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260.CABALLERIA, Father Juan. HISTORY OF SAN BERNARDINO VALLEY,  From the Padres to the Pioneers, 1810-1851... Illustrated by Constance Farris. (San Bernardino: Times Index Press), (1902). Sm. 4to, (9)-130pp, b/w illus. throughout. Charcoal gray wrappers. ¶ First Edition of an illustrated history of San Bernardino Valley with much information on Spanish settlement and local Indians, including the more westerly Cahuilla. Includes a short lexicon of the Gauchama Indian language. Caballeria y Collell was a Santa Barbara priest who also wrote a history of Santa Barbara. Cowan p.91. Howes C-1.

261. (Cacti). JOURNAL OF THE CACTUS AND SUCCULENT SOCIETY. Los Angeles: Cactus & Succelent Society of America, 1929.  ¶ Issued monthy from 1929 to the present.

262. (Cacti). DESERT PLANT LIFE. Pasadena: Desert Magazine Publishing,  1929 - 52. 4to, each issue ca. 24pp, with photo-illus. vignettes throughout.  ¶ A periodical devoted to cactacea and other desert flora. Desert Plant Life ran from 1929 through 1952, vol. 1 through vol. 24, no. 3.

263. CACTUS MOLLY. DESERT NOTES by "Cactus Molly," with Selected Poems by Charles G. Schwitzer.  1966 8vo, unpaginated. Tan wrappers with ocotillo illus. & decorative titling. ¶ Many of these notes were first published in the San Diego Mineral and Gem Society's Bulletin in 1963-65.

264. (Cahuilla - Agua Caliente). THE PALM SPRINGS AGUA CALIENTE INDIANS. City of Palm Springs, 1966. 

265. (Cahuilla - Chief Cabezon). LETTER Transmitting Information as to Whether Instructions have been Sent to the Indian Agent for the Coahuilla Reservation in California to remove Cabazon and to place one Williams as chief of the Tribe, etc. Washington: June 6, 1892. 8vo, 15pp, wrappers. ¶ Senate Document, 52d Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 108. Indian Agent Rust, of the Tule and Mission Agency, suggests that Chief Cabezon and medicine man Will Pablo are disruptive and should be emprisoned.

266. (Cahuilla - Chief Cabezon). CLELAND, Robert Glass. PATHFINDERS. Los Angeles: Powell, 1929.  ¶ On pp.388-90 is found the Narrative of Benjamin D. Wilson, an Anglo-American who married into a Mexican family. In 1845 Wilson led a posse through the San Gorgonio Pass in search of two Indians from the San Gabriel Mission who had stolen livestock and headed into the desert. He later wrote than when he reached the head of the pass: "We were met by the chief of Cahuillas, whose name was Cabezon (Big Head), with about twenty of his picked followers, to remonstrate against our going upon a cmpaign against his people, for he had ever been good and friendly to the whites." Wilson, however, placed Cabezon under arrest but the Chief reached an agreement in which his brother and 12 men were to search for the thieves; the next night the severed heads of the two rustlers were handed over to Wilson.

267. (Cahuilla Indians). PANIKTUM HEMKI: A Study of Cahuilla Cultural Resources in Andreas and Murray Canyons. Cultural Systems Research, Inc. with contributions by Applied  Conservation Technology, Inc  Prepared for the Andreas Cove Country Club, 1983. 

268. (Cahuilla Indians - H.S. Burton). REPORT, June 15, 1856, on a Visit to Chief Juan Antonio and His Sub-Captains at San Timoteo. 34th Congress, 3rd Session, House Executive Document 76, Serial  No. 906, p.126.  (1856).  ¶ In 1856 Army Captain H.S. Burton held a council with the leaders of the Cahuillas and Luisenos to discuss, among other things, the activities of the Mormons. Cabezon did not attend the meeting but later showed up for the fiesta. Burton records the rift between Cabezon and Juan Antonio: "A few days after this meeting, Cabezon was present at a feast given by Juan Antonio, and conducted himself in so insolent a manner, that Juan Antonio deprived him of his office. I am told that Cabezon's personal influence among his peope is very great and this disgrace from his office will not diminish it."

269. (Cahuilla Indians - John Griffith Ames). REPORT OF SPECIAL AGENT JOHN G. AMES in Regard to the Condition of the Mission Indians of California. With Recommendations. Papers Accompanying the Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.  1873.  ¶ In 1873 the govenrment sent Ames to report on the Mission Indians and to make recommendations concerning their future. A meeting between Ames and Cabezon, who was then 90 years old, took place in the San Gorgonio Pass. The Report, together with the efforts of Cabezon and other captains, resulted in the establishment of several Cahuilla reservations in the following years. In 1876 President Grant issued the order which established the Cabezon Reservation, among others (Executive Order of May 15, 1876, reprinted in Indian Affairs: Law and Treaties, vol. I, p.821.).

270. (Cahuilla Indians - Treaty of Temecula - Oliver Wozencraft). TREATY MADE AND CONCLUDED AT THE VILLAGE OF TEMECULA, State of California, January 5, 1852 Between the United States Agent O.M. Wozencraft and the Chiefs, Captains, and head Men of the San Louis Rey, Kah-We-As, and the Co-Com-Cah-Ras Tribes of Indians. [In:] Documents Relating to the Negotiation of Unratified Treaties  with the Various Bands of the Mission Indians of California. U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1852.  ¶ In the Temecula Treaty the Cahuilla, Luiseno and Serranos agreed to give up their claim to ancestral lands in exchange for a large reservation which would remain theirs forever. Twenty-eight members from the three tribes signed the treaty. It is uncertain if Cabezon attented the treaty, but a member of the Cahuilla did sign. However, the treaty was not ratified by the U.S. government and the Indians did not receive the large reservation.

271. (Cahuilla Indians - Treaty of Temecula). Parker, Horace (ed.). THE HISTORIC VALLEY OF TEMECULA: The Treaty of Temecula.  Balboa Island: Paisano Press, 1967. 8vo, 26pp, illus.  ¶ Background on the unratified treaty involving the Cahuillas, Luisenos, and whites in Southern California.

272. (Cahuilla legend). HENDROY TURNING INTO A BEAR. Desert Cahuilla Folklore. Cahuilla Translation by Alec R. Dominguez, As Told to Sylvia Burton-Coates. Illustrated by James Montenegro (Black Mountain). (Cathedral City: Sylvia Burton-Coates, n.d., ca. 1996). 8vo, (2), 21, (4)pp. Spiral bound in wrappers.

273. CAIN, Ella. THE STORY OF BODIE. San Francisco: Fearon, 1956. 8vo, 196pp, 71 plates.  ¶ Issued in both cloth and wrappers. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.38.

274. CAIN, Ella M. Cody. THE STORY OF EARLY MONO COUNTY. Its Settlers, Gold Rushes, Indians, Ghost Towns. San Francisco: Fearon, 1961. 8vo, 196pp, 71 plates.  ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.38: "...early Mono County's number one book."

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

276. CALDWELL, George W. LEGENDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Illustrated by Jane Jefferson Flippin. San Francisco: Phillips & Van Orden Co.,  1919. Sm. 8vo, 101pp with 3 line drawings. Paper boards with robed Indian in color, black lettering. ¶ Stories and poems founded on legends of the Soboba Indians of Southern California. Includes  "Arrowhead Hot Springs;" "The Blue Lizard" about the lizard found only in the San Jacinto Mountains at high elevations; "The Lights of Elsinore" about the will-of-the-wisps at the lower end of the Lake; and "The Rumbling of Tauquitz," an Indian explanation for mysterious noises. The author (1887-1946), practiced medicine in New York (where he developed the eponymous Caldwell-Luc operation), taught at Stanford, and in 1926 moved to Los Angeles where he exhibited his paintings. He was a member of the California Art Club. His Ghost Stories of the California Missions and Rhymes of the Gypsy Trail (Hollywood, 1939) was illustrated by George F. Mason.

277. (Calico). CALICO GHOST TOWN. Southern California's Greatest Silver Camp. Knott's Berry Farm, (1959). 8vo, 56pp, b/w photos throughout. Color wrappers. ¶ Walter Knott's uncle John C. King, sheriff of San Bernardino County, grubstaked two prospectors who discovered the richest of all Calico deposits and named it "The Silver King Mine" in his honor. As a youth Walter Knott worked at the mine.

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

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

280. California State Office Bureau of Land Management. CALIFORNIA DESERT, A Critical Environmental Challenge. Department of the Interior, 1970. 

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

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

283. CALZIA, James P. (ed.). FIFTY YEARS OF DEATH VALLEY RESEARCH. Elzevier Science & Technology, 2006. 354pp.  ¶ A special issue of Earth-Science Reviews, commemorating the 50 years of cooperative research of Dr Lauren A. Wright and Bennie W. Troxel, experts on the geology of Death Valley. The volume covers a variety of subjects including stratigraphy, structure, regional tectonics, quaternary geology, and mineral resources.

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

285. CAMP, Charles L. DESERT RATS.  Berkeley: Bancroft Library, Univ. of California Berkeley, 1966. 8vo, (6), 55pp, frontis. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. The term "Desert Rat" here refers to burro prospectors. The author writes "The title was a proud one and not lightly bestowed. Genuine burro prospectors were self-sufficient, self-reliant men; uninhibited lovers of independence and solitude." Paher 257.

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

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

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

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

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

291. CAMPBELL, Elizabeth W. Crozer, et al. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PLEISTOCENE LAKE MOHAVE.A Symposium by Elizabeth W. Crozer Campbell, William H. Campbell, Ernst Antevs, Charles Avery Amsden, Joseph A. Barbieri, and Francis D. Bode. Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1937, reprinted  1963. 8vo, 117pp, photo illus. throughout, fold-out panorama view at the front. Wrappers.  ¶ Southwest Museum Papers No. 11, being the third contribution from the Twenty-Nine Palms Laboratory (formerly known as the Desert Branch) of the Southwest Museum. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.40: "One of the pioneer treatises on the region..."

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

293. CAPURRO, Giovani E. THE DEATH VALLEY KIDS. Lincoln, Nebraska: Writers Showcase Press, 2002. 

294. CARLSON, Helen S. NEVADA PLACE NAMES, A Geographical Dictionary. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1974. 8vo, xiv, 282pp. Green cloth, orange dust jacket.

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

296. CARR, William H. DESERT PARADE. A Guide to Southwestern Desert Plants and Wildlife. Photographs by Marvin H. Frost. New York: Viking, 1947. 8vo, 96pp, 74 photos. Cloth, endpaper maps, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. "No lover of the desert should be without it" (Edwards, Desert Treasure, p.18). Carr was curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York from 1926 to 1944.

297. CARSON, Kit. KIT CARSON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1935. 12mo, frontis. Red cloth, gilt lettered. ¶ "The basic account of Carson's career is his autobiography... and the best published version is the edition by Milo Quaife" (LeRoy Hafen, The Old Spanish Trail). Includes accounts of Carson's adventures with Fremont, Brewerton, Ewing Young, and with Kearney at the Battle of San Pasqual. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.42.

298. CARTER, Charles Franklin. SOME BY-WAYS OF CALIFORNIA. San Francisco: Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin, 1911. 12mo, 189pp.

299. (Cartography - California) SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S GOLDEN COAST and Sunshine Empire. (Map title: Ride the Roads to Romance along the Golden Coast and thru the Sunshine Empire of Southern California.)  San Bernardino: Southern California Tourist Ass'n, 1963. Color pictorial / pictographic map, multiple folds as issued, 21-1/4 x 33-3/4 inches folding to 8-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches.  ¶ A popular "cartograph" offering a bird's eye view of Southern California looking north from the Mexican border.

300. CARTTER, George R. TWILIGHT OF THE JACKASS PROSPECTOR. Death Valley Area Portraits of the 1930's. Featuring Photography by Robert Ansel Cartter. Introduction & Text by George R. Cartter. Morongo Valley: Sagebrush Press, 1982. 8vo, 61pp, photo plates. Glossy pictorial wrappers.  ¶ First Edition, 2000 copies printed. A remarkable collection of images from the 1930s in and around Death Valley.

301. CARUTHERS, William. LOAFING ALONG DEATH VALLEY TRAILS. A Personal Narrative of People and Places. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, 1951. 8vo, 191pp, inserted b/w photo section. Red cloth, orange dust jacket with line drawing of a burro prospector by Norton Allen. ¶ First Edition, inscribed: "Autographed by the author with best wishes for Mr. Bertram Smith - a big name in books. Aug. 1951 - William Caruthers." "One of the top level items on Death Valley... Caruthers ushers in a resurgence of glamour as he reactivates for his readers the romantic old ghost towns of this desert's fabulous mining era" (Edwards, Enduring Desert p. 42-43). Adams, Six-Guns, 387, noting the chapter "Genial Crooks," on Joaquin Murietta, Tiburcio Vasquez, Three Fingered Jack Garcia and Tilley Younger. Paher 291

302. CARUTHERS, William. LOAFING ALONG DEATH VALLEY TRAILS. A Personal Narrative of People and Places. Ontario, CA: Death Valley Publishing Co., 1951. 8vo, 191pp, 24 b/w photo. plates.  Tan cloth, lettered & illustrated in dark brown, tan dust jacket repeating design on cloth. ¶ Second and slightly revised edition. Features a parade of interesting and colorful characters the author met during his twenty-five years living in "the Big Sink at the bottom of America."

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

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

305. CASEBIER, Dennis. THE BATTLE AT CAMP CADY Norco: the Author, September, 1972. 8vo, (6), 33pp, frontis., b/w photo- & text illus. Illus. wrappers, lettered in black.  ¶ First Edition. Tales of the Mojave Road, Number Two, describes the battle between the Garrison at Camp Cady in the Mojave and the Pah-Utes in 1866. The Pah-Utes are today known as the Southern Paiutes.

306. CASEBIER, Dennis. THE MOJAVE ROAD. Tales of Mojave Road Number 5. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1975. 8vo, 92pp, folding map in pocket inside rear cover. Cloth.  ¶ First Edition. The Mojave Road treats the history of the old Mojave Road from the earliest times up to 1883 when the rail road was built along the 35th parallel, leaving the old road virtually lost in the deserts. Paher 298: "Casebier's best book."

307. CASEBIER, Dennis. CAMP EL DORADO, Arizona Territory. Soldiers, Steamboats, and Miners on the Upper Colorado River. Tempe: Arizona Historical Foundation, 1970. 8vo, 103pp, illus. Wrappers. ¶ "The author provides the first documentation of military activities there and at Callville and Las Vegas Ranch, both of which quartered detachments from Camp El Dorado. Maps and rare photographs are integrated into a well-researched text of this little known activity" (Paher 296).

308. CASEBIER, Dennis. TALES OF THE MOJAVE ROAD: The Military. Goffs: Tales of the Mojave Road.

309. CASEBIER, Dennis G.  CARLETON'S PAH-UTE CAMPAIGN. Tales of the Mojave Road No. 1. Norco: Dennis G. Casebier, 1972. 8vo, 58pp, misc. b/w photo-illus., map in rear pocket. Illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition of the first volume in Casebier's series on the Mojave. An account of Major James Henry Carleton's campaign against the Pah-Utes in the Mojave in 1860 in retaliation for the murder of three white men. His dragoons made forays into Death Valley and Las Vegas Valley. Paher 297: "A scholarly study."

310. CASEBIER, Dennis G.  FORT PAH-UTE CALIFORNIA. Tales of the Mojave Road No. 4. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1974. 8vo, 160pp, b/w photo-illus. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author.

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

312. CASEBIER, Dennis G.  THE MOJAVE ROAD IN NEWSPAPERS. Compiled by... Tales of the Mojave Road No. 6. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road, 1976. 8vo, 97pp, misc b/w photo-illus. Fabricoid. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author on the title. This collection supplements Casebier's Mojave Road, 1985, and reveals the vast research he conducted in establishing the course of the road.

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

314. CASEBIER, Dennis, & the Friends of the Mojave Road. MOJAVE ROAD GUIDE. Norco: Tales of Mojave Road, 1986. 8vo, 232pp, illus. & maps. Green marbled fabricoid, gilt stamped spine title & gilt stamped title & figure on front. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author. Tales of Mojave Road Number 11.

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

316. CASTLEBERRY, May (ed.). PERPETUAL MIRAGE: Photographic Narrative of the Desert West. New York: Abrams for the Whitney Museum of Art, 1996. 4to, 240pp, with 157 illus, incl. 14 color plates.  ¶ With a chapter on the work of Smeaton Chase by Patricia Limerick and Sharyn Wiley Yeoman, but unfortunately nothing on Stephen Willard. Contributors include Evan S. Connell, William Goetzmann, Kevin Starr, Terry Tempest Williams, et al. Issued in both cloth and wrappers.

317. CASTRO, Jay & Jan. PALM SPRINGS TO INDIO, 51 Cool Little Hot Spots. Palm Desert: HeartStone, (2001). 8vo, 136pp, illus. throughout. White wrappers.

318. CATES, Robert. JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL MONUMENT. A Visitor's Guide. (Chatsworth): Live Oak Press, 1984. 8vo, 100pp, frontis., b/w photo- & text illus., throughout, 6 maps. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition. A second revised edition was issued in 1995.

319. CAUGHEY, John Walton. SOUTHWEST FROM SALT LAKE IN 1849 and the Jacob Y. Stover Narrative. Reprinted from the Pacific Historical Review, June, 1937. 8vo, 17pp. White wrappers. ¶ "Of paramount Death Valley interest. The inclusion of the Stover narrative probably marks its first published appearance from the original manuscript (Edwards, Desert Treasure, p.13). "Caughey deals with several parties, or groups, that broke away from the original Sand Walking Company; and draws copiously upon all the well-known source authorities - Manly, Stephens, Brier, Colton, Stover and others" (Edwards, Valley, p.74).

320. CEPEK, Dick & Walt Wheelock. ROUGH RIDING. Glendale: La Siesta Press, (1968). 8vo, 36pp, illus. Yellow wrappers. ¶ Tips for offroading adventures.

321. CHACE, Paul G. AN ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LUISENO INDIANS. San Bernardino County Museum Association (1964).  ¶ Vol. XII, No. 2 of the San Bernardino County Museum Association papers.

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

323. CHALFANT, W.A. DEATH VALLEY, THE FACTS. Palo Alto: Stanford, 1930. 8vo, ix, 155pp, 30 plates, endpaper maps. Cloth. ¶ The standard Death Valley handbook. In Desert Harvest Edwards wrote that of the enduring books on the desert the Chalfant and Manly "stand alone, distinctive and invulnerable." Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.44-45. Paher, Nevada 306. A second edition appeared in 1933, and the third of 1936 went through several printings.

324. CHALFANT, W.A. GOLD, GUNS, AND GHOST TOWNS. Stanford University Press, 1947.  ¶ First Edition of tales of the mines and miners of the ghost towns of eastern California and Nevada. Most of the selections first appeared in the author's Outpost of Civilization and Tales of the Pioneers. Adams, Six Guns, 404: "... much on lawlessness of the early mining camps." Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.45. Paher 307.

325. CHALFANT, W.A. OUTPOSTS OF CIVILIZATION. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1928. 8vo, 193pp. Purple cloth titled in gilt, yellow dust jacket printed in red & black. ¶ First Edition, scarce, particularly in dust jacket. Chalfant, an Inyo county newspaperman, here collects some 250 of his articles on mines, mining camps, bandits, speculators, etc. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.45: "The item is scarce, important, and a worthy addition to any desert collection." Paher 308.

326. CHALFANT, W.A. TALES OF THE PIONEERS. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1942. 8vo, 129pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. Chalfant chronicles 18 stories of prospectors and law men in Nevada and eastern California. The chapter "Mile High Mono Lake" is about Mark Twain. Part of these captivating tales were reprinted in the author's Gold, Guns, and Ghost Towns. Scarce in the dust jacket. Paher 310.

327. CHALFANT, W.A. THE STORY OF INYO. Revised Edition. [N.p.: Published by the Author], 1933. 8vo, xviii, 430, vii-ads, frontis. map. Red cloth, gilt. Plain dust jacket. ¶ Second and revised edition, scarcer than the first, of the definitive history of the Owens Valley, with sections on the Sierras and Death Valley. Chalfant based much of his history of the pre-1870 period on the private library of Henry Hanks who had been an assayer in Inyo County and went on to become State Mineralogist (the Hanks library was lost in the San Francisco fire of 1906). The first edition had only one chapter on the Los Angeles Aqueduct, and this edition devotes seven chapters to "The Betrayal of Owens Valley," plus new material on Indian life, customs, and legends. Cowan p.112. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.45.-6. Howes C-261: "Best history of the California region east of the Sierras, the Owens Valley and Death Valley." Paher 309.

328. CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel E. MY CONFESSION. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. 8vo, 302pp, author's illus. incl. 16pp in color. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ One of 500 copies printed of the adventures of Samuel Chamberlain in the Southwest. An important account of an 1850 crossing of the Colorado Desert appears on pp.291-97, with mention of Cooks Wells, Vallecita, and San Phillippe. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.46. The Texas State Historical Assoc. issued an unexpurgated and annotated edition, replete with duels, wild chases, drinking and carousing, racism, murder, and Chamberlain's seductions of school girls and matrons alike.

329. CHAMBERS, Wes. THE VAN DYKE PAPERS: Historic Routes in the Mojave Desert... [In:]  San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 1, Spring, 1991. 4to, 45pp, b/w photo- & text illus. throughout. Wrappers. ¶ Included in this issue is an additional article: "The Halloran Spring Petroglyphs," by Wilson G. Turner.

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

331. CHAPIN,  Edward L. A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MAPS. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1953. 4to, x, 124pp. Wrappers. ¶ A carto-bibliography of 624 maps of the ten southernmost California counties. The maps selected are all dated after 1900, with most in the 1930s and 1940s.

332. CHAPMAN, Robert H. THE DESERTS OF NEVADA AND THE DEATH VALLEY... Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, 1906. Sm. 4to, (483)-497pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Salmon wrappers. ¶ Reprinted from National Geographic Magazine, September, 1906. Edwards, Desert Voices, p.34: "Of no particular value...aside from the fact that it is one of the early printed descriptions of the desert." Paher 314.

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

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

335. CHASE, J. Smeaton. OUR ARABY, Palm Springs and the Garden of the Sun. Illustrated from Photographs by the Author: With a Descriptive List of Desert Plants, etc. and Hints to Desert Motorists: also a New Map of the Region by the U.S. Geological Survey. Palm Springs: Printed for J. Smeaton Chase, 1920. 12mo, 83pp, frontis. photo of Mt San Jacinto, folding map in pocket at back. Tan linen-weave cloth with desert scene in black & white.  ¶ First Edition of Chase's charming ode to Palm Springs and environs. "In Our Araby Chase has fashioned a delicately beautiful classic of Palm Springs..." (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.48). Includes Chase's photograph "At Two Bunch Palms: Mt San Gorgonio in the Distance" (deleted in the second edition). Printed by Star-News Publishing Company, Pasadena.

336. CHASE, J. Smeaton. OUR ARABY, Palm Springs and the Garden of the Sun. New Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Illustrated from Photographs by the Author: With a Descriptive List of Desert Plants, etc. and Hints to Desert Motorists: also a New Map of the Region by the U.S. Geological Survey. Palm Springs: Printed for J. Smeaton Chase, 1923. 12mo, 112pp, frontis. & 8 photo plates inserted, folding map in pocket at back. Light tan cloth, dust jacket.  ¶ Second edition, adding three chapters (Around the Year; Some Bits of History; & Palm Canon National Monument); and adds the photo plate "Off for the Canon" (replacing "Two Bunch Palms"). Printed by J.J. Little & Ives, New York, the copyright reads 1920 & 1924!

337. CHASE, J. Smeaton. OUR ARABY, Palm Springs and the Garden of the Sun. Illustrated from Photographs by the Author: With a Descriptive List of Desert Plants, etc. and Hints to Desert Motorists: also a New Map of the Region by the U.S. Geological Survey. Palm Springs: (City of Palm Springs, 1987). 12mo, 83pp, frontis. photo. of Mt San Jacinto, folding map in pocket at back. Tan linen-weave cloth with desert scene in brown & white, reproduced on the dust jacket. ¶ A faithful facsimile, with a new Foreword by the City Librarian, and the original Foreword reset to save a page. One wonders why they chose to reprint the first, rather than the expanded second edition.

338. (Chase, J. Smeaton). WILD, Peter. J. SMEATON CHASE. Johannesburg: Shady Myrick Research Project, 2005. 8vo, 211pp, illus. Cloth.  ¶ Includes a bibliography of writings by and about Chase.

339. CHASE, Stephanie. OUT OF SILENCE, From the Heart of the San Jacinto Mountains. Stonehill Press, (1996). 

340. CHEESMAN, David W. BY OX TEAM FROM SALT LAKE TO LOS ANGELES, 1850: A Memoir by David W. Cheesman. Edited by Mary E. Goy. [In:] Annual Publication, Historical Society of Southern California, XIV. Los Angeles: 1930. 8vo, pp. 271-337.  ¶ Cheesman's party followed the Mormon Trail in the summer of 1850. This account later appeared in the Pacific Historical Review 11, 2, 1937. Paher 317.

341. CHIARO, Preston & Bobby Tanner. RESURRECTING A LEGEND: The Return of the Borax Twenty Mule Team. [Death Valley:] Death Valley 49ers, November,  2001. 8vo, 28pp, color & b/w photo-illus. throughout. Wrappers. ¶ Keepsake no. 41.

342. CHIDESTER, Ann. MOON GAP. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. 8vo, 254pp. Cloth. ¶ Story of a family living in a Mojave Desert ghost town and the effects of isolation and loneliness on each. Baird & Greenwood p.469.

343. CHILD, Nellise. MURDER COMES HOME. New York: Knopf,  1933. 8vo, (9), 330, (2)pp, incl. map on p.[2]. Brown cloth with title & design in blue & green, illustrated dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a detective novel set at a millionaire's estate between Palm Springs and the San Bernardino Mountains. Baird & Greenwood 472 (mistakenly setting it in the Mojave desert).

344. CHILDS, Craig. THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF WATER: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert. Sasquatch Books, 2000. 8vo, 304pp, line drawings throughout. Wrappers.

345. CHRISTIAN, Peggy. HISTORIC SAN TIMOTEO CANYON, a Pictorial Tour, Myths and Legends. Morongo Valley: Sagebrush Press, 2002. 

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

347. CLARK, Frederick Thickstun. IN THE VALLEY OF HAVILAH. New York: Frank F. Lovell, (1890). 8vo, (2), 282pp. Green cloth, covers titled in black, spine in gilt, floral endpapers.  ¶ First Edition of a rare novel set in the California deserts. Havilah, a biblical land, translates as "Stretch of Sand." Baird & Greenwood 481.

348. CLARK, Howard D. LOST MINES OF THE OLD WEST. Authentic Story of the "Pegleg" and 21 other Stories of Fabulous Los Mines. (Los Angeles): Ghost Town Press, 1946. 8vo, 64pp, with a few photo. illus. & lines drawings & cover illustrated in pen & ink by Windas. Illustrated wrappers.  ¶ Clark claims this is "the authentic story of the Peg-leg and 21 other fabulous lost mines." Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.49.

349. CLARK, May Lillian & Twila G. Couzens. YUCCA VALLEY and its History.  [Yucca Valley:] The Authors,  1966. 4to, (2), 21, (1) leaves, mimeo on rectos. Hand-lettered wrappers illustrated with drawing of Yucca trees & a roadrunner. Stapled.  ¶ First Edition. A succinct history of Yucca Valley and environs from the 19th- through the mid-20th century, with interesting notes on Warren's Well, early ranchers, travelers, and miners in the vicinity. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.49.

350. CLARK, Robert A. & Patrick J. Brunet. ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY: A Bibliography and History 1902-1992. Spokane: Arthur H. Clark, 1993.  ¶ A bibliography of the publications and a history of the eminent house, with over 280 annotated collations, limitation of each title, a section on the various publications in series, etc. A corrected and expanded edition was issued in 2002.

351. CLARK, William D. & David Muench (photographs). DEATH VALLEY: The Story Behind the Scenery. Las Vegas: KC Publications, (1972). 4to, 32pp, color illus. throughout. Color wrappers.  ¶ First Edition. "The author furnishes an overall view of Death Valley, then focuses on the geology and man's intrusion into Death Valley. Excellent illustrations and thoughtful book design capture the essence of the desert-of-deserts" (Paher 2513 noting a 1980 revised edition).

352. CLARKE, Asa B. TRAVELS IN MEXICO AND CALIFORNIA... Comprising a Journal of a Tour from Brazos Santiago, through Central Mexico, by Way of Monterey, Chihuahua, the Country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California. Boston: Wright & Hasty's Steam Press, 1852. Sm. 8vo, 138 pp. Printed wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Clarke, a member of the Hampden Mining Company, sailed from New York on January 29, 1849, and arrived in the pueblo of Los Angeles on July 9th. Most of the narrative is devoted to his arduous journey; his mining career was very brief. On route, Clarke met Dr Field, who had been with Fannin's party in Texas and had written Three Years in Texas. Cowan (I), p.48; (II), p.128. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.9. Howes C-451. Wagner-Camp 210.

353. CLAYTON, Jan. ONCE MORE WITH FEELING. Palm Springs Playhouse, 1960.  ¶ Clayton's play opened the season on Jan. 9 on the Polo Grounds

354. CLELAND, Robert Glass. THE CATTLE ON A THOUSAND HILLS, Southern California 1850-1870. San Marino: [Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press for] Huntington Library, 1941. 8vo, 327pp, text illus. Green cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of the best scholarly account of the California ranchos. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.50: "Reference is made to bordering desert areas and peoples - Warner's Ranch, Agua Caliente Ranch, San Gorgonio Ranch, the Cajon Pass, the Cahuilla Indians." Includes material on Murieta and Vasquez." Howes C-477.

355. CLEMENTS, Lydia. THE INDIANS OF DEATH VALLEY. Hollywood: Hollycrafters, (1962). 8vo, 23pp. Printed wrappers.  ¶ Revised edition, first published in 1953. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.51: "... essential Death Valley material." Paher 354.

356. CLEMENTS, Thomas. GEOLOGICAL STORY OF DEATH VALLEY... Illustrated. [N.p.]: Death Valley 49ers, (1966). 8vo, 62pp. Wrappers. ¶ Fourth edition, first issued in 1954 and revised in 1958 and 1962. This was the first publication of the Death Valley '49ers and was originally printed by the Desert Magazine Press. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.51.

357. CLEMENTS, Thomas & Lydia. EVIDENCE OF PLEISTOCENE MAN IN DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. [In:] Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Vol. 64, 1963. 8vo, pp.1189-1204, illus. Tan wrappers. ¶ Inscribed: "To Phil Townsend Hanna, with the compliments of the authors."

358. (Climbing).  - WILTS, Chuck. A CLIMBER'S GUIDE TO TAHQUITZ ROCK. Glendale: La Siesta Press, 1962.

- WILTS, Chuck. TAHQUITZ AND SUICIDE ROCK. New York: The Club, 1979. 

359. CLINE, Lora L. JUST BEFORE SUNSET. Tombstone: LC Enterprises, 1984. 146pp, illus., maps. Wrappers. ¶ Second edition of an account of the Kwaaymii people, based largely on the recollections of Tom Lucas. Born in 1903, Lucas was the last full-blooded Kwaaymii, members of the Kumeyaay tribes.

360. CLYDE, Norman. HIGH-LOW. [In:] Touring Topics, November, 1930.  ¶ Clyde describes his descent from Mt Whitney's 14,500 peak to the lowest spot in America, 280 feet below sea level on the floor of Death Valley. The entire adventure was accomplished in only seven hours.

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

362. (Coachella Valley). COACHELLA VALLEY INVESTIGATION. Bulletin No. 108.  Sacramento: California Department of Water Resources, 1964. 4to, xv, 145pp.

363. (Coachella Valley). Desert Magazine - Special Issue. "What to See and Do in California's Coachella Valley." Palm Desert: Cactus Paperworks, 1981. 

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

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

366. (Coachella Valley Map). PALM SPRINGS & VICINITY. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Drug Co., [n.d., ca. 1940]. Obl. 8vo folding pamphlet with 2 maps. ¶ The detailed large map measuring 9 by 22 inches, stretches from Banning and Hemet on the West to Blythe and the Colorado River on the East. A smaller map occupying a single panel depicts Southern California and lists driving distances from Palm Springs.

367. (Coachella Valley Water District). COACHELLA VALLEY WATER DISTRICT. Review 1991-93. Special 75th Anniversary Two-Year Edition. Indio: Coachella Valley County Water District, 1993. 4to, 32pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Photo-illus. wrappers.  ¶ First edition of this miscellany with a historical time-line from 1914 to 1992.

368. COFFEE, L.W. DESERT HOT SPRINGS WHY? Los Angeles: L.W. Coffee, [n.d., ca. 1948]. 8vo, 22pp. Yellow wrappers, lettered & bordered in black. ¶ Scarce pamphlet by the founder and developer of Desert Hot Springs. A "Special Commemorative Edition for the Grand Opening of the L.W. Coffee Gallery, Cabot's Pueblo Museum" was issued in October, 2008.

369. COHEN, Octavius Roy. A BULLET FOR MY LOVE... New York: Macmillan, 1950. 8vo, (6), 218pp. Red cloth, blue pictorial dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a mystery set in Las Vegas casinos, Hollywood, and the Mojave Desert. This copy is inscribed "To my Friend Marion Hicks" on a card printed "With the Compliments of the Author." Marion Hicks was a major casino operator in Las Vegas who built the original Algiers and Thunderbird hotel-casinos. Baird & Greenwood 504. A paperback appeared in 1952.

370. COIT, John Eliot. IMPERIAL VALLEY SETTLERS' CROP MANUAL. Berkeley: University Press, 1911. Pp.[139]-253, illustrated. ¶ Coit (1880-1976) was Professor of Citriculture at U.C. Berkeley in the 'teens, and later farm Advisor to Los Angeles County. He was a founder and three-time president of the California Avocado Association (the name changed to the California Avocado Society in 1941). In 1924 he helped organize the California Avocado Growers Association (now Calavo) and served as director until 1944. Although not a prolific writer, Coit's works, particularly Citrus Fruits: An Account of the Citrus Fruit Industry (1915) have been valuable contributions.

371. COIT, John Eliot. DATE CULTURE. Berkeley: University of California Division of Agricultural Education, n.d.  ¶ J. Eliot Coit (1880-1976) was the father of the California avocado industry.

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

373. COLLEY, Charles C. FIRST COMMERCIAL DATE PALM EXPERIMENTATION IN CALIFORNIA, 1882-1900. [In:] Southern California Quarterly, Vol. LV, No. 3, Fall, 1973. Historical Society of Southern California, 1973. 

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

375. COLLIER, Anne E. GOOD WATER AND GOOD ROADS: The Story of the Desert Signpost Campaign. Los Angeles Westerners Corral, Fall, 2008 8vo, self wrappers. ¶ Branding Iron No. 252.

376. COLLINS, Barbara. KEY TO WILDFLOWERS OF THE DESERTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Thousand Oaks: California Lutheran College, 1979. 8vo, x, 143pp, line drawings in the text. Wrappers, plastic binder.

377. (Colorado River). CONTROLLING THE COLORADO RIVER AND THE SALTON SEA. [In:] Scientific American, Dec. 22, 1906. 

378. (Colorado River). THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER LAND USE PLAN, a Report of the Lower Colorado River Land Use Advisory Committee. Washington: Department of the Interior, January, 1964. Sm. 4to, 187pp, photos & fold-out plates. Wrappers.

379. (Colorado River Aqueduct). COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT RECORDING PROJECT: Historic American Engineering Record.  Washington, D. C.: National Park Service, 1998. Obl. 8vo, (62)pp, illus. Spiral bound. ¶ Reports, plans and photographs compiled by the Historic American Engineering Record team from the National Park Service for the Library of Congress.

380. (Colorado River Aqueduct). THE GREAT AQUEDUCT, The Story of the Planning and Building of the Colorado River Aqueduct. Los Angeles: The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1941. 4to, 69, (1)pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Brown cloth, gilt. ¶ First Edition of a history of the planning and construction of the 242 mile aqueduct by the Metropolitan Water District, compiled by articles which appeared in the Colorado River Aqueduct News written by members of the District's staff. At the time the largest water supply line in the U.S, construction was begun in December, 1932 and completed in 1941. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River at Parker Dam west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the east side of the Santa Ana Mountains. Originally conceived by William Mulholland and designed by Chief Engineer Frank Weymouth of the MWD, it was the largest public works project in southern California during the Depression, employing some 30,000 people over an eight-year period and as many as 10,000 at one time.

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

382. (Colorado River Aqueduct). WEYMOUTH, F.E. COLORADO RIVER AQUEDUCT. Los Angeles: The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 1935-39. ¶ In the early 1920's Los Angeles began investigating the Colorado River as a possible source for water as drought and expanding population had placed a strain on existing supplies. In 1928, Los Angeles joined with several other communities also seeking more water to form the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Over the next decade the District obtained voter approval to fund the project, and constructed in 1933-41 a network of pumping plants, reservoirs, and canals to bring water from Lake Havasu, behind the Bureau of Reclamation's Parker Dam, to the coastal plain. Deliveries from the Colorado River began in June, 1941. San Diego completed its connection in 1947, with water arriving in the Coachella Valley two years later. Published as a public service by the fledgling Metropolitan Water District the reports include chapters on route selection, design, specifications, financing, rights of way, construction, distribution facilities, the workers, administration, etc. Profusely illustrated with photos, charts, tables, and a route map.

383. COLTON, G[eorge Woolworth] &  C[harles] B. COLTON'S NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA. New York: G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co., 1877. Lithograph map, original color, borders outlined in vivid rose, with arabesque border.  ¶ Pocket version of Colton's map of Arizona and New Mexico, with parts of Nevada, California, the Mexican border, Kansas, Colorado, and Texas (western Panhandle and "Camp Stockton" and China Ponds to El Paso). The map marks railroads (existing and proposed, including the Southern Pacific route), mining districts, forts, geological features, many towns and villages, and Indian reservations. Joseph H. Colton's company, founded in the early 1830s, dominated atlas and map publishing in the United States almost until the end of the century. The New Mexico & Arizona map was published by his sons, who took over the firm in the 1860s.

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

385. CONKLING, Roscoe P. & Margaret B. Conkling. THE BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL 1857-1869. Its Organization and Operation over the Southern Route to 1861; Subsequently over the Central Route to 1866; and under Wells, Fargo and Company in 1869. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1947. 3 vols, 8vo, 412; 446pp + atlas volumes with 11 plates, add. illus. & maps in vols. I & II. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. "The primary source of information on the Butterfield Overland Mail, the first great overland postal service from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast. Roscoe... traveled over 65,000 miles and took over 4000 photographs, as well as interviewing those with personal, first-hand knowledge to document its path... With its detailed information in routes, the various stations, and the personnel, it is constantly in demand..." (Clark & Brunet 58). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.53: "...one of the truly important literary contributions to the history of the West."

386. CONNELLEY, William Elsey. DONIPHAN'S EXPEDITION and the Conquest of New Mexico and California. War with Mexico, 1846-1847. Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations. Includes a Reprint of the Work of Col. John T. Hughes. Kansas City: Bryant & Douglas, 1907. 8vo, xiv, 670, frontis., 27 illus., 8 maps, 29 portraits. Gray cloth, gilt & black lettered, laid-on b/w illus. ¶ First Edition. "The central part of this work is a reprint of John T. Hughes' report on the Doniphan Expedition, to which Connelley has added a long introduction, rosters of all companies, and eleven appended interviews or similar special reports" (Rittenhouse 125). Hughes accompanied Doniphan on the expedition and recounts the story of Kearny's battle at San Pasqual. Cowan p.139. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.122. Howes C-688.

387. CONROTTO, Eugene L. LOST DESERT BONANZAS. Maps by Norton Allen.  Palm Desert: Desert - Southwest Publishers, (1963). 8vo, 278pp, illustrated with 91 maps. Green cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. The known facts on some 100 lost mines and buried treasures described during the past quarter-century in the pages of Desert Magazine. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.84.

388. CONSTANS, Bernice. SONG OF THE SANDS.  1937. 10pp, 8 photo illus. taken in the California deserts. Wrappers. ¶ Eight poems of the desert. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.54.

389. COOK, Fred S. LEGENDS OF THE DESERT and Owens Valley.  1972. 

390. COOK, John R. & Scott G. Fulmer (eds). ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE McCAIN VALLEY STUDY AREA IN EASTERN SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, A Scientific Class II Cultural Resource Inventory. Riverside: Bureau of Land Management, California Desert Office, 1981. 251pp, illus., maps, charts. Wrappers. ¶ A collection of papers by various authors on the prehistory and history of the area.

391. COOK, Kayci. DEATH VALLEY IN PICTURES. Las Vegas: KC Publications, 1990. 

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

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

394. COOLIDGE, Dane. DEATH VALLEY PROSPECTORS. New York: Dutton, 1937. 8vo, 178pp, 16 inserted plates. Orange cloth, blue dust jacket with oval desert scene & lettering in orange. From the library of noted American western author Zane Grey with his estate stamp on the front free endpaper.  ¶ First Edition (so stated) of these sketches of old prospectors, including Breyfogle, Smitty, Le Mogne, Shorty Harris, and Scotty. The photographs, by the author, depict Scotty, Panamint Tom, Dad Fairbanks, Oscar Denton, Shorty Harris, and several landscapes of the mining towns. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.55. Paher 378. Reprinted in 1985 by the Sagebrush Press.

395. COOLIDGE, Dane. FIGHTING MEN OF THE WEST. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1932). 8vo, 178pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. Of desert interest, with 33 pages devoted to Death Valley Scotty, together with chapters on Tom Horn, Clay Allison, Bat Masterson, and Billy the Kid. Coolidge characterized Walter Scott (Death Valley Scotty) as "one of the hardiest of prospectors, a good miner, a wonderful horseman, one of the last of the old Western frontiersmen - shrewd, intelligent, the soul of hospitality, a great story-teller and a prince of good fellows." He believed Scotty did in fact have a rich mine - "No man would squander money the way he did without some color to show for it." Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.55.

396. COOLIDGE, Dane. HORSE-KETCHUM. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1930). 8vo, 236pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of another novel set in Death Valley. Not in Baird & Greenwood.

397. COOLIDGE, Dane. LOST WAGONS. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1923). 8vo, 256pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of a novel set in Death Valley. "A prospector swears to avenge himself upon a stock promoter who swindled him out of a mine (Baird & Greenwood 534).

398. COOLIDGE, Dane. SHADOW MOUNTAIN. New York: W.J. Watt & Co., (1919). 8vo, vi, (2), 311pp. Cloth, dust jacket, the frontispiece & jacket illustrated by George W. Gage. ¶ First Edition of a novel with plot laid in Death Valley. A mining engineer finds an abandoned mining town and brings it back to life. Not in Baird & Greenwood. Western writer Coolidge, born in Massachusetts in 1873, moved to his father's orange ranch in Riverside four years later. After attending Stanford and Harvard he became a collector of live animals for zoological museums, and made extensive photographs of western animals, Indians, and cowboys.

399. COOLIDGE, Dane. SNAKE-BIT JONES. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1936). 8vo, 280pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of a Coolidge western based on Death Valley Scotty. Baird & Greenwood 535.

400. COOLIDGE, Dane. TRAIL OF GOLD. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1937. 8vo, 232pp. Cloth.  ¶ First Edition of a western set partly in Death Valley. "Story of a young prospector and an Indian girl during the days of the Nevada mining boom... (Baird & Greenwood 536).

401. COOLIDGE, Dane. WUNPOST. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1920). 8vo, 273pp. Red cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a novel set in Death Valley. "An illiterate but handsome Death Valley prospector boasts of his mining discoveries to the wrong people" (Baird & Greenwood 537).

402. (COOLIDGE, Matthew). ROUTE 58. A Cross-Section of California. A Guide to Unusual and Exemplary Land Use Along the Roadway from Barstow to Santa Margarita. (Culver City: Center for Land Use Interpretation), (1997). 8vo, 78pp, b/w photo-illus. & text maps throughout, 1 folding map. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ Route 58 heads west from Barstow through Bakersfield to Santa Margarita just north of San Luis Obispo.

403. COONEY, Percival J. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA IN CIVIL WAR DAYS. [In:] Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 1, pp.54-68. Los Angeles: 1924. 

404. COOPER, Erwin. AQUEDUCT EMPIRE: A Guide to Water in California, Its Turbulent History, and Its Management Today. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1968. 8vo, 439pp, 38 photos & a fold-out map. Brown cloth, gilt title, top edge green, photo-pictorial dust jacket.  ¶ First Edition. Western Lands & Waters Series VII.

405. COOPER, Jilly & Patrick Lichfield. HOTFOOT TO ZABRISKIE POINT. London: Constable, 1984. 

406. COOPER, John D. GEOLOGIC EXCURSIONS IN THE TRANSVERSE RANGES, Southern California. Anaheim: Geological Society of America, 1982.  ¶ 78th Annual Meeting, Cordilleran Section Geological Society of America.

407. COOPER, John D. & Bennie W. Troxel. GEOLOGY OF SELECTED AREAS in the San Bernardino, Western Mojave Desert, and  Southern Great Basin, California, Cordilleran Section GSA, Volume and Guidebook. Geological Society of America, 1982. 202pp, illustrated, wrappers.

408. COOPER, John W. GEOLOGIC EXCURSIONS IN THE CALIFORNIA DESERT. Anaheim: Geological Society of America, 1982. 

409. COOPER, Marilyn & Katherine Plake Hough. CONTEMPORARY DESERT PHOTOGRAPHY. The Other Side of Paradise. Palm Springs Desert Museum, (2005). Sq. 8vo, (4), 59. (1)pp, with 25 color plates. Color wrappers. ¶ The exhibition at the Palm Springs Museum (December 2005 through March 2006) included John Divola, Robert Dawson, Ed Freeman, Lee Friedlander, Karen Halverson, Stuart Klipper, Jim Sanborn, et al. Biographies of the artists are included.

410. COOPER, Patricia & Laurel Cook. HOT SPRINGS AND SPAS OF CALIFORNIA. A Guide to Taking the Waters. Drawings by Fran Attaway. San Francisco: 101 Productions, (1978). 8vo, 156pp, line drawings throughout. Wrappers.  ¶ First Edition. Over half of this guide is devoted to Southern California hot springs, with 25 pages on Desert Hot Springs. Besides Two Bunch, the authors review the Desert Inn (now the DHS Spa Hotel), Linda Vista Lodge (now a senior residence), the Ponce de Leon (later La Toscana & Shilla), Sam's Family Spa in Sky Valley, the Spa Townhouse (now El Reposo), the Whitehouse, and the Waldorf Health Resort (now apartments on Mesquite). The authors suggest there were 100 spa-tels in DHS in the mid 1970's. The Palm Springs Spa Hotel and Highland Springs in Beaumont are included as well.

Laurel Olson Cook also authored California Spas: Spas for All Tastes and Budgets, a Pack-Along Leisure Guide (Foghorn Press 1992); California Spas & Urban Retreats (Emeryville: Foghorn Press, 1994); and Spas of California (A print on demand book, which mentions two spas in Desert Hot Springs).

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

412. CORLE, Edwin.  DESERT COUNTRY. Edited by Erskine Caldwell. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1941. 8vo, 357pp. Brown buckram, dust jacket. ¶ "By desert in this book is meant the arid land of the American Southwest, in general that area between the Pacific Coast Range and the Rocky Mountain chain, that great basin region which includes such deserts as the Mojave, the Colorado, the Amargosa, and Arizona's western slope. This desert land, which also includes Death Valley, and the Panamint Valley, all of Nevada and western Utah, and the watershed of the Little Colorado River which is the Painted Desert, is contiguous. It is only man who has broken it up into arbitrary divisions. The desert doesn't stop at a State line or a mountain barrier or a damsite. The beast is all of a piece..." Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.56: "By all odds it may be considered one of California's great books of the desert; a book that is certain to endure." The first book in the American Folkways Series. Includes a beautiful account of Jack Mitchell's discovery of the caves in the Mojave. Paher 382: "An accurate and entertaining book."

413. CORLE, Edwin.  MOJAVE, A Book of Stories.  New York: Liveright, (1934). 8vo, 272pp. Red cloth stamped in orange, dust jacket.  ¶ First Edition of the author's first book, the dedication copy, inscribed by Corle "with my love/ E.C." beneath the printed dedication "To H.F." Fourteen stories set in the Mojave desert during the depression of the 'thirties. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.57: "The first yarn, Listen, Desert... is a masterpiece of desert literature." Baird & Greenwood 545. Paher 384.d (QUERY: who is H.F.?)

414. CORLE, Edwin.  MOJAVE, A Book of Stories. New York: Pennant Books, (1953). 12mo, (6), 169, (1 ads). Wrapper art by S. Greco. ¶ First paperback edition.

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

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

417. CORLE, Edwin & Ansel Adams. DEATH VALLEY AND THE CREEK CALLED FURNACE. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1962. 4to,  (9), 60pp & 32 b/w photo plates by Ansel Adams. Gray cloth lettered in silver, pictorial dust jacket. ¶ First Edition thus, with a Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. "This book reprints the Death Valley portion of Corle's earlier (1941) Desert Country. The superb photographic plates by Ansel Adams lend character, and cause the book to become an identity rather than just another reprint" (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.56).

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

419. CORNETT, James W. DEATH VALLEY, A Pictorial History.  Death Valley Natural History Association, 1986. 4to, 48pp, color illus. Wrappers. 

420. CORNETT, James W. DESERT PALM OASIS. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1989. 4to, 47, (1)pp, color photo illus. throughout. Color wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Cornett, a specialist on the California Fan Palm, also took the photographs for this guide. He was the Curator of Natural Science at the Palm Springs Desert Museum.

421. CORNETT, James W. HOW INDIANS USE DESERT PLANTS. Desert Hot Springs: Nature Trails Press, 2001. 

422. CORNETT, James W. THE CALIFORNIA DESERTS: Today and Yesterday. Palm Springs: Automobile Club of Southern California, (1998). 8vo, 48pp. Wrappers.

423. CORNETT, James W. THE ROADRUNNER. Palm Springs: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 2000.  ¶ By the former Curator of Natural Science at the Palm Springs Desert Museum.

424. CORNETT, James W. THE SAN JACINTO MOUNTAINS, A Brief Natural History. (Palm Springs: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1996). 8vo, 32pp, with photos by the author. Wrappers.

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

426. CORNETT, Jim [James W.]. WILDLIFE OF THE SOUTHWEST DESERTS. Desert Hot Springs: Nature Trails Press, (1975). 8vo, 80pp.

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

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

429. CORY, Harry Thomas. REPORT ON THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE CALIFORNIA DEVELOPMENT COMPANY and its Subsidiary Company, La Sociedad de Riego y Terrenos de la Baja California, S.A., on November 1, Calexico, 1906.  ¶ Cited, by no copies located in World Cat.

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

431. COSBY, Andrew & Johanna Stokes. DEATH VALLEY. Volume 1. Boom Studios, 2007. 

432. COUTS, Cave. HEPAH, CALIFORNIA! The Journal of Cave Johnson Couts from Nuevo Leon, Mexico, to Los Angeles, California During the Years 1848-1849. Edited by Henry F. Dobyns. Tucson: Arizona Pioneers' Historical Society, 1961. 8vo, 113, (8)pp, frontis. portrait, 4 leaves of plates, 9 maps (1 folding), text illus. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. The journal documents the First United States Dragoons' march from Mexico to Los Angeles in 1848-49. In 1848 they crossed the Colorado where Couts nearly drowned. Couts served in the Boundary Survey until 1851 and later married the daughter of Bandini and presided over Rancho Guajome. The existence of this journal now in the Huntington Library, prior to its publication, was largely unknown. 750 copies were printed by Lawton Kennedy. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.59-60.

433. (Couts, Cave). SCHARF, Thomas L. PAGES FROM THE DIARY OF CAVE JOHNSON COUTS: San Diego in the Spring and Summer of 1849. [In:] The Journal of San Diego History, Vol. 26, No. 2, Spring, 1976. 

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

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

436. COWAN, Ernie. ANZA-BORREGO: A Photographic Journey. San Diego: Sunbelt, 2008. 80pp. Cloth, dust jacket.  ¶ A collection of color photographs.

437. COWAN, Robert Ernest. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC COAST. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1914. 8vo, cloth. ¶ Cowan's first bibliography describes about 1000 items, more than half with notes based on his personal knowledge and experience. Zamorano Eighty no. 23: "The compiler, for many years the greatest authority on the bibliography of California, has listed in this work about one thousand titles that would appear to be of the greatest interest to the collector or the student of California history in the broadest sense." A revised edition was issued by Long's College Book Company in Columbus, Ohio, with an introduction by Henry R. Wagner and additional notes by Robert G. Cowan.

438. COWAN, Robert Ernest & Robert Granniss Cowan. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. 1510-1930.  Los Angeles:  1964. 4 vols in 1, 8vo, v, 926pp. Three-quarter green cloth. ¶ Originally published in 1933 by Nash, with a supplement exclusive to this edition. In 1933 Dr Cowan recognized the need for a more inclusive bibliography limited exclusively to California, and with his son, Robert Granniss Cowan, brought out their Bibliography of the History of California 1510-1930, listing nearly five thousand titles.

439. COWLES, Raymond B. DESERT JOURNAL, A Naturalist Reflects on Arid California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. 8vo, xv, 263pp, illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. A lifetime reminiscence by one of the California desert's most renowned naturalists, written in collaboration with Elna S. Bakker, and with drawings by Erhard Bakker and photographs by Roy Pence and the author.

440. COX, Cornelius C. FROM TEXAS TO CALIFORNIA IN 1849: Diary of C.C. Cox. Edited by Mabelle Eppard Martin. [In:]  Southwestern Historical Quarterly, July & August, 1926.  ¶ Cox was among the emigrants who chose the Southern route to the goldfields, crossing the Colorado Desert in 1849. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.60.

441. COY, Owen. THE BATTLE OF SAN PASQUAL: A Report of the California Historical Survey Commission with Special Reference to its Location. Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1921. 8vo, 18pp, incl. 2 maps & 1 photo plate. Wrappers. ¶ An act of the California Legislature provided for one acre of land as the site of the historic battle and  the publication of this account. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.60-61.

442. COY, Owen. GREAT TREK. Los Angeles: Powell Publishing Co., 1931. 8vo, 349pp, illus. by Franz Geritz. Blue cloth, gilt. ¶ A good picture of Westward emigration, with a section on Death Valley. Coy includes interesting extracts from the diaries of many overland emigrants.

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

444. CRAGEN, Dorothy. THE BOYS IN THE BLUE SKY PANTS. The Men and Events at Camp Independence and Forts of Eastern California, Nevada and Utah, 1862-1877. Fresno, 1976. 

445. CRAMPTON, Frank A. DEEP ENOUGH. A Working Stiff in the Western Mining Camps. Denver: Sage Books (Allan Swallow), 1956. 8vo, 275pp, numerous photos. Silver cloth lettered in gilt, silver pictorial dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of Crampton's account of life in the mining camps of Goldfield, Rawhide, Pioche, Goodsprings, Cherry Creek, etc, 1900 to 1920. "Chief value is its realistic portrayal of the cold, hard, demanding day-to-day life of mining camp men early in this century. Crampton elevated himself from a bindle-stiff miner to a self-taught surveyor and assayer and finally a mining engineer. A very important mining item" (Paher 399). Includes a hitherto unpublished photo of Mark Twain in a bathing suit. Reprinted by the University of Oklahoma Press.

446. CRAMPTON, Frank A. LEGEND OF JOHN LAMOIGNE and Song of the Desert Rats. Denver: Sage Books, (1956). 8vo, 32pp, photo text illus., map. Wrappers.  ¶ First Edition. The story of Death Valley's greatest prospector, with good material on the Furnace Creek Ranch. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.61. Also includes "The Law Goes West" by Forbes Parkhill, "Murder & Mirth - The Story of a Colorado Trail Lawyer" by Fancher Sarchet.

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

448. CRAWFORD, J.J. CALIFORNIA MINING BUREAU, TWELFTH REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOGIST (Second Biennial), Two Years Ending September 15,  Sacramento, 1894. 

449. CRAWFORD, Thomas E. THE WEST OF THE TEXAS KID, 1881-1910: Recollections of Thomas Edgar Crawford: Cowboy, Gun Fighter, Rancher, Hunter & Miner. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. 8vo, xviii, 202pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, edited by Jeff Dykes. The final section includes an abundance of California desert material, including "Death Valley Ways, 1906-1910." Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.62: "Some unusually good descriptive writing on the Mojave Desert, particularly in the Panamint area... This account, written by an on-the-scene observer, is one of the most intimate records available concerning the day-by-day life in the old supply camp during the peak of its activity."

450. CROCKER, Francis. THE STORY OF MISS CORNELIA'S LITTLE HOUSE. Palm Springs, 1972. 8vo, wrappers. ¶ Published on the occasion of the dedication of the house as "a monument to an era long gone."

451. CROFUTT, George. CROFUTT'S OVERLAND TOURS... Chicago: Rand, McNally, 1890. 8vo, 264pp, wood-engraved plates, folding map of the Western U.S. Cloth. ¶ Crofutt's guides gave detailed information on towns, railway stations, government forts, and camps for the westbound traveler on the railways. Paher, Nevada, 404 discusses the series.

452. CRONISE, Titus Fey. THE NATURAL WEALTH OF CALIFORNIA... A Detailed Description of each County... San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft,  1868. 4to, xvi, 696pp, frontis. & fifteen woodcut plates. Green pebbled cloth, gilt. ¶ First Edition of a thorough and under-appreciated compendium of information on the state of California. "The best and most reliable work of the time. Many copies were issued with the plates omitted" (Cowan) but why the book is often found without plates has never been explained. BAL 7243. Bret Harte is listed in the introduction for his contribution to "the preparation of material." Edwards, The Enduring Desert, pp.62-63: "Cronise gives us one of our earliest published book references to Death Valley, naming it as such" and notes desert material on pp.94-103; 117-120; 280-288. Sabin 17608. Wheat, Gold Rush, 53.

453. CRONKHITE, Daniel. DEATH VALLEY'S VICTIMS. A Descriptive Chronology 1849-1977. Verdi, NV: Sagebrush Press, 1968. 8vo, 33, (3)pp, 12 illus.  ¶ First Edition, limited to 225 deluxe copies and 750 in wrappers, hand-set and printed by the author. Arranged chronologically from 1849 through 1966, the author lists those who have met their death on the sands of Death Valley. A revised edition was issued in 1977. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.63. Paher 406: "Carefully researched material."

454. CRONKHITE, Daniel. DEATH VALLEY'S VICTIMS. A Descriptive Chronology 1849-1977. Illustrated with Seventeen Photographic Plates. Title Page Illustration by E.M. Cronkhite. Morongo Valley: Sagebrush Press, 1977. 8vo, xi, (l), 54pp, 17 b/w photos. Printed wrappers. ¶ Second edition, revised and enlarged, printed by the author. Arranged chronologically from 1849 through 1977, the author lists those who have met their death on the sands of Death Valley. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.63.

455. CRONKHITE, Daniel. RECOLLECTIONS OF A YOUNG DESERT RAT: Impressions of Nevada and Death Valley. Verdi, NV: Sagebrush Press, 1972. 8vo, (10), 102pp + 8pp of photos. Beige cloth, gilt, illustrated dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, limited to 777 copies printed by the author. Paher 409: "A sensitive, thoughtful author relates his impressions of people and places he has encountered in the Nevada desert."

456. CROTSENBURG, Maxine & Cal. GATEWAY TO THE HI-DESERT, A History of Morongo Valley. (Morongo Valley: The Golden Age Club), [ca. 1958]. 8vo, (28)pp, 14 photos by Glenn Nufer. Yellow wrappers. ¶ First Edition. What is now known as the Morongo Basin is roughly a narrow corridor which stretches from Morongo Valley to the Dale Mining District east of Twentynine Palms. Includes a chapter on Willie Boy. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.63: "Outstanding are the photographs contained in this scarce booklet of our High Desert country."

457. CROWE, Earle. GENERAL BEALE'S SHEEP ODESSY [sic], an Account from Original Sources of a Nomadic Sheep Drive in 1879 from Kern County, California, over Uncharted Desert Trails and Across Turbulent Mountain Streams to Green River, Wyoming. Bakersfield: Kern County Historical Society, 1960. 8vo, 22pp, maps. Wrappers. ¶ A little-known account of an early sheep drive from the deserts of California and Nevada to Wyoming. Paher 412.

458. CROWE, Richard [et al]. BOOMTOWN BANNERS. Los Angeles: Death Valley '49ers,  1980. 8vo,12pp, illus. Wrappers. ¶ Keepsake no. 20.

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

460. CROWELL, Russell. MINER'S MAP OF DEATH VALLEY, The Mojave, Amargosa, and Nevada Deserts. 1903. 

461. (Crowley, Father John). BROOKS, Joan. DESERT PADRE: The Life and Writings of Father John J. Crowley. Desert Hot Springs: Mesquite Press, 1997.  ¶ Father Crowley wrote under the pen name of "Inyokel" in the more than 200 "Sage and Tumbleweed" columns which he published from August of 1934 through March of 1940. Perhaps Father Crowley's talents as a producer and showman explain why he related so well to the personnel of the movie industry when they came to Lone Pine to shoot films in the nearby Alabama Hills. During the years that Father Crowley was in Lone Pine, such famous movies as Gunga Din, Lives of the Bengal Lancers, Oil for the Lamps of China, Charge of the Light Brigade, Rhythm on the Range, and numerous westerns featuring Ken Maynard, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and William Boyd were filmed. Joan Brooks was the former publisher of American Desert magazine and co-author of the Desert Magazine Index. She became interested in the story of Father Crowley on a trip to California's Eastern Sierra.

462. CUNNINGHAM, Bill & Polly. CACTI, SHRUBS, AND TREES OF ANZA-BORREGO: An Amateur's Key for Identifying Desert Plants. Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association.

463. CURRENT, Karen. PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE OLD WEST. Photographs Selected and Printed by William R. Current. New York: Harry Abrams in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, (1986). Obl. 4to, 272pp, 172 duotone plates throughout. Grey cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Includes biographies of 19 photographers, including Muybridge, O'Sullivan, Jackson, Watkins, and Russell.

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

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

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