 17 plates, 2 loose maps in end-pocket. ¶ First Edition. “This is one of the informative and highly important Water-Supply Papers... relates to the exploration and development of the Colorado Desert, its geography, geology, water resources, and reclamation development. The photographic plates illustrate and enhance the text” (Edwards). Edwards, Lost Oases, p.96; Enduring Desert p.169.


MENDENHALL, Walter Curran. PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE GROUND WATERS OF SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. 8vo, 52pp, folding map. Orig. brick red wrappers, lettered in black. ¶ First Edition. Water-Supply Paper 222.


MERRILL, Frederick J. MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL AND SAN DIEGO COUNTIES. San Francisco: California State Mining bureau, 1914. 113pp, illus. ¶ “Mineral deposits and mining activities in the desert areas of Julian, Dulzura, and elsewhere are discussed. Most important, desert-wise, is the section on ‘Desert Springs and Wells’. Here may be found interesting early data on Clark Well, Borrego Springs, Seventeen Palms Springs, Vallecito Springs, Hanna Well, Agua Caliente Springs, Mountain Palm Springs, Palm Springs (San Deigo Co.), Mason Ranch, Carrizo Station, Mountain Springs, and Jacumba Springs. In the section on Imperial County the mining operations in the Cargo Muchachos, Tumco, Pacacho, and Coyote Mountain are mentioned. Under the Imperial County section on Desert Springs and Wells are listed Soda Springs, Fish Springs, Frinks Springs, McCain Springs, Harper (Mesquite) Well, Kane Spring, Coyote Well, Yuba Springs and Sunset Springs” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.170).


MERRILL, Orin S. “MYSTERIOUS SCOTT”, The Monte Cristo of Death Valley and Tracks of a Tenderfoot Through the New Goldfields of Nevada. Supplemented with a Mining Review of Southern Nevada. Chicago: The author, (1906). 8vo, 211pp, 6 pages of ads, photo-illus. Pictorial wrappers, slight wear, spine faded. ¶ First Edition. “Most valuable ... are chapters relating to his midsummer’s trip through Death Valley. It is in these dramatic pages that we glimpse an intimate descriitpon of this mor formidable region as it appeared before civilization spread over it the entwork of pavements and directional signs. We gain a restrospective view of a primitve land that relentlessly fought off its invaders with weaps that, for age upon age, had been forged int the tremendous crucible of God” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.170-71). Reprinted Chicago: Chalfant Press, 1972.


METZLER, May Sowles. DATE COOK BOOK. International Festival of Dates Souvenir Edition. [N.p.: n.p.] (1921). 16mo, 83pp, frontispiece, 8 pages of ads. Orig. pictorial wrappers. ¶ Editions of this date cookbook were published in 1919 and 1921. Glozer 190.


METZLER, May Sowles. DATE RECIPES. Teaches the Use of Coachella Valley Dates Both Fresh and Cooked. (Coachella: Coachella Valley Submarine), (1929). 16mo, 61, (1 index), (1 map)pp, b/w illus. Orig. pictorial wrappers, ¶ Glozer 190.


METZLER, May Sowles. DESERT MEMORIES, and Other Verse. Pasadena: Login Printing and Binding Company, 1951.


MILES, Clark. THE ORIGINAL DESERT ALMANAC. Northridge: Northridge Press, (1955).


MILLER, Alden H.; Stebbins, Robert C. LIVES OF DESERT ANIMALS IN JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL MONUMENT. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1964. 8vo, 452pp, photo. plates, several in color. ¶ The definitive treatise on the subject. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p171.


MILLER, George. TRIP TO DEATH VALLEY. [In:] Historical Society of Southern California Annual Publication Vol. XI, Part 2, 1919.


MILLER, Ronald Dean. MINES OF THE HIGH DESERT. Revised Edition... Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1968 8vo, 72pp, frontispiece, b/w illus. throughout, 3 maps. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ “A capable account of the early mining activities neary Twentynine Palms - the Dale, Supply, Brooklyn, Lost Horse, Gold Park, Losy Spanish, Iron Chief, Iron Age, and others. The book does not confine itself to a rigid discussion of mines and mining, but dips enterainlingy into the early days of freighting along the Banning-Dale road, with stops at the Old Adobe at Twentynine Palms and Warren’s Ranch (Morongo) and Well (Yucca Valley” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.171-72). Second printing, first published in 1965 with 63 pages.


MILLER, Ronald Dean and Peggy Jeanne. CHEMEHUEVI INDIANS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Banning: Malki Museum, (1967) ¶ Malki Museum Brochure No. 3


MILLER, Ronald Dean & Peggy Jeanne MINES OF THE MOJAVE. La Siesta Press, 1976.


MILLER, William J. CALIFORNIA THROUGH THE AGES. The Geologic Story of a Great State. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1957. 8vo, 264pp, 108 illus. Cloth. ¶ Excelent geological study of California, with sections on the Mojave and Colorado Deserts. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.172.


(Mines and Minerals). “Mines and Minerals of Imperial and San Diego Counties.” [In:] State of California Mineralogist’s Report, 1914.


(Mining). MINING IN CALIFORNIA. San Francisco: State of California Division of Mines, October, 1931.


MITCHELL. IN DESERT KEEPING. London: 1905 ¶ Baird & Greenwood 1774.


(Mitchell Caverns).


(Mitchell Caverns). MITCHELL, Jack. JACK MITCHELL, CAVEMAN. Torance: 1964. 8vo, 164pp, 16 illus, maps. Wrappers. ¶ Mitchell’s own account of his twenty years at the Mitchell Caverns in the Mojave Desert. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.172-73.


(Mitchell Caverns). MITCHELL, Jack. KEEPERS OF THE CAVES: A True Account of Twenty Years of Modern Pioneering. [Tales of the Mojave Road, Number 23]. Goffs: Tales of the Mojave Road Publishing Company, 2003.


MITCHELL, John D. LOST MINES AND BURIED TREASURE - Along the Old Frontier. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, 1954. 8vo, 240pp, endpaper map. cloth. ¶ First Edition,by the author of Lost Mines of the Great Southwest, 1933. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.173.


MITCHELL, Roger. DEATH VALLEY JEEP TRAILS Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1969. 8vo, 36pp, map, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition, with photographs by the author!


MITCHELL, Roger. EXPLORING JOSHUA TREE, A Guide to Joshua Tree National Monument, Telling of its History, Plant and Animal Life and How to Explore it by Auto and by Foot. Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1967. 8vo, 36pp, 1 text map, 1 double-suite map, b/w photo-illus. Publ. pictorial wrappers. ¶ Second edition, first issued in 1964. Cf Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.174.


MOCKEL, Henry & Beverly Mockel. HOT AIR FROM THE DESERT: Recollections of the Northeast and the Southwest... Twentynine Palms: (the Authors), (1968). 4to, (4), 108, (1), 4 full-page plates, b/w illus. throughout. Brown cloth, lettered in black. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by the authors. Four hors texte color plates after original serigraphs by Henry Mockel depict native wildflowers.


MODELSKI, Andrew M. RAILROAD MAPS OF NORTH AMERICA: The First Hundred Years. New York: Bonanza Books, (1987). Obl 4to, xxii, 186pp, 92 facsimile maps, b/w photo- and text illus. Publ. maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket, slightest waving to pages throughout, mild 1-1/2 inch indent at upper board, otherwise a nearly fine, clean copy in like dj. ¶ Reprint, originally published by the Library of Congress in 1984. Maps from the United States, Canada and Mexico printed between 1828 and 1919 are represented, each with description and commentary.


MODELSKI, Andrew M. RAILROAD MAPS OF THE UNITED STATES, A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Original 19th-Century Maps in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. Washington: Library of Congress, 1975. 4to, v, (1), 112pp, b/w illus. Publ. orange wrappers, lettered in black, illus. vignette. ¶ 622 maps are listed and briefly described; there is a 13pp historical survey.


MODESTO, Ruby and Guy Mount. NOT FOR INNOCENT EARS. Spiritual Traditions of a Desert Cahuilla Medicine Woman. Cottonwood: Sweetlight Books, 1989. 8vo, 120pp, misc b&w photo-illus. Photo-illus. wrappers.


(Mohave Indians). THE MOJAVE OF THE COLORADO. The Story of the Mojave Indians of the Colorado River and Their Meetings with the Explorers of the Southwest. Sausalito: Pages of History, 1960. 8vo, 23, (1 bibliography)pp, b/w illus. throughout. Orig. illus. wrappers.


(Mohave River Basin). DAVENPORT, Lawrence, ed. MOHAHVE Volumes 1-5). Vol. 1 issued by the Victor Valley College in an edition of 500. Apple Valley: Mohahve Historical Society, 1963 on. 4to, bound in wrappers. ¶ First Edition. The spelling of of Mojave derives from Fremont in entering the name of the rive on his map in 1844. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.174-76.


(Mojave Desert). California Interstate Telephone Company. ROMANTIC HERITAGE OF THE MOJAVE.


(Mojave River Valley). ROMANTIC HERITAGE OF MOJAVE RIVER VALLEY. A Saga of Transportation and Desert Frontiers. [N.p.]: (California Interstate Telephone Company), (1961). 12mo, (12)pp, illus. throughout, map verso front cover. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ Boosterish historical sketch, discusses mining, railroads, Dagget, and Barstow, the “Intersection of Opportunity.”


(Mollhausen, Baldwin). WILD RIVER, TIMELESS CANYON: Baldwin Mollhausen’s Watercolors of the Colorado. Ft Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1995.


(Mollhausen, Baldwin). BARBA, Preston A. BALDWIN MOLLHAUSEN, The German Cooper. Philadelphia: 1914.


(Mollhausen, Baldwin). TAFT, Robert. “Pictorial Record of the Old West.” Reprinted from The Kansas Historical Quarterly XVI, 3, August, 1948. 8vo, pp.225-244 + 6 plates. White wrappers with Mollhausen drawing of Ive’s steamboat.


MOLLHAUSEN, [Heinrich] Baldwin. DIARY OF A JOURNEY from the Mississippi to the Coasts of the Pacific with a United States Government Expedition. With an Introduction by Alexander von Humboldt. Translated by Mrs Percy Sinnett. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858. 2 vols, 8vo, xxx, (1), 352; x, (2), 397, (1)pp, folding map outlined in color, 11 chromolithograph plates and 12 woodcuts. Orig. red cloth, recased, the spines expertly repaired to style, slight dampstain to vol. 2. A very good set. ¶ First English Edition of a highly important account of the explorations in the American West and of Indian life. Mollhausen made three visits to Western America: 1849-52, 1853-54; and 1857-58. On the second trip he accompanied the Whipple Expedition as artist and naturalist and a number of the plates in the Whipple report were lithographed from his drawings. On his third visit he traveled with Ives on the Colorado River expedition and his sketches are also lithographed therein. The handsome map illustrates the route of the expedition from Ft Smith, Arkansas, through the Indian territories in the Southwest to California. Howes M-713. Farquhar, Colorado River, 19 (“Mollhausen’s sketches are often admirable). Sabin 49915. Wagner-Camp 305. Wheat, Transmississippi West, 4: map 956.


MOLLHAUSEN, [Heinrich] Baldwin. TAGEBUCH EINER REISE VOM MISSISSIPPI DEN KUNSTEN DER SUDSEE. Leipzig: Hermann Mendelssohn, 1858. 4to, (12), xiv, (2, half-title), 494pp, (2, map details)pp, 7 chromolithographic plates, 6 tinted lithographs, all after Mollhausen, folding engraved map after Henry Lange at the back, 10 woodcut text illustrations. Orig. publisher’s brown cloth with blind-stamped geometric borders on covers, gilt cover and spine lettering. ¶ First Edition of a seminal work of Western Americana and the most important work of this notable German artist and author. Mollhausen accompanied the Whipple expedition in 1853 for the Pacific Railroad Survey investigating a potential route along the 35th parallel and his account is to be preferred over the officially published report. This took the party across northern New Mexico and Arizona and the work is notable for its plates of the Pueblo Indians and Mollhausen’s account of them. In addition, there is an account of his experiences in the West in 1851 on a trip from St. Louis to Laramie with Prince Paul of Wurttemberg.

“Mšllhausen not only wrote personal narratives describing his three exploring trips in Western America, made many sketches from nature during these periods, but as the result of his personal experiences in the West, gave the major share of his adult life to the profession of letters. He wrote no less than 45 novels or short stories. To be sure, this literary output was not confined to the Western scene as a background, but the original impetus for Mšllhausen’s career came from his Western experiences. Indians, the plains, Utah and the Mormons, gold and California, the Santa Fe Trail, the Civil War, the South, the Great Lakes, the sea were all used in his literary output. So frequent were the parallels between Mšllhausen and Cooper that Barba, his biographer, calls Mšllhausen ‘the German Cooper.’ It seems probable that Mšllhausen’s work, like Cooper’s, was strong in description of scenery and surroundings, but the characters introduced were stiff and stylized, and Mšllhausen’s plots were frequently complicated and bizarre. The narratives of personal experience written by Mšllhausen are, however, documents of first-rate importance and the illustrations he drew to accompany them enhance their value. In addition, these narratives contribute to our biographical knowledge of the author. The sketches made by Mšllhausen are here of primary concern and can conveniently be treated according to his three trips to America\' (Robert Taft, in the Kansas Historical Quarterly, August, 1948 (Vol. 16, No. 3).

Howes M-713. Sabin 49914. Taft, Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, pp.22-35. Wagner-Camp 305:1. Wheat, Gold Rush, 145. Wheat, Transmississippi West, 4: map 955. There were also editions in Dutch, 1858-59, Swedish, 1857, Danish, 1862.


MOORE, Thomas W. BODIE: GHOST TOWN. Cranbury, NJ: A.S. Barnes, 1969. 4to, 95pp, misc b&w and color photo-illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition.


MOORMAN, J.J. MINERAL SPRINGS OF NORTH AMERICA; How to Reach and How to Use Them. New York: Lippincott, 1873. 8vo, 294, 22pp ads for various mineral springs, folding frontispiece map of “The Springs Region in Virginia,” folding map, woodcut plates. Orig. cloth. ¶ First Edition with this title (an edition from 1867 was titled The Mineral Waters of the United States and Canada). While focussed on the eastern half of the country, chapter XLII is devoted to mineral springs between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean, with a page on California, including an early description of thermal phenonoma in the Salton Sink and a mention of Warner’s Hot Springs: “Le Conte describes a number of volcanic springs in the desert of Colorado, in Southern California... They are in the neighborhood, and but six or eight miles distant from a range of volcanic hills form 800 to 1000 feet high. These springs consists of ‘numerous circular lakes, containing boiling mud, and exhaling a naptha-like odor. Many of them are incrusted with inspissated mud, forming cones three to four feet high, from the apex of which proceed mingled vapors of water, sal-ammoniac, and sulphur. Four of them eject steam and clear saline water, with great violence, resembling in appearance the jet from the pipe of a high-pressure engine.’ These springs are in a muddy plain, bordering on a saline lake. ¶ A hot sulphur spring, of the temperature of 137 Fahr. exists near Warner’s Rancheria, about ninety miles form the Colorado, in South California.”


MOREHOUSE, William Russell. MYSTICA ALGOOAT. An Indian Legend and Story of Southern California. Franklin, Ohio: The Editor Publishing Co., 1903. 8vo, 200pp. Red cloth, gilt lettering. ¶ First Edition of two tales set in the mountains above Palm Springs. “Part I is the legend of Tauquitz, the evil demon of the Sabola Valley Indians, for whom Tauquitz Peak, or Devil’s Peak, is named. Part II is the story of an expedition to the summit of the peak to invoke the demon” (Baird & Greenwood 327)


MORHARDT, J.E. DEATH VALLEY POEMS. Bishop: Chalfant Press, 1951. Sm. 8vo, (40)pp, unpaginated, printed from typescript in brown ink. Illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition, with illustration and photographs by the author. “Aim” Morhardt, a self-proclaimed diletante traveled with Zane Gray as a photographer and later taught school in Bishop, all the while prospecting, exploring and drawing the desert around Death Valley.


MORIARTY, James R. THE DISCOVERY AND EARLIEST EXPLORATIONS OF THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA. Reprinted from: Times Gone By, the Journal of San Diego History, Vol. XI, No.1, January, 1965. 8vo, 19pp, b/w illus. and maps. White wrappers, lettered in black. ¶ Only separate printing of this article.


MORRILL, Frank L. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, A Description of San Bernardino County. Los Angeles: Express Printing Co., 1886.


MORRIS, Madge. LURE OF THE DESERT and Other Poems. 1917.


MORRISON, Lorrin L. WARNER, THE MAN AND THE RANCH. Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1962. 8vo. 87pp, 25 photographic reproductions, maps, illus. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition, focussing on the the ranch and Warner himself, with quotations from his Reminiscences, including an account of his early trapping experiences with Ewing Young in 1831. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.177-78.


MORTON, Paul K. GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA... With Data on Geothermal Resources by C. Forrest Bacon and James B. Koenig (1971). Sacramento: California Division of Mines and Geology, 1977. 4to, viii, 104pp, b/w photo- and text illus., maps and charts, large color folding map housed in pocket at rear. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ County Report 7.


MOTT, Orra Anna. THE HISTORY OF IMPERIAL VALLEY. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1922. 8vo, 145pp. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.178.


MUIRHEAD, Desmond. PALMS. Six Shooter Canyon, Globe, AZ: Dale Stuart King, 1961. 8vo, 140pp, misc b&w photo-illus. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


MULLALLY, Larry & Bruce Petty. SOUTHERN PACIFIC AND LOS ANGELES 1873 - 1996. (San Marino): Golden West, (2002). 4to, 286pp, 580 illus., maps. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ “The Southern Pacific in Los Angeles (1873-1996) is a living souvenir to the 123 years this great railroad operated in Los Angeles and Southern California. This volume covers historically and pictorially all the events that happened to the Southern Pacific over the 123 year period. It covers the early days up through the diesel era. It features the stations, the yards, the roundhouses, the shops, the freight and passenger operations, the locomotives, both steam and diesel, which made the Southern Pacific the most powerful railroad in the Far West.”


MUNGO, Ray. PALM SPRINGS BABYLON; Sizzling Stories from the Desert Playground of the Stars. New York: St. Martin\'s Press, 1993. 8vo, (viii), 215pp, b/w photo illus. throughout. Color wrappers.


MUNK, Joseph]. .A. SOUTHWEST SKETCHES. With 133 Illustrations. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Knickerbocker Press, 1920. 8vo, xi, (1), 311pp, frontispiece, 132 b/w photo-illus. (on 66 plates). Publ. pictorial cloth. ¶ First Edition. Includes some material on the Salton Sea area and the reclamation project, as well as much on Arizona, the cliff dwellers, Southern California, ranching and irrigation. Chapter 10 - “Big Irrigation Projects” - deals with the Salton Sea area and Chapter 11 bears on the climactic conditions of the Colorado Desert. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.178.


MURBARGER, Nell. GHOSTS OF THE GLORY TRAIL [Intimate Glimpses into the Past and Present of 275 Western Ghost Towns]. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, (1956). 8vo, 291pp, illus. Cloth, dust jacket design by Margo Gerke. ¶ First Edition of “a magnificent contribution to desert literature, and its comes superbly written. In my knowledge there is no other book that describes so adequately and yet so charmingly the subject of desert ghost towns. The author chooses Nevada and Utah as her locale; the California reference is in the nature of a descriptive ‘Ghost town Directory’ to some seventeen of our State’s ghost towns. The introductory chapter, ‘Ghost Country,’ is a classic in desert literature” (Edwards, Enduring Desert p.179).


MURBARGER, Nell. History of Palm Springs, in: Palm Springs Pictorial, 1953.


MURBARGER, Nell. SOVEREIGNS OF THE SAGE. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, 1958. 8vo, 342pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a collection of true stories of people and places in the great sage brush kingdom of the West, primarily Nevada. Paher, Nevada: An Annotated Bibliography, 1348. Cf. Edwards, Enduring Desert p.179.


MURDOCK, John R. ARIZONA CHARACTERS IN SILHOUETTE. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona State Teachers College Bulletin No. 9, November, 1933. 8vo, 100pp, b/w line drawings throughout. Printed wrappers. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by the author. Includes sketches of Coronado, Father Kino, Anza, Padre Garces, James Ohio Pattie, Pauline Weaver, Major Powell, Jacob Hamblin, Charles Trumbull Hayden, et al. The sketches first appeared in the Arizona Republic of April and May, 1933. Adams, Six Guns, 1571.


MURPHY, Thomas D. ON SUNSET HIGHWAYS. A Book of Motor Rambles in California. Boston: Page, 1925. 8vo, 376, (4 ads)pp, 16 color & 40 duogravures plates, 1 folding map. Original grey pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt, green & orange, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. The author describes the beauty of the golden state as he explores regions newly accessible to the public with the arrival of the automobile, illustrated with color plates of paintings by Thomas Moran, George Howell Gay, Percy Gray, and other California Plein Air painters. Interesting material on Imperial County and the San Diego back country. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.180.



MYRICK, David F. RAILROADS OF NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA: Vol. 1, The Northern Roads. Vol. 2, The Southern Roads. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1962-63. 2 vols, 4to, cloth. ¶ First Edition, reprinted Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1992. “This superb work is a classic in the literature of our western deserts. Primarily, it is the definitive account of western railroads - 43 of them in Northern Nevada, 26 in Southern Nevada... Valuable as are these books in their relation to the railroad operations in Nevada and California, their usefulness as authoritative reference sources embraces a much broader scope. Wherever these rails were laid, there also could be found the towns and villages of yesterday” Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.180-81.


NADEAU, Remi. CITY MAKERS. Garden City: Doubleday, 1948 8vo, xii, 27opp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition (so stated) of one of the best account of the development of Los angeles, with frequent desert references. The author was the grand-son of the famed mule freighter of Cerro Gordo. The 1965 reprint adds numerous photographs. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.181-82.


NADEAU, Remi. THE WATER SEEKERS. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. 8vo, 309pp, map, illus. endpapers. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of the first book offering an overall account of Los Angeles’ search for water. The first part deals with the Owens Valley aqueduct and the second part with the Colorado River, particularly the break in 1905-06 together with the accomplishment of reclamation project in Imperial Valley. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.182: “One cannot read this without experiencing fine entertainment; one cannot emerge from that reading without having achieved a surer understanding of the subject to which the author has so successfully applied his effort.”


NEIHARDT, John G. SPLENDID WAYFARING, The Story of the Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith and His Comrades, the Ashley-Henry Men, Discoverers and Explorers of the Great Central Route From the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean New York: Macmillan, 1920. 8vo, 290pp, map, photographs & illus. Orig. green cloth. ¶ “This is one of that distinguished quartet of books relating to the exploits of Jedediah Smith, the other three being Dale’s account of the Ashley-Smith Explorations, the Sullivan item - Travels of Jedediah Smith and Morgan’s Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West. Splendid Wayfaring is the most readable of the four; however it touches only briefly upon the Mojave Desert crossing” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.182).


NEUTRELLE, Robert E. SAN DIEGO COUNTY, A Bibliography. Ramona: Acoma Books, 1974. 4to, (2), 22ff, photo-reproduced typescript printed recto only. Orange wrappers, lettered in black with map vignette. Nearly Fine. ¶ First Edition.


NEWELL, F[rederick] H[aynes]. “The Salton Sea.” [In:] The Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1907. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. 8vo, pp.331-345, folding frontismap & 6 plates. ¶ Newell (1862-1931) is remembered, along with Francis Newlands, Gifford Pinchot and John Wesley Powell, as a pioneer in the movement to reclaim the American West and as a principal architect of the Reclamation Act of 1902. While in the employ of the U.S. Geological Survey, Newell became chief engineer of the newly organized U.S. Reclamation Service (now the Bureau of Reclamation) in 1902. After Reclamation Service broke away from the Survey in 1907, Newell became the first director of the new organization.


NIEMANN, Greg. PALM SPRINGS LEGENDS. San Diego: Sunbelt Publications,


NIXON, Roy W[esley] and J.B.Carpenter. GROWING DATES IN THE UNITED STATES. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978. 8vo, (4), 63pp, b/w photo. illus. throughout. Green wrappers. ¶ Publ. No.207 of the U.S. Dept of Agriculture, prepared by the Science and Education Administration (formerly the Agricultural Research Service) treating the botany, agriculture, and harvest of the Colorado Desert date, with a useful 8 page bibliography. “Revised August 1978.”


NORDHOFF, F.W. FRUIT OF THE EARTH. New York: [the author] Vantage Press, 1959. 8vo, 159pp. Publ. gray cloth, spine lettered in blue, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. “This is a book of short sketches, beautifully done, of desert and mountain areas... Desert Water Holes, Desert Oddity, Desert Vacation, Palm Springs, etc.” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.183).


NORDLAND, Ole J. COACHELLA VALLEY’S GOLDEN YEARS; The Early History of the Coachella Valley County Water District and Stories about the Discovery and Development of this Section of the Colorado Desert. Indio: Coachella Valley County Water District, 1978. 4to, 88pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Orig. photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ First edition of this fascinating miscellany filled with early photographs.


NORDLAND, Ole J. COACHELLA VALLEY’S GOLDEN YEARS; The Early History of the Coachella Valley County Water District and Stories about the Discovery and Development of this Section of the Colorado Desert. Indio: Desert Printing, 1978. 4to, 120pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Orig. yellow, photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ Revised edition.


NORRIS, Frank. MCTEAGUE, a Story of San Francisco. New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899. 8vo, 442pp. Red cloth. Bookplate. Very good. ¶ First Edition of Norris’ masterpiece, considered by many critics, including H.L. Mencken, as the greatest of all American novels. Without the first issue point “moment” last word on p.106 cited by BAL but not mentioned by McElrath, who says second printing, bulks 1-3/32. BAL 15031. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.183. Zamorano Eighty 58.


NORRIS, Frank. McTEAGUE. A Story of San Francisco. Introduction by Charles G. Norris. Illustrations by Otis Oldfield. An Exact Printing of the Text from the First Edition. San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941. Lg. 8vo, (10), 390, (1, colophon)pp, drawings in ink. Decorative boards, linen spine. Slight wear to extremities, otherwise fine & unopened in very good slipcase. ¶ One of an edition of 500 copies, published and designed by Jane Grabhorn and William Matson Roth. The Colt Press edition was the first reprint to follow the original text, retaining Norris’ description of Owgooste’s embarrassing accident at the end of Chapter VI. “McTeague, one of Norris’ earliest novels, has been considered as perhaps his strongest work. He began it while a student at the University of California, but most of it was written during his year as a special student at Harvard” (A Century of California Literature 86). Lohf 7 Sheehy 12. Not in Grabhorn Press Bibliography.


NOSSER, James B. et al. DEATH VALLEY TALES San Bernardino: Inland Printing & Engraving,


NOYES, Alfred. BEYOND THE DESERT. A Tale of Death Valley. New York: Stokes, (1920). 8vo, 85pp. cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a novelette by the English poet. “A dramatic story of the Desert, telling of an I.W.W. leader, escaped from prison, who is lost in Death Valley... presents the case against the Bolshevik principle in human terms more compelling than cold argument:” (from the jacket blurb). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.183. Baird & Greenwood 1924.


O’CONLEY, Mary Ann. UPPER MOJAVE DESERT. A Living Legacy. Detroit: Harlo Press, (1969). 8vo, 112pp, 31 b/w photo-illus. Yellow cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of this rich regional history source, inscribed by the author. Along with photos of early days in Mojave country, are tales of Baker Grade, the road to Los Vegas, hijinks in the high desert, and the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad story.


O’NEAL, Lulu Rasmussen. A PECULIAR PIECE OF DESERT: The Story of California’s Morongo Basin. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1957. 8vo, 208pp inc. photo. plates, map endpapers. Red cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, limited to 450 copies. “...our one definitive treatise on the increasingly popular High Desert country embracing the area in - and adjacent to - the Morongo and Yucca Valleys, Twentynine Palm, and the Joshua Tree National Monument. The material in this item is intelligently assembled, carefully documented, and entertainingly presented...” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.186.


ODELL, Grace Loomis. A PIECE OF BALING WIRE. Homesteading in the Desert. Barstow: Mojave River Valley Museum, 2000. 8vo, xiii, 180pp, misc b&w photo-illus. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition, revised second printing.


ODENS, Peter. DRAMA IN THE SUN. Tales from the Imperial Valley. Calexico: Calexico Chronicle, 1965. 8vo, 64pp, misc b&w photo-illus. Illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition, with chapters on the Cargo Muchach Mines, the Mormon Betallion, the Carrizo Corridor, etc. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.184.


ODENS, Peter. FIRE OVER YUMA: Tales from the Lower Colorado... With Photographs by the Author. (Yuma: Southwest Printers), (1966). 8vo, 59pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


ODENS, Peter. PICACHO (Life and Death of a Great Gold Mining)... With a Foreword by Paul Gillett... (El Centro, Calif.: the Author), (1982). 8vo, (10), 44pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Yellow wrappers, lettered in red, pictorial vignette. ¶ Second printing, first issued in 1973.


ODENS, Peter. PIONEERLAND BELOW THE SEA... With Photographs by the Author. Sketches by Buachom Odens. Calexico: Calexico Chronicle, 1970. 8vo, 55pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Orig. pictorial yellow wrappers, lettered in orange and red. ¶ Inscribed by the author.


ODENS, Peter R. THE DESERT’S EDGE. Benson, AZ: Border-Mountain Press, (1977). 8vo, 105pp, misc. b&w photo-illus. Illus wrappers, owner’s label. ¶ First Edition, Inscribed by the Author on half-title who here discusses the geology, people, mining, lost mines, and stories of the escarpment that drops from thousands of feet to below sea level extending from Northern Baja up through Southern California. With an inscribed invoice from the author to an owner of this copy laid in.


OERTLE, Lee V. SALTON SEA RECREATION GUIDE. Palm Desert: Desert-Southwest Publications, 1964. 8vo, iv, 57pp ,photo-illus. in text. Pictorial wrappers.


OERTLE, Lee V. SALTON SEA SHORELINE GUIDE. Palm Desert: Desert-Southwest Publishing Co., 1964. 8vo, 48pp, photo-illus. in text. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.185.


OLANDER, Ann. CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS: The Beauty and Legacy of Southern California’s San Jacinto, San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains. Las Vegas, NV: Stephens Press, 2005.


(Old Ranger). DEATH VALLEY TALES AS TOLD BY AN OLD RANGER. 1934.


OLIVER, Harry. 99 DAYS IN THE DESERT WITH SANDY WALKER. Corona: Green Lantern Print Shop, ca. (1943). 8vo, 42pp. Wrappers. ¶ A compilation of articles from the author’s newspaper column “Desert Briefs.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.185.


OLIVER, Harry. DESERT RAT SCRAP BOOK.


OLIVER, Harry. DESERT ROUGH CUTS. A Haywire History of the Borego Desert. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1938 8vo, 64, (2)pp, with wooducts by the author. boards backed in linen. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert p.185.


(OLIVER, Harry). ROESSEL, Amy Fern and Mary Alice Ballenger (eds.). THE OLD MIRAGE SALESMAN. A Whimscal [sic] Desert Digest of Refreshing Nonsense, Heralding the Life of the Southwest’s Foremost Story-Telling Desert Rat Harry Oliver... Editor, Humorist, Historian, Publicist, Pioneer, Philosopher, Prospector, Showman, Builder, Hermit and Secessionist. Compiled by his Daughters Amy and Mary. Palm Springs: The Printery, [n.d., ca. 1967]. 8vo, 111pp, frontispiece, title in black and brown, over 200 text vignettes and historiated initials, some in brown. Publ. tan buckram, lettered in green, dust jacket. ¶ Autographed Edition, signed and numbered by the author. An anthology of wit and wisdom from the California desert. (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.185).


(Oliver, Harry). STOHLER, Betty J. A KISS FOR THE DESERT FROM HARRY OLIVER. Indio: Desert Printing Co., (1978). 8vo, xv, 203pp, illustrated. Wrappers. ¶ First Printing, Autograph Edition.


OLMSTEDT, F.H.; O.J. Loeltz et al. GEOHYDROLOGIC OF THE YUMA AREA, Arizona and California. Washington DC: 1973.


OLSEN, D.B. [pseud. of Dolores Hitchens]. BRING THE BRIDE A SHROUD - A Crime Club New York Selection London: Francis Aldor, 1945. 8vo, 184pp. Dark blue cloth,, gilt title, illustrated dust jacket. ¶ First British Edition. In this mystery a wealthy lady is murdered in a fictional southern California desert hotel. Baird & Greenwood 1175. Barzun & Taylor 1665.


OLSEN, D.B. [pseud. of Dolores Hitchens]. THE CAT AND THE CAPRICORN. New York: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Co., 1951. 8vo, 191pp. Jacket art by Margot Tomes. ¶ First Edition of a mystery involving the sleuth Rachel Murdock and her pet cat at a California desert dude ranch. Baird & Greenwood 1176.


OLSON, Reuel Leslie. THE COLORADO RIVER COMPACT... [N.p.]: The Author, 1926. 8vo, xxiv, 527pp, 4 photo-illus. plates, 1 facsimile illus. Blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. ¶ Second printing of Olson\'s doctoral thesis presented to the Division of History, Government, and Economics at Harvard University, June, 1926.


ORMSBY, Waterman L. THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL. San Marino: Huntington Library, 1942.


ORMSBY, Waterman L. THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL. San Marino: Huntington Library, (1988). 8vo, xv, 179pp, folding plate with text recto and verso, map, b/w illus. ¶ First Edition in wrappers.


(Pacific Coast Borax Co.) HIGH SPOTS OF DEATH VALLEY DAYS. Pacific Coast Borax Co, 1939. 65pp. Wrappers. ¶ Six stories produced as plays fo r the radio program “Death Valley Days.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.187.


(Pacific Railroad Survey 3). WHIPPLE, Lt. A.W. (with Thomas Ewbank, Wm. W. Turner, & William Phipps Blake). REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4... Volume III. Washington: Beverley Tucker, Printer, 1856. 4to, 4 sections: (2), 36, (v)-x, viii, 36 [i.e. 136], 77, (3 blank), (2), 127, (1 blank), vii, (7), 175pp, 20 color-tinted lithographic view plates, 2 b/w fossil plates, 8 barometric reading charts, 2 color folding geological sections, 1 color folding geological map, b/w text vignettes throughout. Orig. dark brown cloth, stamped in blind. ¶ Volume III of the Pacific Railway Survey, Senate issue. This volume contains extracts from Lieutenant A.W. Whipple’s preliminary report, and Parts I-IV of his final report, covering the itinerary, the topographical features, and the Indian tribes. William Blake provides his report on the geology of the route from the Colorado river to San Pedro. Mollhausen was the artist on this expedition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.29Hasse 62. Wagner-Camp 263.


(Pacific Railroad Survey 5). WILLIAMSON, R.S.; W.P. Blake, et al. REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4... Volume V. Washington: A.O.P. Nicholson, Printer, 1856. 4to, 4 sections and appendix: (16), 43, (3 blank), xvi, (2), 370, (2), xiii (index), (1 blank), 15, (1 blank), (6), 14 (appendices)pp, 26 color-tinted lithographic views, 8 color geological charts (7 folding, containing 14 total sections), 9 b/w fossil plates, 11 b/w recent shell plates, 28 b/w botanical plates, 3 color map plates, 1 folding color geological map of California. Quarter calf over marbled boards, morocco label at spine. ¶ Volume V od Pacific Railway Survey, House of Representatives issue. This volume includes the first known written description of Palm Springs, and the first view of Los Angeles. Chapter 17 (pp.228-252) is devoted to the Colorado Desert. “Dr. Blake’s contribution in Vol. V is definitely indispensable.... as much a part of the Colorado Desert as the sand that covers it. The Blake section on geology, and the Willliamson comments, do not constitute a comprehensive treatise nor one so entertainingly written as, for example, the James or the Chase. It is early source material, however; and it represents the initial effort to assemble scientific and technical information regarding this barren land” (Edwards). Appendix B includes C.H. Poole’s Report upon the Route from San Diego to Fort Yuma via San Diego River, Warner’s Pass and San Felipe Canon. “The first assignment for the Railroad Survey on the Pacific Coast was the location of practicable passes through the southern Sierra Nevada to connect with the surveys of the 35th and 32nd parallels. Lieutenant Williamson and his assistant, Lieutenant John G. Parke, accompanied by A.L. Heermann, surgeon and naturalist; and other scientists, including the renowned cartographer Charles Preuss, who had been a member of three of John C. Fremont’s five expeditions. Although Walker’s Pass had long been spoken of as a natural gateway into California’s Central Valley, Williamson’s examination proved it unacceptable for railroad construction. Only Tehachapi Pass into the Mojave Basin, and Canada de las Uvas seemed practicable. Cajon Pass was thought to be usable with the construction of a tunnel; and San Gorgonio Pass to the east of San Bernardino would be satisfactory. Unfortunately, Williamson found no feasible route between the Gila River and San Diego, which put a dampener on the notion of the 32nd parallel route. Lieutenant Parke found that there was a good route between San Francisco and Los Angeles, upon which, ultimatley, the Southern Pacific Railroad built its tracks” (Wagner-Camp 264). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.29-30. Howes P-3.


(Pacific Railroad Survey 7). Parke, John G.; Albert H. Campbell; & William P. Blake. REPORTS OF EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for a Railroad from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean. Made under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-6... Washington: Beverley Tucker, Printer, 1857. 4to, 5 sections: 22, (2), 42, 204, 28, 116, 37, (3 blank), (1 errata)pp, 8 color-tinted lithographic view plates, 10 b/w marine fossil plates, 14 b/w geological section plates, folding color geological plan of California Coastal Range, folding color geological section, 8 b/w botanical plates, 11 meteorological charts. Orig. dark brown cloth, ¶ Volume VII of the Pacific Railway Survey, Senate issue. This volume includes Dr. Antisell’s “Geological Report of the Mojave River Valley and of the District from San Diego to Fort Yuma,” and the reports of Lt. John G. Parke and Charles Poole. “Noteworthy are the careful descriptions given of the important watering places known as Almo Locho (or Mucho) and Cooke’s Well, as recorded sometime between 1853 and 1856, or from eight to ten years after the initial passages of Keanry and Cooke. Again, as in Vol 5... a vague but certain reference is made ot the High Desert country.” Poole, Chief Engineer for the expedition, reports written in 1853-56, appears as appendix B and cover the route along the wagon road via Warner’s Ranch, Warner’s Pass, San Felipe Valley, thence to the Colorado River. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp. 10, 188, 199. Wagner-Camp 265.


(Pacific Railroad Survey - octavo ed.) BLAKE, W.P. PRELIMINARY GEOLOGICAL REPORT. PACIFIC RAILWAY SURVEY REPORTS, House Exec . Doc. 129, 1855. 80pp


PAHER, Stanley. COLORADO RIVER GHOST TOWNS, Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, 1976.


(Palm Canyon). PALM CANYON INFORMATION. (Banning: Banning Record/Master Printers), [n.d., ca. 1925]. 24mo, 4 pages, including photo-illus. title wrapper. ¶ Brochure with 3 pages of text, cover illus. with view of Palm Canyon and William J. Maloney on horseback. Printed at the Banning Record.


(Palm Spring Architecture). PALM SPRINGS HISTORIC ARCHITECTURAL HIGHLIGHTS. (Palm Springs: Historic Site Preservation Board), [n.d., ca. 1990]. Narrow 8vo, (20)ff, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ Describes 18 sites.


(Palm Springs). ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST. 1970.


(Palm Springs). PALM SPRINGS AND VICINITY. Palm Springs Drug Co., [n.d., ca 1930s].


(Palm Springs). PALM SPRINGS PICTORIAL. Annual Edition. Vol. Eight. Palm Springs News, 1937-38. 4to, color wrappers.


(Palm Springs). PALM SPRINGS VILLAGER.


(Palm Springs). PALMS SPRINGS AND THE MAGNIFICENT CALIFORNIA DESERT EMPIRE. Palm Springs: Western Resort Publ., (1986).


(Palm Springs). THE PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT RESORT AREA STORY. (Riverside: A-to-Z Printing), 1955. 8vo, 80pp, b/w illus. throughout. Pictorial wrappers, lettered in red and black, related material laid-in. ¶ Advertising booklet featuring approx. 80 local businesses, each with accompanying illustration. Interspersed is a brief “History of Palm Springs” by Melba Bennett, as well as short articles on the local Indians, places of interest, etc. Two contemporary advertising pamphlets, one dated 1953, are laid-in.


(Palm Springs). TOWN AND COUNTRY [Periodical] February 1978, Palms Springs Issue. New York: Hearst Corp., 1978. ¶ Special Edition.


(Palm Springs - Desert Inn). SANDS OF TIME (Palm Springs: The Desert Inn), [n.d., ca. 1950]. 12mo, 32pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Wrappers, upper in silver with illus. vignette. ¶ Brochure in celebration of the 26th season of The Desert Inn.


(Palm Springs - Desert Inn). THE DESERT INN, Palm Springs California. (Palm Springs: The Desert Inn): [n.d., ca. 1926]. 4to, (8)pp, including wrappers, b/w photo-illus. and text vignettes throughout, map. Pictorial wrappers, stapled and folded in half lengthwise (as issued). ¶ In addition to describing luxurious yet rustic amenities, this promotional brochure notes that “a standard nine-hole grass course is under construction and will be ready for play early in 1927,” certainly among the earliest golf courses in the Coachella Valley. The wrappers depict desert cliffs in bright rainbow hues, repeated so as to appear at both sides of the brochure when folded.


(Palm Springs). JAFFE, Sam (ed.) PALM SPRINGS PICTORIAL. Palm Springs: Limelight-News, 1942-43. 4to, color wrappers.


(Palm Springs Life). PALM SPRINGS LIFE. Palm Springs: The Chaffey Company, 4to, color illus. wrappers. ¶ Various issues.


(Palm Springs Map). MAP OF PALM SPRINGS CALIFORNIA. [Palm Springs]: (Rufus J. Chapman Real Estate), [n.d., ca. 1950]. Sheet measuring 8 by 24 inches, b/w map recto, descriptions with photo-illus. vignettes verso, vertical folds making six sections. ¶ Map depicting 22 realty tracts and developments of Palm Springs.


(Palm Springs Map). PALM SPRINGS & VICINITY. Palm Springs: The Desert Inn, [n.d., ca. 1930]. Sheet measuring 18 by 22 inches, map recto, descriptions verso, folded into 12 sections. Mild wear at edges, some clean tears along folds, otherwise very good. ¶ Detailed map depicting Coachella Valley in the south-west to the regions beyond Cadiz Dry Lake in the north-east; enlarged section focuses on Palm Springs and Palm Canyon.


(Palm Springs - Oasis Inn). THE OASIS, Palm Springs California. (Palm Springs: The Oasis), [n.d., ca. 1935]. Obl. 16mo, (8)pp, including wrappers, b/w photo-vignettes throughout. Photo-illus. wrappers, stapled and folded in half lengthwise (as issued). ¶ Advertising brochure for this early Palm Springs resort.


(Palm Springs - resorts). DEEP WELL GUEST RANCH. Palm Springs: 1942. Color broadsides for this dude ranch.


(Palm Springs Water Company). PALM SPRINGS WATER COMPANY. Palm Springs: [n.d., ca.


PALMER, T.S. CHRONOLOGY OF THE DEATH VALLEY REGION IN CALIFORNIA, 1849-1949: An Index of the Events, Persons, and Publications Connected with Its History. (Washington, D.C: Byron S. Adams), 1952. 8vo, 25pp. Orig. wrappers, lettered in black. ¶ First Edition. “This item stand alone in its field, and supplies a type of information and reference that is indispensable to any well-blanced collection of desert material... Dr Palmer, one of the country’s leading authorities on Death Valley, was a member of the Death Valley Expedition in 1891; revisited it in 1938, after a lapse of 47 years” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.188).


PALMER, T.S. PLACE NAMES OF THE DEATH VALLEY REGION IN CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA. 1948. 80pp. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition. “...high on the list of of basic items having to do with Death Valley. It is reported that only 200 of these books were printed, of which 50 copiies were offered for sale” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.188-89). Reprinted Morongo Valley: Sagebrush Press, 1980.


PALMER, William J. REPORT OF SURVEYS ACROSS THE CONTINENT, in 1867-68 on the 35th and 32nd Parallels. Philadelphia: W.B. Schelheimer (Printer), 1869. 8vo, 25opp, 2 large folding maps of the route surveys. Cloth. ¶ “Under Gen. Palmer’s supervision, 100 men... participated in this important railway survey that opened vast areas of the West to the public knowledge. For the present-day reader this Report assumes considerable significance, and for reasons not comptemplated by its author. Insofar as I have been able to determine, it constitutes the first printed account of the High Desert region where now flourish the attracive communities of Twentynine Palms, Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, and Morongo Village. It must be noted that the Washington Survey notes of 1856 were not reduced to printed form” (Edwards). Palmer includes the report of Dr C.C. Parrry, Geologist with the Survey, in which James White is described as the first man to make the passage of the entire length of the Grand Canyon (the white Narrative is printed in full). the author also makes fequent mention of Death Valley, one of earliest to use that name. Farquhar, The Colorado River. Edwards, enduring Desert, pp.189-90.


(Panamint News). PANAMINT CITY, the California Comstock. (Los Angeles: The Westerners, March 1988). 8vo, two 4-page, nearly full-sized facsimile reprints of the Panamint News (Vol. I, Nos. 9 and 39), laid-in to printed wrappers, with brief text by George Koenig. ¶ Keepsake No.27.


(Panamint Valley). ARCHAEOLOGY IN PANAMINT DUNES, 1983: An Archaeological Survey of Portions of Panamint Dunes, Panamint Valley, California, Including an Overview of Existing Archaeological Data, and an Evaluation of the Significance of Cultural Resources Related to the Dunes Ecosystem (Volume One: Text and Figures), by Clark W. Brott, [et al] ... [and] LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION AND HUMAN GEOGRAPHY IN PANAMINT VALLEY... [by] Christopher Raven [and] ENVIRONMENTAL AND PALEOENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES IN PANAMINT VALLEY. Edited by Emma Lou Davis and Christopher Raven. Ridgecrest/San Diego: US Department of the Interior/ Great Basin Foundation, 1983-86. 3 vols, 4to, b/w photo-illus. and maps throughout. Tan wrappers with illus. vignettes. ¶ The second and third works constitute “Contributions of the Great Basin Foundation” Nos. 1 and 2.


PARCHER, Marie Louise and Will C. Parcher. DRY DITCHES. Line drawings by B.G. Purdy. foreword by W.A. Chalfant. Bishop: the Parchers, (1934). 8vo, 41pp. Printed paper over boards. ¶ First Edition of these stories from the Owens Valley, written after the completion of the acqueduct that caused much of the Owens Valley to turn barren. In his foreword Chalfant notes it “was written from the heart.” Reprinted by Chalfant Press, 1970


PARKER, Horace. ANZA BORREGO DESERT GUIDE BOOK. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, 1957. ¶ “Everyone interested in traveling, on this or any other desert, should own this distinctive guide book” (Edwards, Lost Oases, p.97).


PARKER, Horace. ANZA-BORREGO DESERT GUIDE BOOK. Southern California’s Last Frontier... Maps by Jack P. Welch. Balboa Island: Paisano Press, 1969. 8vo, 139, (2 ads)pp, 1 folding map, b/w photo-illus. throughout. ¶ Third Edition, first issued in 1957 and revised in 1963. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.191-92: “One of the most attractive and conveniently arranged guide books ever to come off the press. The photographs are of extraordinary value, particularly because fo their historical importance.”


PARKER, Horace. THE FIRST SIXTY YEARS of Guenthers Murrieta Hot Springs... Balboa Island: Paisano Press, (1961). 8vo, 36pp, photo. illus. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition. “From the year 1797, when the first known white man visited the hot springs, the important events of historic interest are traced, by date, to 1902, when Fritz Guenther purchased Murietta Hot Springs. From that year forward its development under the one family ownership and management is narrated and illustrated” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.192).


PARKER, Horace. THE HISTORIC VALLEY OF TEMECULA. Balboa Island: Paisano Press, 1965.


PARSONS, George W. THOUSAND MILE DESERT TRIP and Story of the Desert Sign Post. 1918. 8vo, 16pp, illustrated. Light brown wrappers. ¶ Parsons was instrumental in posting directional signs in the Mojave desert.


PATENCIO, Chief Francisco - as Told to Margaret Boynton. STORIES AND LEGENDS OF THE PALM SPRINGS INDIANS...as Told to Margaret Boynton. Los Angeles: Times-Mirror, (1943). 8vo, xiv, (2 blank), 132pp. Red buckram stamped in gilt. ¶ First Edition. Harry James warns that “By the time Patencio told his stories and his experiences to Margaret Boynton so much extraneous material had crept into his accounts as to make it difficult indeed to sieve the wheat from the chaff. However, the little book does contain some interesting legends about certain places in the eastern end of Coachella Valley and in the San Jacinto Mountains.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.193.


(PATENCIO, Francisco [Cahuilla Chief]). HUDSON, Roy F. (ed.). DESERT HOURS WITH CHIEF PATENCIO... with Illustrations by Bill Hemerdinger. Palm Springs: Desert Museum, 1971.


PATTERSON, Tom. A COLONY FOR CALIFORNIA: Riverside’s First Hundred Years. (Foreword by John G. Gabbert; Maps by Janet Bailey). Riverside: Press-Enterprise, 1971.


PATTERSON, Tom. LANDMARKS OF RIVERSIDE AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM. Riverside: Press-Enterprise, 1964.


PATTIE, James O. PATTIE’S PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OT THE PACIFIC AND IN MEDICO, June 20, 1824-August 30, 1830. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, 1905. ¶ Early Western Travels Series, Volume 18.


PATTIE, James O. THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF JAMES O. PATTIE OF KENTUCKY... Edited by Timothy Flint. Cincinnati: Printed and Published by John H. Wood, 1831. 8vo, xi, (1), 13-300pp, 5 plates. ¶ First Edition, of excessive rarity. Pattie’s travels in the Colorado Delta region are described on pp.133-165. The plates are found facing pp.29, 117, 133, 165, and 181. “The Patties arrived in California in 1828. On reaching San Diego, they were arrested by order of Echeandia, the governor, their passports being destroyed, and the party most unjustly imprisoned. The incarceration lasted for some time, during which the elder Pattie died. According to the narrative, the hardships endured were almost incredible. Flint, the editor, was a well-known writer of both history and fiction; but he avers that no alterations were made in the original accounts. This expedition has been erroneously described as the first overland journey to California, but the expedition arrived under Jedediah Smith antedates it by several months” (Cowan (1914) p.174. Howes P-123. Streeter 3138. Wagner-Camp 45. DAB XIV, pp.310-11.


PATTIE, James O. THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF JAMES O. PATTIE OF KENTUCKY... Edited by Timothy Flint. Cincinnati: E.H. Flint, 1833. 8vo, xi, (1), 13-300pp, 5 plates. ¶ Second edition, identical in all respects other than imprint and date. E.H. Flint, son of the original editor, evidently came into possession of the unsold copies of the first edition, printed a new title, and copyrighted the book again in his own name. Both Howes and Wagner have noted four variant copyrighted notices. Howes P-123. Streeter 3139. Wagner-Camp 45:2.


PATTIE, James O. THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF JAMES O. PATTIE OF KENTUCKY. Edited by Timothy Flint. Historical Introduction and Footnotes By Milo Milton Quaife. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. 12mo, red cloth, gilt lettered, bookplate, water spot on front cover, otherwise near fine. ¶ First published in 1831. The Pattie party was the second American group to make the overland trip, Jedediah Smith’s party having been the first in 1826. Cf. Zamorano Eighty 60.


(PATTIE, James O.) - “Benjamin Bilson” THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY, Or the Trials and Toils of Trappers and Traders, during an Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, and California. New York: Wm H. Graham, 1847. 8vo, 100, (4)pp. ¶ Because of heightened interest in California and the Southwest following the war with Mexico, this pirated and slightly abridged reprint of Pattie’s Narrative was published under the pseudonym of Benjamin Bilson. Howes P-123.


(PATTIE, James O.) COBLENTZ, Stanton Arthur. THE SWALLOWING WILDERNESS, The Life of a Frontiersman: James Ohio Pattie. New York: Thomas Yoseleff, 1961. 8vo, 188pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a readable account of Pattie’s life and travels.


PAXTON, June LeMert. DESERT MOODS... Poems and Prose. Yucca Valley: The Author, 1962. 8vo, 109pp, photographic plates, vignettes in the text. Tan cloth with photo onlay. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by the author.


PAXTON, June LeMert. DESERT PEACE and Other Poems. (The Author, 1946). 12mo, 70pp, photographic plates, vignettes in the text. Tan cloth with photo onlay. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author on the endpaper. “Here are verses by the desert poet and philosopher of Yucca Valley. Although not formidable in quality or style, these poems may well be tolerated by the most discriminating reader. They come laden with the clean, fresh air of the desert; and they are certain to arouse no frictional response” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.194).


PAXTON, June LeMert. MY LIFE ON THE MOJAVE. New York: Vantage Press, (1957). 12mo, 168pp, b/w photo-illus. frontispiece and add’l illus. Publ. red cloth, spine lettered in black. ¶ First Edition. Paxton came, in ill health, to Yucca Valley in the mid-1930s and wrote poetry, articles and columns for several peridocials. “The book is... a saga of the author’s long and colorful life in the High Desert country, along the road that leads to Twentynine Palms.... Perhaps no other book more effectually awakens, or stimulates, such an irresistable urge to go out upon the desert - and live there, and thrill to its indescribable beauty, and absorb something of its peace and contentment” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.194).


PEAVLER, H.G. RHYMES OF THE SINGING SAND. 1938.


PEET, Mary Rockwood. SAN PASQUAL A Crack in the Hills. Culver City: The Highland Press, 1949. ¶ First Edition, reprinted in 1973 by the Ballena Press. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.195-96.


PELTZIE, Sarah. SEA [SEE]: the Salton Sea Viewed through a Pinhole. Los Angeles: the Author, 2001. 12mo, 48pp, with 25 b/w pinhole photographs. Wrappers.


PEPPER, Choral. COOKING AND CAMPING ON THE DESERT. Foreword by Erle Stanley Gardner. Driving and Surviving in the Desert by Jack Pepper. San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1966. 8vo, xiv, 82pp, 12pp plates. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Choral Pepper authored Zodiac Parties, an astrological cookbook; with husband Jack Pepper she edited and published Desert Magazine in the ‘sixties. With second husband Brad Williams she wrote The Mysterious West and Lost Legends of the West.


PEPPER, Choral. DESERT LORE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Santee: Sunbelt, (1994).


PEPPER, Choral. GUIDEBOOK TO THE COLORADO DESERT OF CALIFORNIA; Including Palms Springs, Salton Sea, Indio and the Colorado River. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1972


PERKINS, Edna Brush. THE WHITE HEART OF THE MOJAVE. An Adventure with the Outdoors of the Desert. New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). 8vo, 229pp, frontispiece, 7 photographic plates, endpaper map. Original blue cloth with printed paper front cover and spine labels, illustrated dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of an early account of an automobile trip through Death Valley by two women at a time when few would have the courage to undertake such a journey. “..the book commends itself Š first, because it supplies an early account of the desert; second, because what the author has written is well written and bravely conceived. Every collector of desert material should fortify his collection with a copy of the White Heart” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.196-197).


PERKINS, George E. PIONEERS OF THE WESTERN DESERT. Romance and Tragedy Along the Old Spanish or Mormon Trail... Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., 1947.


PETERSON, Charles S., et al. MORMON BATTALION TRAIL GUIDE... (Salt Lake City): Utah State Historical Society, 1972. 4to, (8), 74pp, b/w text maps throughout. Illus. wrappers (lightly creased), spiral bound. ¶ USHS Western Trail Guide Series, Number 1.


PETINAK, Dr Marko. DATES AS FOOD. Los Angeles: the Author, 1941 8vo, 64pp. Green wrappers. ¶ Second edition, revised and enlarged, with chapters on the classification, cultivation, and nutritional value of dates, followed by a number of recipes.


PICKWELL, Gayle. DESERTS. New York: Whittlesey House, (1939). 4to, xiv, 174pp, color photo-illus. frontispiece, 1 map, 62 full-page b/w photo-illus. plates. Publ. brown cloth, lettered with illus. vignette in black. ¶ Notable for the wonderful desert photographs this book went through several printings.


PIERSON, Erma. KERN’S DESERT. Bakersfield: Kern County Historical Society, 1957. 8vo, viii, 68pp, photo-illus. in text. Gold-stamped cloth in dust jacket. ¶ Second edition. Account of an 1879 sheep drive from the Tejon Ranch across Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. Half of ranching baron Edward Beale’s livestock perished along the route. Paher 412.


PIERSON, Erma. THE MOJAVE RIVER AND ITS VALLEY: An Ancient River, and the Story of Its Discovery, Its Paradoxical Nature, Its Service as a Pathway for Migration and the Progress of Its Valley. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1970. 8vo, 229pp, frontis, 17pp of plates from black-and-white photographs, 2 maps (1 folding, 1 double-page). Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. In his foreword, desert bibliographer Edwards writes, “Using the age-old river as her central theme, Mrs. Pierson weaves around it a brilliant tapestry of historical lore. There are chapters relating to the early day visitors, the first ranches and towns, the remote canyons and valleys, the courageous settlers who pioneered this lonely land that sprawls along its ancient river ...The Mojave River and its Valley qualifies as one of this desert’s distinguished books.” Clark & Brunet, Arthur H. Clark, 182.


PINTO, Diana G. IF STONES COULD TALK Upland 2003


POOLE, Charles H. REPORT UPON THE ROUTE FROM SAN DIEGO TO FORT YUMA, via San Diego River, Warner’s Pass, and San Felipe Canon. Washington DC: 1857 ¶ See Pacific Railway Survey vo.. 7.


POPENOE, Paul B. DATE GROWING in the Old World and the New. With a Chapter on the Food Value of the Date by Charles L. Bennett. Altadena, West India Gardens, 1913. 8vo, 316pp, frontispiece & 39 photo. plates. ¶ First Edition. Popenoe recounts his 1911 expedition to Oman in search of the Fardh date which resulted in a year-long civil war when the tribesmen learned their leaders had sold their most precious possession - offshoots of famed date. Another expedition in 1913 with his brother Wilson Popenoe resulted in the shipment of several varieties of the soft date to the Coachella Valley. Interestingly, in 1922 Popenoe commissioned Rudolph Schindler to design the first modernist house in the Coachella Valley (The Popenoe Cabin, stince destroyed), and went on to found the leading marriage counseling service in Los Angeles. Paul’s father, Fred Popenoe, was also a distinguished horticulturist who imported the Fuerte avocado from Mexico which he cultivated in Vista, San Diego County.


POPENOE, Paul B. THE DATE PALM. Edited by Henry Field. Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida: Field Research Projects, 1973. 4to, xii, 247pp, publisher’s printed wrappers, ¶ Posthumous publication of Popenoe’s lost field notes on the date palm.


(Potash). STORY OF THE AMERICAN POTASH & CHEMICAL CORPORATION. 1933. ¶ One of the brochures issued by the chemical plant at Trona on Searles Lake in the Mojave explainging the manufacture of potach with a history of the company. Reissued in 1935, 1937, and forward.


POURADE, Richard. OUR HISTORIC DESERT, the Story of the Anza-Borrego Desert the Largest State Park in the United States of America. Copley Books, 1973. ¶ First Edition (there was also a signed limited edition).


POURADE, Richard F. THE CALL TO CALIFORNIA... Photography by Harry Crosby, Paintings by Lloyd Harting. (San Diego): Union Tribune, (1968). 4to, xiv, 194pp, illus. title, map endpapers, b/w and color photo-illus. throughout (including many full-page plates). Green cloth, vignette in blind, spine lettered in gilt. ¶ First Edition of this illustrated history of “the epic journey of the Portola-Serra expedition in 1769.”


POWELL, Florence (ed.). HERITAGE TALES OF COACHELLA VALLEY. Palm Springs: American Association of University Women, Palms Springs Branch, 1976.


POWELL, H.M.T. THE SANTA FE TRAIL TO CALIFORNIA 1849-1852. The Journal and Drawings of H.M.T. Powell. Edited by Douglas S. Watson. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, Book Club of California, 1931. Folio, (14), 272pp, folding frontis., 17 maps & drawings (many folding), drawn ornaments. Orig. quarter pigskin, very good. ¶ A classic of overland narrative, Powell’s journal covers three years of travel from Greenville IL, to Saint Louis, to San Diego, then up the coast of California to San Jose, and back to Greenville via the Isthmus. Powell’s detailed diary is one of the few gold rush narratives to follow the southern route to the mines. “One of the most beautiful books of our times” (Lawrence Clark Powell, Southwestern Century, 78). 300 copies printed of one of the finest books of the Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Press Bibliography 158. Eberstadt 137:517. Howes P525. Kurutz 515. Mintz 592. Rittenhouse 471.


[POWELL, John Wesley]. EXPLORATION OF THE COLORADO RIVER OF THE WEST and Its Tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the Direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875. Folio, (4), xi, 291 pp. 80 plates (on 72 leaves), and 2 folded maps housed in rear pocket. Original dark brown cloth, rebacked in calf with title stamped in gilt, lower corners bumped, interior crisp and clean. ¶ First Edition of John Wesley Powell’s report on his historic exploration of the Grand Canyon and other canyons of the Colorado, Green and Grand Rivers, with notes on the physical features and zoology of the area. Sabin 64753 (gives pagination as (10), vii-xi, 291, 71 plates, 2 maps). Howes P-528 gives [10, 7-11] 291 pp, 2 maps on 1 sheet, 80 views on 68 sheets.


POWELL, Lawrence Clark. THE RIVER BETWEEN. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1979. ¶ First Edition of a novel set upon the lost meaning of the Colorado River to the native tribes. This was the second novel by the esteemed librarian and bibliographer. “Describes a vast river running between cultures, where the Arizona landscape mirrors the geography of the soul” (Kevin Starr). There was a signed edition limited to 100 copies.


POWERS, Prof. “DEATH VALLEY” LAND OF MYSTERY. Millions in Sight! $$$$$$$$ Suggestions to Prospectors. (Los Angeles/ New York: Efficiency Publishing), January 1919. 12mo, (1), 11pp, 4 monochrome photo-illus, geologic chart. Publ. cream title wrappers, lettered in brown. ¶ Illustrated miscellany including poetry, a description of Death Valley, advice to prospectors, and a summary of United States mining laws. “this item is of no imprtance, insofar as new material on Death Valley is concerned, buts it’s a queer little publication at that. an an early one” (Edwards, Ednuring Desert, p.202).


POWERS, Stephen. TRIBES OF CALIFORNIA. (Dept of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, J.W. Powell, in charge. Contributions to North American Ethnology, Vol. III. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1877. 4to, 635pp, plates, folding map in pocket at end. ¶ First Edition of the most extensive work of its kind issued to that time. This is volume III of “Contributions to North American Ethnology” overseen by J.W. Powell and it stands alone. The folding map shows the distribution of the Indian tribes of California, 1877. Cowan (1914) p.181.


PRATT, Helen. MYSTERY OF GIANT ROCK. ¶ Also note Harlow Jones article on Giant Rock in the May-June 1946 issue of Desert Spotlite.


PRESLEY, Sally. FACTS AND LEGENDS: The Village of Palm Springs. Almost Publishers and Mee, 1993.


PRESS, Margaret L. CHEMEHUEVI, A Grammar and Lexicon. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1980).


PRESTON, E.B. “Salton Lake.” [In:] Eleventh Report of the State Mineralogist (First Biennial), Two Years Ending September 15, 1892; California State Mining Bureau; 1893; pp. 387-393. 1893


PRESTON, Jack and Mrs Edward G. Robinson. THE DESERT BATTALION. Hollywood: Murray & Gee, 1944. 8vo, 98pp, illus. by Disney cartoonists and with wrappers by Milt Gross. ¶ First Edition. Mrs. Edward G. Robinson (Robbie) and her fellow female“Brigadears” recruited young ladies for dances to boost morale of the troops of Patton’s army during World War II. The 600 girls of the Desert Battalion made over 100 weekly trips to remote areas in the desert and entertained a quarter million men. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.203.


PRIESTLEY, J.B. MIDNIGHT ON THE DESERT. A Chapter of Autobiography. New York: Harper 1937. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.204, cared not for the Englishman’s attitude towards the Mojave, but thought the Death Valley reference well-done.


PRIESTLY, J.B. THE DOOMSDAY MEN. London: William Heinemann, 1938. 12mo. Blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine, pictorial end papers with map of Mojave Desert, both ends stamped withdrawn but no other library markings, dedication in ink to verso of title page, light rubbing to edges, corners bumped, light foxing, a very good, tight copy with bright text. ¶ Story of science fiction, mystery and romance set against the backdrop of a mad scientist building a nuclear device in the American Southwest.


PROCTOR, Richard J. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY, SALTON SEA AND VICINITY. Sacramento: Office of State Printing, 1968.


PUMPELLY, Raphael. ACROSS AMERICA AND ASIA. Notes of a Five Years’ Journey around the World and of Residence in Arizona, Japan, and China. New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1870. 8vo, xvi, 454pp, with a frontispiece and 24 plates and illustrations, and four folding maps. Orig. green cloth gilt, a little worn but quite good. ¶ First Edition of this important travel book which includes a short but early account of a crossing of the Colorado Desert, as well as interesting details of life in Arizona. La Farge was one of the first Americans, along with Morse and Fenellosa, to appreciate Japanese prints. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.205. Howes P-650. Weisberg, Japonisme, 38.


PUTNAM, George Palmer. DEATH VALLEY AND ITS COUNTRY. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. 8vo, 231pp. Sienna cloth, white lettered, dust jacket, illus. endpapers. ¶ First Edition. Tales of the pioneers, the prospectors, Indians, and rangers are set alongside detailed descriptions of the Valley’s weather, flora and fauna, sights and sounds and geological past in this history and overview. Putnam lived in the Valley and studied it first hand. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.205.


PUTNAM, George Palmer. HICKORY SHIRT, A Novel of Death Valley 100 Years Ago. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1949. 8vo, 252pp. Red cloth, gilt. tan dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, inscribed in 1950 by the author “with greetings from Death Valley,” of a fictionalized account of the Manly party involving two young men whose hostility for each other is reconciled in the struggle to cross Death Valley in 1850. Baird & Greenwood 2045. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.205: “The Death Valley story moves swiftly and holds interest.”


QUINN, Charles Russell. CHRISTMAS JOURNEY INTO THE DESERT. A Narrative Concerning the Colonists of the Anza Expedition Who Crossed the Deserts of the American Southwest, during the Christmas Season of 1775, in a Journey from the Northern Provinces of Mexico to San Francisco Bay, for the Purpose of Founding a City by that Great Inland Sea... Pen and Ink Sketches by Johannes Laven. (Downey: Elena Quinn), (1960). 8vo, 61pp, 6 full-page plates, text illus, folding map housed in pocket at rear (as issued). Illus. boards, book plate. ¶ “A narrative concerning the colonists of the Anza expedition who crossed the deserts of the American Southwest during the Christmas season of 1775, in a journey from the Northern provinces of Mexico to San Francsco Bay, for the purpose of founding a city by that great Inland Sea.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.206, considered this a favorite. Second edition, first issued in 1959 without the map.


RAMOUNACHOU MOON, Germaine L. BARSTOW DEPOTS AND HARVEY HOUSES. Barstow: Mojave River Valley Museum Association, 2004. 4to, viii, 56pp, misc b&w photo-illus. Photo-illus wrappers. ¶ Revised Second Edition.


RAMSEY, Robert E. THE ROMANCE OF THE DESERT. New York: James F. Newcomb & Co., 1924. 12mo, 36pp, drawings. ¶ Apparently an advertising pamphlet glorifying Borax and Borax Bill, the catch-name for all 20-mule team drivers. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.206-7.


(Rancho Mirage). RANCHO MIRAGE, A Look Back in Time. City of Rancho Mirage (1997). 8vo, wrappers. ¶ Second printing (first was 1993).


RAUP, H.F. SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA: Settlement and Growth of a Pass-Site City. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1940. 8vo, 52pp, 1 folding map, 5 diagrams. Wrappers. ¶ Publications in Geography vol. 8, No. 1, relating in part to the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes. Edwards, enduring desert, p;.207.


REED, Lester. OLD-TIME CATTLEMEN AND OTHER PIONEERS OF THE ANZA-BORREGO AREA. (Palm Desert: Lester Reed, 1963.) 8vo, 147pp, double-page map at end, photo-illus. in text. Pictorial wrappers, spiral bound. ¶ First Edition of a classic of the region. Reed, a descendent of a pioneer family in the Borrego and Hemet region, offers eye-witness accounts of the early days in the Colorado Desert including cattle drives, homesteads, life among the Indians, and interesting geographical information on what is now the Anza-Borrego State Park. A Hemet 1980 second edition adds a preface by Bill Jennings and an index. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.207.


REED, Lester. OLD-TIMERS OF SOUTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA. (Redlands: Lester Reed, 1967.) 8vo, (vi), 294pp, photo-illus. in text. Pictorial wrappers, spiral bound. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.208.


REINHARTZ, Dennis, and Charles C. Colley, eds. THE MAPPING OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1987.


REISNER, Marc & Sarah Bates. OVERTAPPED OASIS: Reform or Revolution for Western Waters. Foreword by Bruce Babbitt. Washington, D.C/ Covelo, California: Island Press, 1990. 8vo, xvi, 200pp, text maps and charts. Illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition of this detailed study, including suggestions for conservation strategies.


REISNER, Mark. CADILLAC DESERT: The American West and Its Disappearing Water. New York: Penguin, 1986.


RENSCH, Hero Eugene & Ethel Grace Rensch. HISTORIC SPOTS IN CALIFORNIA, The Southern Counties. Stanford: Stanford University Press, (1932).


REYNOLDS, Robert E. “A Walk Through Borate: Rediscovering a Borax Mining Town in the Calico Mountains.” [In:] San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, Volume 46 (1), 1999. 4to, 31pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Illus. wrappers. ¶ Reprints photographs from the collections of William H. Smitheram and U.S. Borax Inc.


REYNOLDS, Robert E. (ed.). OFF LIMITS IN THE MOJAVE DESERT. Field Trip Guide Book and Volume for the 1994 Mojave Desert Quaternary Research Center Field Trip to Fort Irwin and Surrounding Areas. Redlands: San Bernardino County Museum Association, 1994. 4to, 100pp, b/w photo-illus. and text diagrams throughout. Illus. wrappers. ¶ Special Publication 94-1 of the San Bernardino County Museum Association contains 12 articles on various aspects of regional geology.


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