EDGERTON, Lucile Selk. PILLARS OF GOLD. New York: Knopf, 1941. 8vo, 408pp. ¶ “Melodrama combined with a large body of historical documentation in a novel about a group attempting to build support for the Confederacy during the Arizona mining boom in the 1860s” (Baird & Greenwood 734). Edwards, Lost Oases, p.83.


EDWARDS, Charles Lincoln. JOSE; A Story of the Desert Cahuilla. Los Angeles: City School District, 1930. 8vo, 21pp, 4 illus. Wrappers. ¶ Includes material on the Devil’s Cactus Garden and on Twentynine Palms. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.72.


EDWARDS, Charles Lincoln. STORY OF THE COLORADO DESERT. Los Angeles: City School District, 1928. 8vo, 16pp. Wrappers. ¶ An introduction to the desert for juveniles. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.72.


EDWARDS, E.I. DESERT HARVEST. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1962. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, limited to 600 copies. “In this synthesis of exploration and writing about the Southwest, the compiler lists and describes his favorite twenty-five titles in the field of desert literature” (Father Weber).


EDWARDS, E.I. DESERT VOICES - A Descriptive Bibliography. Foreword and Photographs by Harold O. Weight. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1958. 8vo, xxviii, 215pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition, one of 500 unnumbered copies, of the forerunner to the Enduring Desert. Approximately 1500 items relating to California deserts are listed descriptively.


EDWARDS, E.I. “INTO AN ALKALI VALLEY”: The First Written Account of Death Valley. Los Angeles: Edwards and Williams, 1948. 8vo, 8pp. Wrappers. ¶ One of 250 copies, printing the first written account of Death Valley - Jayhawker Party-member Sheldon Young’s logbook for the week of December 24 through 31, 1849. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.73.


EDWARDS, E.I. THE ENDURING DESERT, a Descriptive Bibliography. Foreword by Russ Leadabrand. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie, 1969. 8vo, xiii, [1], 306 pp, index. Tan cloth with matching slipcase. ¶ First Edition. The culmination of Edwards’ long career as the preeminent bibliographer of the California desert, and the essential reference tool for desert collectors and enthusiasts. He ponders “the writings of the historian, the folklorist, the novelist, the magazine writer, the newspaperman,” putting each into its proper place and perspective (Russ Leadabrand). “Edwards’ close encounters with the region informs every entry” (Powell, Land of Fact, 11). An earlier and considerably shorter version was title Desert Voices.


EDWARDS, E.I. THE MYSTERY OF DEATH VALLEY’S LOST WAGON TRAIN. [N.p.]: [printed by Ward Ritchie Press], (1964). 8vo, [60]pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. White wrappers, lettered in black. ¶ First edition in book form, reprinted from an article in The Westerners Brand Book Number 11, 1964 of the Los Angeles Corral. Limited to 200 copies.


EDWARDS, E.I. THE VALLEY WHOSE NAME IS DEATH. Pasadena: San Pasqual Press, 1940. 8vo, (vi), 122pp, frontispiece map, diagram. White-stamped cloth with paper spine label. ¶ One of 500 copies, according to Edwards, not withstanding the stated limitation of 1000 copies. The author’s first historical and bibliographical essay on Death Valley, greatly expanded in his later work. Offers an excellent census of the Death Valley parties, their routes, and a bibliography of some 600 items, with critical comments. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.74-75.


EDWARDS, E.I. [Elza Ivan]. A SENTIMENTAL VENTURE. Norco: Tales of the Mojave Road, (1976). 8vo, 71pp, illus. with b&w drawings. Leatherette, gilt lettered and illus., illus. endpapers. ¶ First Edition, signed by Edwards on the title. Four essays by the desert bibliographer, originally addressed to a meeting of The Westerners, about his boyhood in early 20th century Idaho. Includes a bibliography of his writings to date. Laid-in are an ALS by publisher and author of the foreword, Dennis Casebier, together with Friends of the Mojave Road promotional materials.


EDWARDS, E. I. [Elza Ivan]. DESERT YARNS. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1946. 8vo, (viii), 43pp, original patterned boards backed in beige linen lettered in brown, in plain cream dust wrapper. ¶ Only Edition, one of 250 copies, of a collection of short tales set in the deserts of Southern California, often with spiritual overtones. “These yarns are real; they tell of some fugitive adventure - some typical desert experience - that occurred on the wise stretches of the great Mojave along the road that leads to Death Valley” (Preface). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.73.


(Edwards, E.I.). WEIGHT, Lucile. His Books Open Doors on California Deserts.” [In:] Out West, V, October, 1970. ¶ A bio-bibliographical essay on the desert bibliographer Elza Evan Edwards.


EDWARDS, E[laza] I[van]. WALKER, Ardis M. FREEMAN’S, A STAGE STOP ON THE MOJAVE [with:] FREEMAN JUNCTION, The Escape Route of the Mississippians and Georgians from Death Valley in 1849. Glendale/San Bernardino: La Siesta Press/ Death Valley ’49ers, 1964-61. 2 works, 8vo, 47pp, b/w photo-illus., double-suite map; 16pp, photo-illus. Each work in printed wrappers, signed by their respective authors at the title and housed cloth-backed slipcase with orig. publisher’s label for the Edwards title affixed. ¶ First Edition. “The book supplies a background history for what was once a flourishing establishment known as Coyotes Holes, located near what is now called Freeman Junction on the Mojave Desert where the Walker Pass road to Bakersfield turns off the Bishop Highway [State 14]. The early historic photographs are of special value. There is much material on the famous highwayman, Tiburcio Vasquez, and his Mojave Desert raids from nearby Robbers’ Roost. These oddly-placed rocks are plainly visible from the highway” (Edwards, The Enduring Desert, p.75).


EDWARDS, E[lza] I[van]. LOST OASES ALONG THE CARRIZO. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1961. 8vo, xvi, 126 pp. 8 pages of plates from black-and-white photographs, endpaper map. Tan cloth, with gold-embossed front cover decoration and gold-lettered spine, pictorial dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, one of 500 copies. The story of an isolated corridor in one of the most desolate sections of the Colorado Desert, and of a remote palm tree oasis that once flourished midway through the corridor. “On at least four separate occasions epoch-making history surged westward through this particular segment of desert to enact drama of profound importance to the long-range development of California” (Edwards enduring Desert, p.73).


EDWARDS, Elaza Ivan. DESERT TREASURE: A Bibliography. Los Angeles: Edwards and Williams, 1948. 8vo, xi, 42pp. Printed grey wrappers. ¶ A chronological listing by author, title and description of 445 California desert items with an added supplement of 65 entries. According to Edwards’ introduction, a special limited second edition of 250 copies of the catalogue had been prepared.


EDWARDS, William and Beatrice Harraden. TWO HEALTH SEEKERS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 1897.


EGGERS, Margaret R. MINING HISTORY AND GEOLOGY OF JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK: San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California. San Diego: San Diego Association of Geologists, 2004. 8vo, xiv, 119pp, b/w illus. throughout, color illus. on inside wrappers front & rear, large fold-out chart at rear. Illus. wrappers.


ELIOT, Charles and Douglas Black. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COACHELLA VALLEY. A Report Prepared by... for the Riverside County Planning Commission. 1948. 31pp.


ELLENBERGER, John G. THE JAYHAWKERS OF DEATH VALLEY. Marysville, Kansas: 1938. 8vo, 130pp, with numerous photogrpahs. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition. “...a thesaurus of information... He contacted, personally, every known descendent of every known pioneer... the task to which he assigned himself was a stupendous one; the result was successful, even beyong his own fondest expectation” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.75-76). Shortly before his death Ellenberger prepared a 5 page supplement to his book.


ELLIS, Arthur Jackson and Charles Hamilton Lee. GEOLOGY AND GROUND WATERS OF THE WESTERN PART OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919. 8vo, 321pp, color maps, fold-out charts, 16 plates & maps in rear pocket. ¶ Describes the hot springs on Warner’s Ranch. Water Supply Paper 446.


ELLIS, George Merle. TRAPPER TRAILS TO CALIFORNIA, 1826-1832: The Narratives, Journals, Diaries, and Letters of the Mountain Men Who Reached California over the Southern Routes... [N.p.]: The Author, 1954. 4to, (2), 24ff, photo-reprod. typescript. Yellow wrappers. ¶ Photo-reproduction of Ellis’s master’s thesis submitted to the Department of English and San Diego State College, August, 1954.


ELLSBERG, Helen. MINES OF JULIAN. (Glendale): La Siesta Press, (1972). 12mo, 72pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout, with errata slip tipped-in. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


EMERSON, Willis George. THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED HIMSELF. Chicago: Forbes & Company, 1919. ¶ First Edition. “At age 50, Marsh Gordon finds himself a consumptive in a seaside resort in southern California. In despair, he takes to the desert, is reported dead, but with the help of a railway station master recovers his health. Later he is elected Governor of Arizona” (Baird & Greenwood 757).


EMORY, W. H. Introduction and notes by Ross Calvin LIEUTENANT EMORY REPORTS. A Reprint of Lieutenant W.H. Emory’s Notes of a Military Reconnoissance. Introduction and Notes by Ross Calvin. University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, 1951. 8vo, 208pp, maps in text. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First reprint of Notes of Military Reconnoissance, originally published in 1848 comprising “...the earliest competent scientific account of the American Southwest...” Emory’s mission was “to inform the War Department of the military, scientific, and economic value of the territory from Bent’s Fort westward to the Pacific. In a word, to ascertain whether the vast Southwest was worth the efforts of General Kearny and his Army of the West to take it from Mexico, and if so, if it was worth keeping” (the Publisher). This reprint leaves out much now obsolescent scientific data of little interest to modern readers and the 12pp of notes by Ross Calvin significantly clarify the text. Subdivision 5 follows Kearny’s Army of the West across the Colorado Desert to Warner’s Ranch and the springs at Agua Caliente. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.76-77. Cf. Howes E-145.


EMORY, William H. NOTES OF A MILITARY RECONNOISSANCE from Ft Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, in California, including parts of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers. Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers, 1848. 8vo, 416pp, 40 plates, 3 plans, and 1 large folding map (very good state but for minor tears folds) in pocket at end. Orig. brown cloth, light wear to spine and label. Preserved in a handsome brown cloth drop box with palm trees blind embossed on covers. ¶ First Edition, second state of the Senate issue (with Emory’s rank given as Brevet Major), with the somewhat abbreviated set of plates in comparison to those in the House of Representatives version (40 versus 64), but containing the large map in pocket at rear. This Senate issue also includes the reports of J.W. Abert and Philip St. George Cooke. Together the three summarize the activity of the U.S. Army to the west of Santa Fe after the capture of New Mexico by the Army of the West. The first of the folding maps is Philip St. George Cooke’s “Sketch of Part of the March & Wagon Road of Lt Colonel Cooke, from Santa Fe to the Pacific Ocean, 1846-7.” This shows the route of the Mormon Battalion from Santa Fe to the Gila River. The other, “Map of the Territory of New Mexico,” was compiled by Lieutenants Abert and Peck after the conquest of New Mexico. Both are important contributions to western cartography. Abert’s report includes material on the Indians of New Mexico and their languages. The Abert report also includes his views of New Mexico, the best group of early New Mexico views published. Wagner-Camp is in error in the collation of this edition, mistakenly calling for only forty plates, plus those of the Abert report. There are, in fact, more natural history plates. The large map is called by Wheat “a document of towering significance in the cartographic history of the West,” and “epoch-making.” Edwards, Lost Oases, p.59: “Emory’s Reconnoissance is our most informative source record of Kearney’s march into California. It gives us, as well, our earliest and best descriptive guide to his route of travel. The book was particularly useful, and valued highly, by parties crossing this desert for many years following its publication... The book - with its information concerning watering places, trails, Indians, vegetation and animals - became the emigrants’ bible. ..the book, scarce in the first edition., was reprinted in 1951...” Wagner-Camp 148:5 notes, “[H]is report was a major contribution to the geographical knowledge of North America. His map, in which he limited himself to recording only the data which he and his assistants had actually observed, was the first accurate description of that vast area, and is still regarded as one of the landmarks of American cartography.” Cowan p.195. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.77. Flake 3165. Field 500. Hill p.299. Howes E-145. McKelvey, Botanical Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi West, pp.990-1018. Wheat, Transmississippi, 505, 532. Wagner-Camp 148:2. Zamorano 80, 33.


EMORY, William H. REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY SURVEY, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Washington, 1857-59. 2 vols bound in 3, large 4to, 100s of plates, many lithographed in color, plus charts, maps, and profiles, many plates hand-colored. ¶ First Edition of this remarkable and important work on the exploration and mapping of the American Southwest. Emory undertook one of the first systematic studies of the topography and natural history of the area; together with his report are scientific appendices by James Hall, T.A. Conrad, and others, and superb maps by Jekyll and Hall, and plates after Schott, Weyss, and Vaudricourt. There are 25 colored plates of birds by Spencer Baird, lithographed by Bowen & Co, as well as many fine color plates of Indians and topography. Interestingly, the boundary has remained intact, with only minor changes, since Emory’s survey. Alarmed by the high cost of the first volume of the work, Congress ordered much smaller printings of the subsequent volumes. Wheat, Transmississippi III, chap.30: “Emory’s Report was perhaps the most complete scientific description ever made of the lands, the people , and the border country.” Basic Texas Books 57: “One of the most significant of all government reports on western and southern TexasÉ the set is only rarely found complete.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.77-78; Lost Oases p.75. Hill p.300. Howes E-146. Raines p.76. Reese, Stamped with a National Character, 31. Wagner-Camp 291. Wheat, Transmississippi, 916. Appears in both Senate and House issues (with different pagination) and bound in either 2 or 3 vols.


EMORY, William H. REPORT ON THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICAN BOUNDARY SURVEY, Made under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1987. 3 vols, numerous illus., some in color, folding maps. Quarter dark blue cloth with boards in orange cloth, orange cloth slipcase. ¶ Excellent reprint.


ERNENWEIN, Leslie. RAMPAGE. New York: Gold Medal Books, (1953). 12mo, 169, (5)pp. Illustrated wrappers. ¶ Paperback original - a Mojave love triangle between a man, a girl, and the Colorado River.


EVANS, Carolyn & Joan Wilson. REMEMBRANCES OF THE HIGH DESERT and the Communities of Morongo Valley, Palm Wells, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, Landers, Joshua Tree and Twentynine Palms. Yucca Valley: Artcraft Print Shop, 1966 49pp, photographic illus., double-page map of the area. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.78.


EVANS, James R., et al. MINES AND MINERAL DEPOSITS IN DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL MONUMENT, CALIFORNIA... Sacramento: California Division of Mines and Geology, 1976. 4to, 61pp, b/w photo-illus., maps and charts throughout. Green wrappers, lettered in black. ¶ Special Report 125, with 6 maps.


(Ewing, John). HILL, Joseph John. JOHN EWING IN THE FUR TRADE of the Far Southwest, 1822-1834. Eugene: Or: Koke-Fiffany, 1923. ¶ First Edition. Cowan p.280.


EYRAUD, Cole. LEGEND OF CABOT YERXA. ¶ Pamphlet biography of the pioneer of Desert Hot Springs by the man who saved the Old Indian Pueblo Museum from extinction.


(Eytel, Carl). HUDSON, Roy F. FORGOTTEN DESERT ARTIST. The Journals and Field Sketches of Carl Eytel... Palm Springs: Desert Museum, 1979. 4to, xviii, 118pp, 189 illustrations. Orig. cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Edition limited to 1000 copies.


FAIRCHILD, Mahlon Dickerson. “A Trip to the Colorado Mines in 1862,” in: California Historical Society Quarterly, 1933. pp.11-17. ¶ Fairchild kept a diary of his journey along the Bradshaw to the Colorado River mines Road. It is the earliest published record of this route.


FARISH, Thomas Edin. HISTORY OF ARIZONA. Phoenix: Filmer Brothers Electrotype Co., 1915-1918. 8 vols, 8vo, cloth. ¶ First Edition. Howes F-37.


FARNSWORTH, Harriett. REMNANTS OF THE OLD WEST... San Antonia, Texas: Naylor, (1965). 8vo, xv, 139pp, 8 hors-texte b/w photo-plates. Black cloth, illus. vignette and spine lettering in blue, dust jacket illustrated by Donald Yena. ¶ “California, Nevada and Arizona share honors in Mrs Farnsworth’s book. And mostly all of it is desert....Remanants of the Old West is a book every one...should read and own” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.81).


FARQUHAR, Francis F. THE BOOKS OF THE COLORADO RIVER & THE GRAND CANYON, A Selective Bibliography. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1953. 8vo, (11), 75pp, illus. Cloth. ¶ One of 600 copies. Early California Travels Series 12. Farquhar describes 125 books, arranged in chronological order. With a copy of an article by Daniel Cassidy, The Literature of the Grand Canyon and Colorado River, AB Bookman, Oct. 6, 1997. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.82.


FARR, F.C., ed. THE HISTORY OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. Berkeley: Elms & Franks, 1918. 526pp. ¶ First Edition, primarily a mug book but the desert country is is described and accounts of prominent individuals of the area provide an important history. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.82.


FARRIS, William M. THE 1847 CROSSING OF IMPERIAL COUNTY, California and Baja California, Mexico by the U.S. Mormon Battalion. I.V.C. Museum Society Occasional Paper No. 2. El Centro: Imperial Valley Museum Society, 1975. 23pp, illus.


FERGUSON, Melville F. MOTOR CAMPING ON WESTERN TRAILS. New York: The Century Company, 1925. 8vo, 300pp, 56 plates. ¶ Chapters 18 & 19 offer an early account of Palm Springs and the Imperial Valley. Edwards, Enduring Desert, 83.


FISHER, A.K. REPORT OF THE ORNITHOLOGY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION OF 1891, Comprising of Notes on the Birds Observed in Southern California, Southern Nevada, and Parts of Arizona and Utah (North American Fauna No. 7, May 1893) Washington: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Ornithology and Mammology, 1893. 158pp, colored map at end. ¶ First Edition.


FITCH, George Hamlin. WHERE THE DATE PALM GROWS. [In:] The Land of Sunshine, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.136-142. ¶ Gives an early view of Palm Springs, its Indians and the Palm Canyons.


FLEMING, A.M. THE GUN SIGHT MINE. Boston: Meandor Publishing Company., (1929). 8vo, 210pp. Cloth in dust jacket, jacket folded with 1 chip to rear.


FLETCHER, Colin. THE MAN FROM THE CAVE. New York: Knopf, 1981. 8vo, x, 325, (6)pp, 28 photos, 1 map. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. The author of The Man Who Walked through Time discovered an old trunk in a cave near the Colorado River and began a 12 year search for the owner. A remarkable portrait of Chuckawalla Bill Simmons slowly unfolds, tracking him from Pennsylvania to service in the Spanish American War, to the Salton Sea, through Mojave Desert mines, to a stone house in a canyon near Desert Hot Springs in the ‘thirties.


FLETCHER, Colin. THE THOUSAND-MILE SUMMER in Desert and High Sierra. Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1964. 8vo, 207pp, photo plates by the author, endpaper maps.. Cloth, illus. dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. One sleepless night Colin Fletcher, an Englishman, decided that he must walk the entire length of California. Starting near Yuman, he followed the Colorado north, crossed the Mojave, walked across Death Valley and wandered through the High Sierras. William Hogan wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle “The Thousand Mile Summer is one of the most remarkable outdoor journals I have ever read and I recommend it unreservedly, as a rare treat.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.84


FORBES, Jack D. WARRIORS OF THE COLORADO: The Yumas of the Quechan Nation and Their Neighbors. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. 378pp.


FORD, Mike. THE BOOKS OF THE GRAND CANYON, THE COLORADO RIVER, The Green River & The Colorado Plateau; A Selective Bibliography, 1953-2003.


FORDE, Daryll. ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE YUMA INDIANS. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931.


FOSTER, Ethel Twycross. LITTLE TALES OF THE DESERT... Los Angeles: The Author, (1913). 4to, 23pp, 7 full-page color reproductions of paintings by Hernando Villa. Cream wrappers, string-tied, color illus. vignette, ¶ First Edition. One of the tales is entitled “A Visit to Palm Springs.” Not in Edwards.


FOSTER, Ethel Twycross. LITTLE TALES OF THE DESERT... Los Angeles: The Author, (1913). 4to, 23pp, 7 full-page color reproductions of paintings by Hernando Villa. Beige cloth, color illus. vignette. ¶ First Edition. One of the tales is entitled “A Visit to Palm Springs.” Not in Edwards.


FOSTER, Lynne. ADVENTURING IN THE CALIFORNIA DESERT: The Sierra Club Travel Guide to the Great Basin, Mojave, and Colorado Desert Regions of California. Sierra Club, 1997. ¶ First issued in 1987.


FOULKES, Cecelia. MECCA: A California Desert History. Mecca: The Author, (1985). 4to, vi, 104pp, b/w photo-illus. Publ. brick red cloth, lettered in gilt, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by the author, with two of her signed, autograph letters and 1991 newspaper clipping with a story about photographer Susie Keef Smith Fry, to whom the book dedication and letters are addressed.


FOWLER, Harlan. THREE CARAVANS TO YUMA. The Untold Story of Bactrian Camels in Western America. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1980. 8vo, 173pp, frontispiece, 12 illus., 3 maps. Publ. green linen, lettering and vignette in gilt, top edge stained green. ¶ First Edition, limited to 750 copies. These camels played a major role in supplying and serving the major mining ventures throughout the West.


FOX, Maude A. BOTH SIDES OF THE MOUNTAIN. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, (1954). 8vo, 132pp & 8 b/w photographic plates. Red-tan cloth stamped in black, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, signed by Fox on the endpaper. A memoir by one of the first settlers in the Yucaipa Valley who had an intimate knowledge of the events transpiring in the Palm Springs area. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.88-89.


FOX, Theron. EASTERN CALIFORNIA TREASURE HUNTERS GHOST TOWN GUIDE... Includes 1881 Fold-In Map of Eastern California with Glossary of Several Hundred Place Names, 1860 Map of California. Las Vegas: Nevada Publications, (1979). 8vo, 23, (1 ad)pp, frontispiece, b/w photo-illus. throughout, large folding map housed in rear pocket, as issued. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


FRADKIN, Philip L. A RIVER NO MORE: The Colorado River and the West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. ¶ First Edition. “A critical examination of the vast Colorado river literature, historical, hydrological, environmental. The taming of the wild river for flood control and for electrical power generation explains the book’s title. The dams meant the end of the free-flowing river...” Powell, Land of Fact, 12.


FREEMAN, Lewis R. THE COLORADO RIVER, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1923. 8vo, 451pp. Original, blue cloth with gilt title to the front cover and spine. Black and white illustrations. ¶ Farquhar, Colorado River, 113.


FREMONT, Capt. J.C. A REPORT OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN THE YEARS 1841, AND TO OREGON AND NORTH CALIFORNIA, in the Years 1843-44. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1845. 8vo, 693pp, 22 plates, 2 folding maps, 2 page maps, 1 large folding pocket map of Oregon and California. Cloth. ¶ First Edition. Of Fremont’s five expedition the first did not touch California. The second (1843-44) returned from Sutter’s Fort through the San Joaquin Valley and Tehachapi Pass and across the Mohave Desert to the head of CAjon Pass, where it frollowed the Old Spanish Trail to its pass with the Wasatch Mountains. The third expedition (1845) moved past Mono Lake and the Owens Valley, and Walker Pass into San Joaquin Valley. The disastrous fourth expedition headed southwest along the Gila to the Colorado Desert, and to Los Angeles through Warner’s Ranch. On the fifth and last expedition the party fetched up along the Kern River, a ways south of Walker’s Pass. Fremont’s Report was widely read and to a great extend encouraged the westward migration that occurred in the decades to follow. The map, perhaps the greatest single western map, was “...carefully drawn with its locations adequately checked by astronomical observations. And, for the first time upon a published map it showed the entire area west of the Mississippi as seen by a single party” (Wheat, Mapping the Trans-Mississippi West). Cowan p.223. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.89-91. Howes 372. Sabin 25845. Wagner-Camp 115. Wheat, Transmississippi West, 497. Zamorano Eighty 39.


FRISBY, Karen J. IMPERIAL VALLEY: The Greening of a Desert. Occasional Paper No. 9, Imperial Valley College, Desert Museum Society, 1992.


FUNK, John C. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SUPERVISORS 1855-1999.


GABBERT, John Raymond. HISTORY OF RIVERSIDE CITY AND COUNTY. Phoenix: Record Publishing Co., 1935.


GALE, Hoyt S. GEOLOGY OF THE SALINE DEPOSITS, Bristol Dry Lake, San Bernardino County, California. Special Report 13. San Francisco: State of California, Department of Natural Resources, 1951. 4to, 21pp, 2 photo. illus & tables in the text, fold-out map of Bristol Dry Lake Area tipped in. Green printed wrappers. ¶ A geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Hoyt worked on the saline deposits of Bristol Dry Lake since 1916. A broad depression without exterior drainage the Dry Lake lies along the Santa Fe Railroad south of Amboy.


(Gambling). PALM SPRINGS LIFE. August, 1988. August, 1988. ¶ Includes an interesting history of gaming in Palm Springs and Cathedral City.


(Garces, Francisco). COUES, Elliott. ON THE TRAIL OF A SPANISH PIONEER, The Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garces (Missionary Priest) in His Travels Through Sonora, Arizona, and California 1775-1776. New York: 1900. 2 vols, 8vo, xxx, 312; vii, [313]-608pp plus maps (some folding), plates and facsimiles. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. ¶ First Edition, translated from an official copy of the original Spanish manuscript, and edited, with copious critical notes by Coues. Cowan p. 94. Howes C801(aa).


GARCES, Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo. A RECORD OF TRAVELS IN ARIZONA AND CALIFORNIA 1775-1776. A New Translation. San Francisco: Howell Books, 1965. 4to, ix, 116pp, folding maps of Garces and Front’s travels, 5 colored illus, 6 sectional drawings. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Limited to 1250 copies, nicely printed by Lawton Kennedy; introduction and edition by John Galvin. Garces’ journey covered over 2000 miles from Tubac, Casa Grande, across the Colorado River and into California, with a view of the Grand Canyon on his return trip. Unfortunately he leaves scant description of the country over which he traveled. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.91.


(Garden Club of Palm Springs). PALM SPRINGS GARDEN BOOK. Palm Springs: (1957?).


GARLINGTON, Phil. RANCHO COSTA NADA: The Dirt Cheap Desert Homestead. Port Townsend: Loompanics, (2003). 4to, (4), 122, (2)pp, illus. throughout. Wrappers. Fine. ¶ The author tells how he bought ten worthless acres in the California desert for three hundred dollars and for another hundred built a little cabin out of scrap lumber and sand bags. Some ideas he figured out for himself, such as how to be his own utility district. Other ingenious schemes for frugal desert living came from half a dozen fellow homesteaders in the barren waste of the Smoke Tree Valley in Imperial County, California.


GARNER, Bess Adams. WINDOWS IN AN OLD ADOBE... Foreword by J. Gregg Layne. Pomona: Printed by Progress-Bulletin in Collaboration with Saunders Press, Claremont, Calif., 1939. 8vo, (14), 246pp, endpaper maps,16 b/w photo-illus. plates. Publ. beige buckram, lettered in black, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, limited to 2000 copies.


GARRISON, Arlean V. MY CHILDREN’S HOME - A History of Murietta, California. Elsinore: Mayhall Print Shop, 1963


(Geology). SCHMECKEBIER, L.F. [and] C. W. Hayes. UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PUBLICATIONS: Catalogue and Index of the Publications of the Hayden, King, Powell, and Wheeler Surveys, 1904 [with] The State Geological Surveys of the United States, 1911 [with] The Publications of the United States Geological Survey (Not Including Topographic Maps), 1913. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904-11-13. 3 vols, 8vo. Printed wrappers, in portfolio with slipcase, very good. ¶ Key U.S. geological volumes from the early 20th century.


GIFFEN, Helen S., comp. CALIFORNIA MINING TOWN NEWSPAPERS, 1850-1880. San Fernando: J.E. Reynolds, 1954. 8vo, xv, 102pp. ¶ A bibliography indicating the location, frequency and duration of issue, plus details about the owners and editors, their purposes and prowess.


GIFFORD, E[dward] W. THE KAMIA OF THE IMPERIAL VALLEY. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1931. 8vo, viii, 94pp, double-suite map, b/w photo-illus. plate, 4 text illus. Publ. gray wrappers, lettered in black. ¶ Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulleting 97.


GILBERT, Edward M. PANAMINT LEGEND. Los Angeles: Hesperus Press, (1957). 12mo, (8), 16pp, woodcut vignettes throughout. Orig. pictorial wrappers, lettered in black, slight bumps at corners. ¶ First Edition, illustrated by the author.


(Gilman Hot Springs). GILMAN HOT SPRINGS. San Jacinto, California. The Delightful Tourist & Family Health Resort. [N.p. 1934].


GIST, Marion and Evalyn Slack. COACHELLA AREA MOTOR TOURS. Maps by Norton Allen. Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, 1951. 8vo, 36pp, illus. Illus. wrappers.


GLASSCOCK, C.B. [Carl Burgess]. GOLD IN THEM HILLS. New York: Bobbs, Merrill, 8vo, 330pp, frontispiece, photographic plates, endpaper maps. Orig. green cloth, dust jacket. ¶ A good account of the mining fields surrounding Death Valley. The First Edition is stated under coyright notice and should have the Bobbs-Merrill dust jacket as opposed to the A.L. Burt jacket.) Adams, Six-Guns, 839. Edwards, Enduring Desert p. 93. Paher, Nevada, 691: “Probably no newspaperman captured the frenzied [mining] era better than Glasscock, and this is the finest of his six Western books. Written informally and with an eye toward human interest, the book will surely be enjoyed by all who love old Nevada.”


GLASSCOCK, C.B. [Carl Burgess]. HERE’S DEATH VALLEY. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940. 8vo, xiv, 329pp, 22 plates, endpaper maps. ¶ First Edition (so stated on copyright page). Glasscock was a Death Valley pioneer, having published the Chuck-Walla in 1907. Includes descriptions of the old mining towns of Panamint, Darwin, Bullfrog, Rhyolite, Beatty, Greenwater, Skiidoo, the Furnace Creek Ranch, and the borax industry. .“He utilized every opportunity to collect interviews form old-time desert characters... No other book written of this desert excels Here’s Death Valley in readability; few, if any, are more historically sound” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.94).


GLASSCOCK, C.B. & T.E. Kunze. DEATH VALLEY CHUCK-WALLA. Greenwater, 1907. ¶ There were ten issues published semi-monthly in 1907 in the Death Valley mining town of Greenwater (now disappeared). Incredibly scarce - Edwards knew of only six sets. A reprint edited by Hugh Tolford was issued in 1990. Edwards, Enduring Desert p.93.


GLENDINNING, Robert M. Desert Contrasts Illustrated by the Coachella. [In:] Geographical Review, XXXIX, No. 2, April, 1949, pp.221-228.


GLENDINNING, Robert M. The Coachella Valley, California. Some Aspects of Agriculture in a Desert. Reprint from Papers of Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letter, XXXV (1950), pp.173-188. 1951.


GOETZMANN, H. William. ARMY EXPLORATION IN THE AMERICAN WEST 1803-1863. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. 8vo, 509pp, 14 text maps, 5 folding maps in back pocket, 27 illus. Blue cloth, dust-jacket. ¶ First Edition. “those who are less concerned with actual epic experiences than with a cultural dissertation upon the over-all aspect of the survey program will find this well-documented book to their liking” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.94).


GOETZMANN, H.William. EXPLORATION & EMPIRE. The Explorer & the Scientist in the Winning of the American West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. 8vo, green cloth, dust-jacket. ¶ First Edition.


(Golden Age Club of Morongo Valley). GATEWAY TO THE HI-DESERT; A History of Morongo Valley. Morongo Valley:


GOODEN, Arthur Henry. DONOVAN RIDES New York: Macaulay Company, (1937). ¶ A story of range warfare in the deserts of southeastern California, near the Mexican border” (Baird & Greenwood 924).


GOODEN, Arthur Henry. DONOVAN RIDES. New York: Novel Selections, Inc. (A Hillman Publication), [ca. 1950s]. 8vo, 128pp. Illustrated wrappers. ¶ Paperback edition, first issued in 1937. “A story of range warfare in the deserts of southeastern California, near the Mexican border” (Baird & Greenwood 924).


GOWER, Harry P. 50 YEARS IN DEATH VALLEY. Memoirs of a Borax Man. Introduction by James M. Gerstley. San Bernardino: Death Valley’ 49ers, (1970). 8vo, xv, 145pp, color frontis, misc b&w photo-illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Publication No. 9 of the Death Valley’ 49ers.


GRANGER, Byrd H. GRAND CANYON PLACE NAMES... Illustrated by Anne Merriman Peck. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1960. Sm 4to, (2), 26pp, 2 maps. Brick red wrappers, lettered in black with fine vignette illus., slight traces of wear, a nearly fine copy. ¶ First Edition. Over 250 canyons, buttes, springs, peaks, ruins and other points of interest are described including elevation, pronunciation, origin and history of the names.


GRANSON, Eve. DESERT MAVERICKS, Caught and Branded; or, Who’s Who on the Desert. Santa Barbara: Wallace Hebberd, 1928. 8vo, (10), 54pp, illus. throughout. Maroon cloth, lettered in green. ¶ Only Edition of this hysterical collection of illustrated poems on desert animals. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.96.


GRANT, Ulysses S., IV. MIDSUMMER MOTORING TRIP. In: Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, March, 1961. ¶ In the summer of 1914 Grant and his brother set out on a camping trip which took them from San Diego to Big Bear, Banning, Whitewater and “a small settlement called Palm Springs, an oasis directly at the foot of the lofty San Jacinto Mountains,” and on through Indian Wells, Indio, to the Salton Sea. “There follows a fascinating account of the boys’ assorted experiences in this wild desert land. And some of these experiences... were harrowing ones. Grant’s description of of infant Palm Springs and Figtree John are among the highlights of this delightful narrative of early desert travel adventure” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.96-97).


GRAY, A.B. (Edited by L.R. Bailey). REPORT. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1963. 8vo, 240pp, 36 illus., endpaper maps. Cloth. ¶ Limited to 900 copies of this edition of the 1854 railroad survey along the 32nd parallel from the junction of the Gila and Colorado to San Diego or San Pedro, following the Kearny-Cooke emigrant route from Yuma, dipping into Mexico, and up to Warner’s Ranch. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.97-98, finds Gray’s report ridiculous.


GREGORY, Jackson. THE DESERT THOROUGHBRED: A Romance of the California Desert Country. New York: Groset & Dunlap, (1926). 8vo, (6), 331pp, ads. Blue cloth stamped in dark blue. Illustrated dust jacket. ¶ Romance set in the Southern California deserts. Camilla, alone in the desert and freed from the sodden couple she believed her parents, flies across the border to Mexicali. Old Papa Pom befriends her and takes her into his dance hall. She remains ignorant of the true character of her so-called benefactor and his notorious place. Baird & Greenwood 956 (first Scribner’s, 1921.)


GREY, Zane. WANDERER OF THE WASTELAND. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923. 8vo, 419pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of Grey’s novel set in Death Valley.


GRINNEL, Joseph and H.S. Swarth. BIRDS AND MAMMALS OF THE SAN JACINTO AREA. Berkeley: 1913.


GRISSOM, Irene Welch. UNDER DESERT SKIES and Other Verse. Pen and Ink Etchings by L. D. Cram. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, 1956. 8vo, 118pp, 27 line drawings. Green cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Inscribed by the author in 1956. Desert poetry by the Poet Laureate of Idaho from 1923 until 1949 when she moved to California. Third printing, but adding poems from Verse of the New West, 1931, and Desert Wed, 1950, to her Under Desert Skies, first issued in 1935.


GROVER, Nathan C. SURFACE WATER SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES 1923. Part X, The Great Basin. Washington: Unites States Government Printing Office, 1927. 8vo, v, 183pp, 1 b/w illus., charts throughout. Orig. orange wrappers. ¶ Water-Supply Paper 570, prepared in cooperation with the states of Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming.


GUDDE, Erwin G. CALIFORNIA PLACE NAMES. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1969). 8vo, xxi, (4 maps), 416pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Third edition, first issued in 1949 and again in 1960. The definitive work of geographical names of California.


GUINN, J.M. LAS SALINAS (The Salt Pits) Historical Society of Southern California Annual Publication, 1907-08. ¶ A short account of the salt wagons which ran from Los Angeles to the Salton Sink every spring from 1815 through the early 30’s. Their trail led through the San Gorgonio Pass to the salt works near the present site of Redondo where a lake was formed by waters from salty springs. Guinn notes that he gathered his information from an early pioneer but could find no historical records of these desert treks. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.100-101.


GUNTHER, Jane Davies. RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, PLACE NAMES: Their Origins and Their Stories. Riverside: Rubidoux Printing Co., 1984. 8vo, 634pp. Blue cloth. Very good.


HABER, Mel. BEDTIME STORIES OF THE INGLESIDE INN. Northridge: Lord John Press, (1995). ¶ Reprinted Palm Springs: Ingleside Press, 2003


HAENSZEL, Arda; Emily Knight; & Gerald Smith. “Historical Chronology of San Bernardino County” [In:] San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, Summer, 1962. 4to, 36pp. ¶ “Here is a convenient summation of what occurred, and when, in the 190-year span of San Bernardino County history” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.101).


HAFEN, Leroy and Ann W. Hafen. OLD SPANISH TRAIL - Santa Fe to Los Angeles. With Extracts from Contemporary Records and Including Diaries of Antonio Armijo and Orville Pratt. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1954. 8vo, 377, (5)pp, folding map of the Old Spanish Trail bound in at the back. ¶ First Edition, volume of the “The Far West and the Rockies Historical Series” of which this is volume one. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.101-2.


HAGUE, Harlan. THE ROAD TO CALIFORNIA: The Search for a Southern Overland Route 1540-1848. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1978. 8vo, 325pp, frontispiece, 6 b/w plates, 3 maps. Publ. red cloth. ¶ First Edition, with prospectus laid in. American Trails Series XI.


HALE, Edson D. THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO, California, and Its Principal City. San Bernardino: Board of Trade, 1888.


HALL, Harvey M. A BOTANICAL SURVEY OF SAN JACINTO MOUNTAIN. Berkeley: University of California, 1902-03. 8vo, (4), 139, (1 errata)pp, 14 plates, incl. color map of San Jacinto mountain. Blue cloth, bound with another botanical work on funghi as vol. one of the UC publication Botany.


HALL, Harvey Monroe. “A Botanical Survey of San Jacinto Mountain.” [In:] University of California Publications, Botany, S. 1-140. Berkeley: University Press, 1902.


HALL, Sharlot M. CACTUS AND PINE, Songs of the Southwest. 1924. 251pp.


HALL, Thorne. ODYSSEY OF DEATH VALLEY. Santa Barbara: Pacific Coast Odyssey Publications, 1962. 4too, 36pp, 29 photographic illus, double page map of Death Valley. Wrappers with photograph of cracking mud. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by the author. The photographs and cover illustration are by Brett Weston. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.104.


HALL, William Hamilton. IRRIGATION IN CALIFORNIA [SOUTHERN]. The Field, Water-Supply and Works, Organization and Operation in San Diego, San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties. Sacramento: State Office, 1888. 8vo, 672pp, 3 large folding maps, 12 folding plans of dams at end, 18 full-page photogravure illus. of dams and waterworks. Blind-and gold stamped cloth, inner hinges cracked, tape repairs to 1 map, library stamp on title, card pocket.


HALLIDAY, William R. ADVENTURE IS UNDERGROUND. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. 8vo, 18, 206pp, 63 illus, 5 maps. ¶ “The story of the great caves of the West and the men who explore them” includes Mitchell Caverns and the Cave of the Winding Stair in the Mojave near Essex. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.104.


(Hamblin, Jacob). BAILEY, Paul. JACOB HAMBLIN, Buckskin Apostle. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1948. 8vo, 408pp. Cloth.


(Hamblin, Jacob). LITTLE, James A. JACOB HAMBLIN, A NARRATIVE OF HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, As a Frontiersman, Missionary to the Indians and Explorer....(Fifth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series.) Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Juvenile Instructor’s Office, 1881. ¶ First Edition. “A source book for any study of Jacob Hamblin’s exploits on the Colorado River and on both sides of it in the years 1854-1886” (Farquhar 32). Flake 4951. Howes L-383. Paher 1157. A second edition was issued by The Deseret News in 1909.


HAMILTON, Merriam. A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF HEMET AND THE SAN JACINTO VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. Hemet: The Hemet News, 1995.


HANFT, Robert M. SAN DIEGO & ARIZONA. The Impossible Railroad. Glendale: Trans-Anglo, (1984). 4to, 224pp, frontispiece, b&w photo-illus. throughout. Wood-grained cloth, gilt lettered, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition.


HANKINS, Arthur Preston. FALCON OF SQUAW-TOOTH, A Western Story... New York: Chelsea House, (1923). 8vo, 318pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of a novel set at a ranch in the California desert. Baird & Greenwood 1045. Reprinted by Grosset & Dunlap.


HANKS, Henry Garber. MINERAL SPRINGS IN CALIFORNIA. California Mining Bureau 6th Annual Report, pt 1. ¶ Includes short descriptions of 31 thermal spring localities, of which 28 have been developed as resorts.


HANKS, Henry Garber. SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOLOGIST 1880-1882. Sacramento, 1882. 8vo, 226pp, wrappers. ¶ Considerable desert material is found under the section “Mud Volanoes and Colorado Desert.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.104.


HANKS, Henry Garber. THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE MINERALOLGIST. Sacramento: State Office, James J. Ayers, Supt. State Printing, 1883. 8vo, part I - 26pp; part II - 111pp, 20 line drawings in the text. Wrappers. ¶ Part Two is “Report of the Borax Depsoits of California and Nevada. “Pp.29-37 give one of our very earliest printed accounts of Death Valley - an account antedating the Spears by 9 years, the Manly by 11 years. Included are imporant data concerning early Death Valley exploring parties. Dr Darrwin French and his party of 15 men (1860), Dr S. G. George and his group (1860), a party of 8 or 10 Mexican Miners (1861), and the Hugh McCormack party (1861). Borax activities in Death Valley are discussed in some detail with considrable attention given the Eagle Borax Works” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.104-5).


HANNA, Phil Townsend et al. DEATH VALLEY TALES Palm Desert: Desert Magazine Press, 1955 8vo, 59pp, line drawings. Wrappers. ¶ Death Valley ‘49ers Publication No. 3. “True chapters from the drama-crammed past of the Death Valley National Monument” (cover subtitle). Contributions by Hanna, Carl I. Wheat, L. Burr Belden, Arthur Woodward, Ardis Walker, and Mule-Skinning by Gibson. (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.105).


HARPER, Olive. THROUGH DEATH VALLEY. J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Co., 1907. 8vo, 124pp. Wrappers. ¶ “Through Death Valley is a melodramatic novel founded on Joseph Le Brandt’s successful drama of the same name.’ This item is early and scarce; few collectors know of it. Unfortunately, only its age and scarcity commend it” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.106).


HARRINGTON, Mark W. NOTES ON THE CLIMATE AND METEOROLOGY OF DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. Washington: Weather Bureau, 1892. 8vo, 50pp. Printed wrappers. ¶ “This is one of the very items on Death Valley, written by the then Chief of the Weather bureau” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.107).


HARRINGTON, R.E. SOUVENIRS OF THE PALM SPRINGS AREA. Simi: R.E. Harrington, 1962. 8vo, (x), 72pp, photographic-illus. in text. Pictorial fabricoid, spiral binding. ¶ First Edition, printed by Peg Wilson. Harrington, an early resident of the Coachella Valley, had worked as a ranch-hand in the Imperial Valley in 1907. As a boy he took photographs of the region including the flooding of the Salton Sea, the beginning of Palm Springs , Indian life, and desert scenery. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.107.


HARRIS, Benjamin Butler. THE GILA TRAIL. Edited by Richard H. Dillon. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960. 8vo, xv, 175pp, 12 illus, map. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. “Printed for the first time from the original manuscript, this reminiscence rates high among available source records having to do with the early Colorado Desert Crossings. The narrator is one of the relatively few educated emigrant journalists, and history benefits as a result’ (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.107-8). Kurutz: “... ranks as one of the most important (and rare) firsthand accounts describing the Southern Route.”


HAWKINSON, Tamara L. THE DESERT HOME. Flagstaff: Northland Publishing, (2002). 4to, ix, 166pp, color illus. throughout. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ The author divides the American deserts into the Chihuahuan, the Sonoran, and the Mojave, and devote little space to the Colorado Desert and Palm Springs.


HAYES, Benjamin. PIONEER NOTES FROM THE DIARIES OF JUDGE BENJAMIN HAYES, 1849-1875. Los Angeles: Privately Printed 1929. 8vo, 307pp. Navy cloth, gilt. ¶ First Edition. Hayes (1815-1877) arrived in California in 1850 and his perceptive diaries are an important source of information on the early history of Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Bernardino County. . He had a rare sense of appreciation of the Indians of southern California. “...impressive description of Warner’s Ranch, Agua Caliente, and Temecula. The remainder of Pioneer Notes...gives on the of the best pictures anywhere available of early Los Angeles” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.110). Cowan p.271. Edited and published by Marjorie Tisdale Wolcott.


(Health). THREE HEALTH RESORTS. [In:] Sunset Magazine, December, 1899. ¶ Discusses early days in Banning, Beaumont, and Palm Springs; with 2 photogrpahic plates.


HEATH, Erle. SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PROGRESS - Historical Sketch of the Southern Pacific. (San Francisco: Southern Pacific Bureau of News), (1945). 4to, 52, (3 index)pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Pictorial title wrappers. ¶ First Edition of this concise history of the Southern Pacific from its founding through World War II, a revision of a series of articles which first appeared in the Southern Pacific “Bulletin” in 1944.


HEFFERNAN, W.T. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE EARLY HISTORY OF IMPERIAL VALLEY. Calexico: Calexico Chronicle, 1928, 1930.


HEIZER, Robert F. and Adan E. Treganza. MINES AND QUARRIES OF THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA. Ramona: Ballena Press, 1972. ¶ First issued in the California Journal of Mines & Geology


HEMET - SAN JACINTO GENEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. SAN JACINTO VALLEY: Past and Preswent. Dallas: Curtis House, 1978.


HENDERSON, Randall. ON DESERT TRAILS, Today and Yesterday. Designs by Don Louis Perceval. Desert Maps by Norton Allen. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, (1961). 8vo, 357pp including photo. plates & line drawings. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. Includes chapters on the author’s visit to the remains of Ives’ historic steamboat found in the Colorado Delta; the unsolved disappearance of the young Everett Ruess; lost gold mines; Indian ceremonies, etc. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.113-14.


HENDERSON, Randall. SUN, SAND AND SOLITUDE, Vignettes from the Notebook of a Veteran Desert Reporter. Desert Sketches by Norton Allen. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1968. 8vo, 206pp, 8 leaves of color plates. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, with a long inscription from Cyria Henderson, the author’s wife, dated 1970. “Mr Henderson’s Vignettes... are avenues of philosophical approach to desert lands and desert adventuring. He writes in the intimate, informal style of a desert friend and companion with whom one may share pleasant conversation around a camp fire” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.114-15).


HENDERSON, Randall. WILD PALMS OF THE CALIFORNIA DESERT, The Story of Palm Canyon, Andreas Canyon, Fern Canyon & Eagle Canyon. Palm Springs: Desert Magazine, 1951. 8vo, 31pp, b/w photographs & a map. Printed wrappers. ¶ Only Edition. Edwards, enduring Desert, p.115: “Concerning the palm canyons in our deserts, this is the best item I have read. Certainly no one is better qualified to write on the subject of palm oases in Southern California than the distinguished editor of Desert Magazine.”


(Henderson, Randall). McKENNEY, J. Wilson DESERT EDITOR. The Story of Randall Henderson and Palm Desert. Georgetown: Wilmac, 1972. 8vo, (8), 188pp, illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of the biography of the founder and editor of Desert Magazine, written by his early partner in the venture.


HENDERSON, Tracey. IMPERIAL VALLEY. (Calipatria: the Author), (1968). 4to, 240pp, color-illus. endpapers, monochrome photo-illus. throughout. Maroon faux morocco, gilt title. ¶ First Edition, signed by the author at the title.


HERGESHEIMER, Joseph. TROPICAL WINTER. New York: Knopf, 1933. 8vo, 326pp + colophon. ¶ First Edition, large paper issue limited to 210 copies on rag paper signed by the author. Ten short stories set in Palm Springs.


HERTICH, William. PALMS AND CYCADS: Their Culture in Southern California as Observed Chiefly in the Huntington Botanical Gardens. San Marino: 1951.


HERTRICH, William. A GUIDE TO THE DESERT PLANT COLLECTION IN THE HUNTINGTON BOTANICAL GARDENS. San Marino: Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1937. 8vo, 32pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Photo-illus. wrappers, mild soiled. Very good. ¶ First Edition.


HESS, Alan & Andrew Danish. PALM SPRINGS WEEKEND. The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis. San Francisco: Chronicle, (2001). 4to, 180pp, color & b/w photo illus. throughout. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, inscribed by the author.


(Hetzel, Victor Leopold). LIVERNOIS, Joe. HETZEL THE PHOTOGRAPHER, Impressions of Imperial Valley. Fresno: Pioneer Publishing, (1982). Obl. 4to, x, 124pp, b/w photos. throughout. Cloth, gilt.


HICKS, Sharon. THE GREAT MOJAVE DESERT. Barstow 1976,.


(Hiking guides). WHEELOCK, Walt. DESERT PEAKS GUIDE, Part I : Being That Great Ridge Lying East of Owens Valley The Mono, White, Inyo, Coso and Argus Ranges. Mono Peaks; White Range; Inyo Range; Coso and Argus Ranges; Coso Range; Argus Range. WHEELOCK, Walt. DESERT PEAKS GUIDE Part 2: Death Valley Country. Glendale California, La Siesta Press, 1975; Dustjacket No Jacket; Green stapled wraps with brown lettering on front. Nice guidebook to the Death Valley area with information various peaks and valleys; safest routes to take points of egress etc. Well-written and organized. La Siesta Press.


HILL, Joseph John. THE HISTORY OF WARNER’S RANCH AND ITS ENVIRONS. With a Preface by Herbert E. Bolton and Two Etchings by Loren Barton. Los Angeles: Privately Printed [for John Treanor by Young & McCallister], 1927. 8vo, (8), vii-x, 221pp, frontis. portrait, plates included in pagination. ¶ First Edition of the history of one of the most famous ranchos of San Diego County through which passed countless emigrants, military expeditions, miners, and travelers, as well as the Butterfield Stage Line. Farquhar, Colorado River, 11: “A valuable contribution to a subject upon which information is scattered and obscure.” Adams, Herd, 1036. Cowan p.280. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.116. Howes H-486.


HILL, Robert T. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY AND LOS ANGLES EARTHQUAKES. With an Introduction to the Physical Geography of the Region. Report Read in Abstract before the Geological Society of America, Cleveland, Ohio, December 30, 1927. Los Angeles: Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1928. xvi, 232pp, frontispiece, numerous additional black-and-white photographs, 3 folding maps. ¶ First Edition of a lucid explanation of why the ground shakes in Los Angeles.


(Hilton, John). AINSWORTH, Katherine; foreword by James Cagney. THE MAN WHO CAPTURED SUNSHINE. Episodes in the Life of John W. Hilton, Botanist, Gemologist, Zoologist, and Gifted Painter of the Desert Scene, as Garnered During Long Years of Friendship byÉ (Palm Springs): ETC Publications, (1978). 8vo, xiv, 274pp. 8 color plate illus., misc b&w photo-illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First edition, signed by both John Hilton and the author.


HINDS, Norman. EVOLUTION OF THE CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE. San Francisco: Dept of Natural Resources, Division of Mines, 1952. 8vo, 240pp, 115 photo plates, 3 maps charts in pocket. ¶ “Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.117: “This is a desirable book, ably illustrated by an array of interesting plates.”


(Historical Society of Southern California). Annual Publications, 1929, Historical Society of Southern California, Part II, Volume XIV. Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1929


HITCHENS, Bert & Dolores. THE MAN WHO FOLLOWED WOMEN. New York: Doubleday, Doran, for the Crime Club, 1959. 8vo, 192pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of a railroad detective novel set in the California desert. Baird & Greenwood 1205.


HOBBS, Capt. James WILD LIFE IN THE FAR WEST: Personal Adventures of a Border Mountain Man. Comprising Hunting and Trapping Adventures with Kit Carson and Others; Captivity and Life among the Comanches; Services under Doniphan in the War with Mexico, and in the Mexican War Against the French; Desperate Combats with Apaches, Grizzly Bears, etc, etc. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings. Hartford: Wiley, Waterman & Eaton, 1872. 8vo 488pp, chromolithographic frontisportrait + 33 engraved plates and illustrations. ¶ First Edition. Cowan p.286. Flake 4055. Howes H-550 (aa). Paher, Nevada Bib., 873.


HODGE, Carle. ALL ABOUT SAGUAROS. Photography by Arizona Highways Contributors. Phoenix: Arizona Highways Magazine, (1991). 64pp, color illus.


HOGNER, Dorothy Childs. WESTWARD, HIGH, LOW, AND DRY... Illustrations by Nils Hogner. New York: E.P. Dutton, (1938). 8vo, 310pp, map endpapers, frontispiece, 21 b/w plates. Publ. beige pictorial cloth. ¶ First Edition. Includes material on the Coachella and Imperial Valleys and the Algodones Sand Dunes.


HOLLON, William Eugene. THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT THEN AND NOW. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.


HOLMES, Elmer Wallace. HISTORY OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY CALIFORNIA With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present. Los Angeles: Historic Record Company, 1912. 4to, 783pp, illustrated with photographs, portraits. ¶ Only Edition. Although essentially a mug book, Holmes includes early material on the San Gorgonio Pass, Banning, Beaumont, Whitewater and Vallecito. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.119: Not in Howes or Cowan.


HOLT, Edward Henry. DEATH VALLEY AND DESERT. Los Angeles: Printed by Stebb, n.d. 8vo, 44pp, frontispiece. Illus. wrappers. ¶ Third edition, inscribed by the author.


HOLT, Edward Henry. DESERT AND OTHER POEMS... Los Angeles: Printing by Stebb, [n.d., ca. 1936]. 8vo, xxiii, (4)pp. Silver wrappers, lettered in black with black and pink vignette, tied with gold silk cord, spider-web glassine endpapers, inscription at title. ¶ First Edition, with inscription by the author dated “Dec.9 - 36.” A folded leaf with unnumbered pages and misaligned tie perforations, containing the poems “Proud Mortal,” and “Backwash” and a series of aphorisms has been laid-in.


HOLT, Jack [Edward Henry]. DESERT POEMS, Written and Published by... Los Angeles: 1933. 8vo, (13)pp. Bronze wrappers with photo. illustration by Hamelin. ¶ First Edition, six poems, each accompanied by an explanation.


HOLT, William F. MEMOIRS OF A MISSOURIAN. 1975. 8vo, 128pp. Gold-stamped fabricoid. ¶ First Edition. Holt was one of the founders of the Imperial Valley development and it said that Harold Bell Wright based the character of Jefferson Worth in The Winning of Barbara Worth after his friend Holt. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.119-120. Reprinted in facsimile: Holtville: Holtville Tribune, 1975.


HOLTZCLAW, Kenneth. SAN GORGONIO PASS, Images of America. Arcadia Press, The San Gorgonio Pass Historical Society, 2006. 8vo, 128pp, b/w photos throughout. Illus wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Great selection of old and modern photos with descriptive notes, but weak on overall history. Covers San Timoteo Canyon, Calimesa, Beaumont and Banning, Cherry Valley and Oak Glen, the Stewart Ranch, the Morongo Reservation, Cabazon, Whitewater, a briefly Desert Hot Springs.


HOOPER, Lucille. The Cahuilla Indians. [In:] University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 16: 316-379. Berkeley: 1920.


(Hoover Dam). THE STORY OF HOOVER DAM. [Last two volumes titled] THE STORY OF BOULDER DAM. New York: Ingersoll-Rand Company. 1932-36. 5 vols, ¶ Excellent illustrated study of all aspects of the construction of the dam. Farquharm102 notes “These five ‘volumes’ gathered into one make a volume unique among the books of the Colorado River.” Paher, Nevada, 944.


(Hoover Dam). Associated General Contractors... REPORT ON HOOVER DAM PROJECT AND PRESENT STATUS, by a Committee Appointed by the Associated General Contractors of America and the American Engineering Council. [Oakland], December, 1931. 4to, 77pp, illustrated with photographs. Purple suede limp covers, gilt lettering. ¶ First Edition of a report on the first seven months work on the project. Not in Farquhar, predating other Hoover titles therein.


(Hoover Dam). Eddy, Gerald E. (illus). PANORAMIC PERPSECTIVE of the Area Adjacent to Las Vegas - Hoover Dam and Lake Mead National Recreation Area.


(Hoover Dam). GATES, William H., comp. HOOVER DAM; Including the Story of the Turbulent Colorado River. Los Angeles: Published for Hoover Dam Scenic Corporation, Las Vegas, Nevada, by Wetzel Publishing Co., 1932. ¶ Paher, Nevada, 660: “This collection of illustrated stories even comments on mining development of districts far from the Colorado River, such as Aurora, Goldfield and the Comstock Lode. The heart of the document describes the construction of the emerging dam and the river.” Farquhar 105. Not in Edwards.


HOOVER, Mildred Brooke & Hero Eugene Rensch & Ethel Grace Rensch. HISTORIC SPOTS IN CALIFORNIA... Revised by Ruth Teiser, with an Introduction by Robert Glass Cleland. Stanford: Stanford University Press, (1958). 4to, xiv, 411pp, frontispiece map, 3 full-page b/w plates. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Third printing, originally issued in three volumes 1932, 1933, and 1937. Illustrations after early lithographs depicting Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento introduce the three sections.


HORNADAY, William Temple. CAMPFIRES ON DESERT AND LAVA. Two New and Original Maps by Godfrey Sykes, Geographer to the Expedition. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909. 8vo, xix, (1), 366, (4 ads)pp, color frontis, 72 plates, 8 in color, from photos by Daniel Tremblay MacDougal, John M. Phillips and the author, 2 maps by Godfrey Sykes, index. Red cloth, photo onlay, gilt titles. ¶ First Edition. Hornaday and his companions explored the Pinacate region in Northwestern Sonora, just south of Arizon, an area that was unknown as a subject of scientific exploration until this trip. The author treats the natural history and geographical features as well as the hunting of mountain sheep, deer, etc. Three of the photos are of famed law man, Jeff Milton, who guided the trip. Milton, incidentally was quite upset with the claims of Hornaday and company, who went so far as to lend their own names to mountains that Milton had known since the 1880s.



HORNBECK, Robert. ROUBIDOUX’S RANCH IN THE 70’S. Riverside: Press Printing Company, 1913. 8vo, 230pp, frontispiece, 11 full-page illus. Black-stamped cloth, recased with new endpapers, inoffensive library bookplate and stamp. ¶ First Edition. Howes H-644.


HOWE, Edgar E. & Wilbur J. Hall. STORY OF THE FIRST DECADE IN IMPERIAL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. Edgar F. Howe & Sons, 1910. 8vo, 291pp, photo illus. throughout. Half red pebbled leather, buckram boards with gilt title. ¶ First Edition of the earliest published history of the Imperial Valley during this formative period. Desert bibliographer E.I. Edwards notes “The material made available by this early account is of primary importance to the student of desert history. The item is definitely a collector’s must” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.120). Not in Howes.


HOWES, Paul Griswold. THE GIANT CACTUS FOREST AND ITS WORLD; A Brief Biology of the Giant Cactus Forest of Our American Southwest. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1954.


HOYT, Franklyn. A HISTORY OF THE DESERT REGION OF RIVERSIDE COUNTY, from 1540 to the Completion of the Railroad to Yuma in 1877. [Los Angeles]: University of Southern California, 1948. 4to, 93ff, printed verso only, folding map at rear. ¶ Photo-reprint of Hoyt’s M.A. thesis. Hoyt later contributed to Desert Magazine an excellent article of Blake and the Railroad Survey.


HUBBARD, Doni. FAVORITE TRAILS OF DESERT RIDERS... Foreword by Frank M. Bogert, Illustrations by Deborah Young, and Ellen Pofcher. (Redwood City: Hoofprints), (1991). Obl. 8vo, (2), xiv, 239pp, b/w and color photo-illus. and maps throughout. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


HUBBARD, Paul et al. BALLARAT 1897 - 1917 Facts and Folkore. Lancaster: Paul B & Arline Hubbard, 1965. 8vo, 98pp. Wrappers. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.120-21: “A fascinating book to read in this saga of old Ballarat, and a prideful addition to any desert library.”


HUDSON, Tom. LAKE ELSINORE VALLEY, Its Story 1776-1977. Lake Elsinore: Laguna House, (1978). 8vo, 185pp, illus. endpapers. Cloth. Fine. ¶ First Edition, signed by author. Published for the Lake Elsinore Valley Bicentennial Commission, with a Lake Elsinore postcard and and Frontier Days Rodeo ticket.


HUFFORD, D.A. DEATH VALLEY; Swamper Ike’s Traditional Lore: Why, When, How? Los Angeles: D.A. Hufford..., 1902. 16mo, 43, (1)pp, frontisportrait, 16 hors-texte photo-illus. plates, b/w illus. Orig. green wrappers, lettered in black, with pictorial border. ¶ Second edition. “An interesting research into the realities and possibilities of the Desert region, in which there is a mystery and a fascination about everything appertaining to the long stretch of Desert in which lies Death Valley...” (wrapper). “An early and peculiar account by one who claims to have journeyed into Death Valley shortly after the turn of the century. My personal opinion is that its contents border on the apocryphal. Some of the weird incidents described would impress one as being in the nature of desert aberrations” (Edward, Enduring Desert, p.122).


HUGHES, Tom. HISTORY OF BANNING AND SAN GORGONIO PASS, in Two Parts. Banning: Banning Record Print, (1938). ¶ An early account of happenings in and around the San Gorgonio Pass area. “This book, now difficult to locate, assembles important historical material regarding a region about which relatively little has been written. Part I is a chronological listing of important historic events during the period extending from 1774 to 1938; Part 2 is given over mainly to interesting stories of the region, and to biographical sketches of the early pioneers” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.122).


HUNDLEY, Norris. THE GREAT THIRST: Californians and Water 1770s - 1990s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.


HUNT, John J. WATERS OF COMFORT. The Story of Desert Hot Springs California. Desert Hot Springs: Little Morongo Press, 1997. 4to, (6), 275pp, b/w illus. White wrappers, lettered in red and blue, illus. vignette, black paper backstrip. ¶ First Edition of the only history of the town near Palm Spring where an amazing aquifer of hot mineral waters was found.


(HUNTER, William). ROBROCK, David P. (ed.). MISSOURI ’49er: The Journal of William W. Hunter on the Southern Gold Trail... Published in Cooperation with the Historical Society of New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. 8vo, xxviii, (2), 299pp, 4 photo-illus. plates of the journal, 1 map. Beige cloth, spine lettered in red, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of this first-hand account of the overland route by way of Santa Fe and the Gila River in 1849.


HUSSEEY, S.E. & Homer H. Boelter (photography). DESERT THEMATIC PORTRAIT. Los Angeles: Holmer Boelter, 1945. 28pp, with 26 full-page photographs of the desert. ¶ First Edition. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.124.


(Idyllwild). CALIFORNIA’S ALPS, The Idyllwild Sanatorium. 8vo, 21pp.


(Imperial County). IMPERIAL COUNTY, California: America’s Winter Garden. El Centro: Imperial County Board of Trade, [ca. 1934]. 9 x 4 inch, 6 panel fold-out brochure, with 5 photographic illustrations and a 4-panel map. Very slightly edgeworn. Good.



(Imperial County). THE VALLEY IMPERIAL. Second Historical Volume, Imperial Valley Pioneers. January, 1958. 8vo, 48pp. inc. photographic illus. Printed wrappers.


(Imperial County). HARRIS, Elizabeth. THE VALLEY IMPERIAL. First Annual Historical Volume, Imperial Valley Pioneers. January, 1956. 8vo, 72pp. inc. photographic illus. Printed wrappers. ¶ Edited and party written by Elizabeth Harris, Historian of the Imperial Valley Pioneers. Includes chapters on valley pioneers; the plank road; location of Butterfield Stage Trail; gemstones; the Salton Sea. The Imperial Valley Pioneers was formed in 1928. A Second Historical Volume was issued in 1958. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.125.


(Imperial Valley). “The Desert Translated.” [In:] Land of Sunshine. October, 1901. Pp.290-292, with 3 half-tone photographs, in whole issue. ¶ Early vision of the potential of the Imperial Valley and Colorado Delta written in the form of a newpaper article from 2001 suggesting it will have the densest population in California. The 3 phtographs show the virgin desert, a sorghum crop, and a view of the Imperial Canal.


(Imperial Valley). Agricultural Association of California CALIFORNIA MID-WINTER FAIR - Imperial Valley 1949. Imperial Valley: Agri. Assc. Calif., 1949. 8vo, 48pp,


(Indian Wells). INDIAN WELLS VALLEY HANDBOOK. Inyokern-China Lake Branch of the American Association of University Women, 1948. 8vo, 78pp. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition. “Early history, plant life, birds and animals, planned sight-seeing trips, first-aid treatments, and other associated subjects are discussed. This book offers information concerning a desert region about which relatively little has been written” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.126). Subsequent editions appeared in 1953, 1960, and 1967.


INGERSOLL, Luther A. CENTURY ANNALS OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY 1769-1904. Prefaced with a Brief History to the State of California; Supplemented with an Encyclopedia of Local Biography and Embellished with Views of Historic Subjects and Portraits of many of its Representative People. Los Angeles: Ingersoll, 1904. 587pp. Cloth. ¶ First Edition, although largely a mug book, it contains occasional references to the Colorado and Mojave deserts. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.125.


(Irrigation). REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE ON THE IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION OF ARID LANDS. REPORT OF COMMITTEE AND VIEWS OF THE MINORITY. [with:] ...Vol. I. - THE NORTHWEST. [with:] ...Vol. II. - THE GREAT BASIN REGION AND CALIFORNIA. [with:] ...Vol. III. - ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION AND GREAT PLAINS. [with:] ...Vol. IV. - STATEMENTS by Director Powell and Other Officers of the U.S. Geological Survey. Consular Reports General Report on Irrigation in the United States. Miscellaneous Papers. [with:] ...IRRIGATION IN THE UNITED STATES. By Richard J. Hinton. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890. 6 parts bound in 4 vols. tables, plates, & numerous maps. ¶ The best and most detailed examination of water use in the American West in the years before the advent of federal programs. As the West was settled and farmed in the 19th century, irrigation and water use became the pressing issue, affecting questions of economics, agriculture, and planning. These reports print the findings of the Senate Special Committee on Irrigation and Arid lands, headed by Senator William Stewart of Nevada. The committee conducted hundreds of interviews with farmers, engineers, businessmen, and politicians, printing the transcripts of the interviews, along with maps, plates, and tables describing the region. The great explorer, John Wesley Powell, who was head of the U.S. Geological Survey and also accompanied the committee for much of its work, gave lengthy testimony which is printed here, as is that of engineer Clarence E. Dutton, and others. Powell and others had argued that much of the West was too arid for settlement, and that expansion of population should place close attention to the renewability of resources. Ultimately, the committee would end funding for Powell’s irrigation surveys and proceed to open up the land to settlement and speculation. Who was right is a question that is now reaching a crisis, as issues of water and land use reach a breaking point throughout these arid lands. Each volume is helpfully indexed.


IVES, Joseph Christmas. REPORT UPON THE COLORADO RIVER OF THE WEST, Explored in 1857 and 1858. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1861. (8), 131, 14, 154, 30, 6, 31, (1)appendix, numerous text illus, frontispiece, 17 full-page b/w illus. (one tinted), two large folding maps and one full-page map, 8 folding panoramic views and 7 color lithographic illus. ¶ First Edition of the first government publication on the exploration of the Colorado River. “...the report is one of the most desirable books in the Colorado River field, for it is the first that deals specifically with the river itself. Moreover, the illustrations are remarkable: those from Mollhausen’s sketches are often admirable; Egloffstein’s... are invariably deplorable; two from photographs represent perhaps the first use of the camera in Arizona, certianly on the Colorado River. ... Ives and his staff added immensely to knowledge of the lower canyons, especially those now occupied by Hoover Dam and Lake Mead” (Farquahr). Howes I-92. Farquhar, The Colorado River, 21. Flake 4287. Paher, Nevada, 952. Wagner-Camp 375. Sabin 35308. Wheat, Transmississippi West, 941.


JACKSON, Helen Hunt & Abbot Kinney. REPORT ON THE MISSION INDIANS IN 1883. Boston: Press of Stanley and Usher, 1887. Also cited as Report on the Condition and Needs of the Mission Indians.


JAEGER, Edmund. THE CALIFORNIA DESERTS, A Visitor’s Handbook to the Mohave and Colorado Deserts. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1933. 8vo, x, 209pp, illus in text. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition of one of the best reference books on California’s entire desert areas. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.127. The work was revised in 1938.


JAEGER, Edmund C. A NATURALIST’S DEATH VALLEY. Pen Sketches by Dr. Edmund C. Jaeger [and] Morris Van Dame. Photographs by M. Curtis Armstrong. Death Valley’ 49ers, 1957. 8vo, 68pp including photos & line drawings. Printed wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Publication No. 5. Inscribed by the author.


JAEGER, Edmund C. DESERT WILD FLOWERS. Stanford: Stanford University Press, (1940). 8vo, xii, 322pp, frontispiece, 764 illus. Beige cloth, green lettered and illus., dust jacket, illus. endpapers. ¶ First Edition. The most complete work published on the flora of the Southwestern American deserts and a complete guide to the flowers, trees, and shrubs of the three desert parks: Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and Borego State Park. Some 764 separate species of desert flowers are described, each illustrated by a pen sketch.


JAEGER, Edmund C. OUR DESERT NEIGHBORS. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1950. ¶ “We consider this the very best book available on the subject. It replaces the author’s Denizens of the Desert - in preference, that is” (Edwards, Oases, p.91).


JAHNS, Richard, ed. GEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Bulletin 170. Vols. 1 & 2. San Francisco: Dept of Natural Resources, Dept of Mines, 1954. 2 vols, obl. text volume together with portfolio with Geologic Guides 1 through 5, 34 individual folding maps, and 10 additional folding charts. ¶ “The work is concerned largely with a study of California desert regions. Its photographic plates are of outstanding merit; particularly the aerial views. Though a bit technical in the scope of its coverage, the text is not without its appeal to the lay reader” (Edwards,Enduring Desert, p.67).


JAMES, G.F. The Legend of Tahquitch and Algoot. [In:] Journal of American Folklore, XVI, 153-159. 1903.


JAMES, George Wharton. ARIZONA: The Wonderland. Boston: The Page Company, 1917. 8vo, xxiv, 478pp, folding map, 60 full-page illus (12 in color). Gold-stamped cloth with applied illus. on front cover, tips slightly bumped. ¶ First Edition. Adams, Herd, 1147.


JAMES, George Wharton. HEROES OF CALIFORNIA. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1910. ¶ First Edition. Chapter 38 is about the reclamation of the Salton Sink by Wozencraft, Rockwood and Chaffey. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.129.


JAMES, George Wharton. IN AND AROUND THE GRAND CANYON: The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona. Boston Little, Brown and Company, 1900. ¶ “James spent a great deal of time at the Grand Canyon over a number of years and visited many out of the way spots. Because so much of this book records personal experiences it has special historical value and is in many respects one of the best of the Grand Canyon books” (Farquahar A.64.c.2).


JAMES, George Wharton. OLD MISSIONS AND MISSION INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles: B.R. Baumgardt, 1895. ¶ First Edition. “An early historical production of this popular writer” (Cowan (1914) p.120).


JAMES, George Wharton. THE INDIANS OF THE PAINTED DESERT REGION: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1904. 8vo, xxi, 268pp, 3 pages of ads and numerous pages of photographic illus. Pictorial cloth, light wear to extremities.


JAMES, George Wharton. THE TRAVELERS’ HANDBOOK TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Pasadena: George Wharton James, 1904. Sm. 8vo, 507pp, line drawings throughout. Red cloth. Very good copy. ¶ First Edition. Ch. 25 - ‘From the Colorado River to the Pacific Ocean on the Southern Pacific’ - reflects material on the desert towns of Ogilby, Old Beach, Imperial, Brawley, Calexico, Eastside, Salton, Volcano Springs, Indio, Palm Springs, Banning and Beaumont. Ch. 27 has an early account of Palmdale, Lancaster, Rosamond, and the Mohave Desert; Ch. 32 touches on Needles, Calico, Daggett, Barstow, Cajon, etc, with some comment on Death Valley. Edwards p.130.


JAMES, George Wharton. THROUGH RAMONA’S COUNTRY. Boston: Little Brown, 1908.


JAMES, George Wharton. TOURISTS’ GUIDE TO SOUTH CALIFORNIA. ¶ First Edition. James tells of the Salton Sea Basin, Indio, Seven Palms, Palm Springs, Banning and Beaumont; and the Mojave from Needles to San Bernardino. “The historical value of this book must not be minimized. Few people know the curious little Tourists’ Guide. It represents a prodigious undertaking, and a tremendous expenditure of effort. James includes early-day descriptions of towns and historical events that are not ordinarily available. In 1904 the published volume Traveler’s Handbook to Southern California repeats much of the material contained in the Tourists’ Guide. The Handbook, however, lacks many of the interesting and early photographic plates appearing in the earlier book.” Edwards p.130.


JAMES, George Wharton. WONDERS OF THE COLORADO DESERT (Southern California), Its Rivers and its Mountains, its Canyons and its Springs, its Life and its History, Pictured and Described. Including an Account of a Recent Journey made down the Overflow of the Colorado River to the Mysterious Salton Sea. With Upwards of Three-Hundred Pen-and-Ink Sketches from Nature by Carl Eytel. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1906. 2 vols, 8vo, xliv, 270; xiv, 271-547, (1), (2 ads)pp, 33 full page plates (one in color). Publisher’s quarter gray cloth over blue cloth, central gilt vignettes of an oasis, gilt spine lettering. ¶ First Edition. “This item remains, after all these years, the classic and definitive account of the Colorado desert. Here is a closely-integrated presentation of the desert’s history, its inhabitants, its plant and animal life, its physical characteristics, its every imaginable facet of interest. In the quality of its realistic approach to the subjects covered, in the appeal of its versatility, and in the extensiveness of its scope, James’ superlative effort stands majestically alone. No other item on the Colorado desert, with the possible exception of J. Smeaton Chase’s California Desert Trails, can even remotely approach it” (Edwards). The pen-and-ink drawings by Palm Springs artist Carl Eytel add immensely to the book’s appeal. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.130/1. Howes J44. Powell, Land of Fact, 14.


JAMES, George Wharton. WONDERS OF THE COLORADO DESERT (Southern California), Its Rivers and its Mountains, its Canyons and its Springs, its Life and its History, Pictured and Described. Including an Account of a Recent Journey made down the Overflow of the Colorado River to the Mysterious Salton Sea. With Upwards of Three-Hundred Pen-and-Ink Sketches from Nature by Carl Eytel. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. 2 vols, 8vo, xliv, 270; xiv, 271-547, (2 ads)pp, 33 full page plates (one in color). Publisher’s blue cloth.


JAMES, George Wharton. WONDERS OF THE COLORADO DESERT (Southern California), Its Rivers and its Mountains, its Canyons and its Springs, its Life and its History, Pictured and Described. Including an Account of a Recent Journey made down the Overflow of the Colorado River to the Mysterious Salton Sea. With Upwards of Three-Hundred Pen-and-Ink Sketches from Nature by Carl Eytel. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company 1911. 8vo, L, 547pp, color frontispiece, line drawings by Eytel throughout, large folding map of the Colorado Desert. Blue cloth, gilt. ¶ Third edition, first one volume issue, first appearance of the map.


JAMES, George Wharton. WONDERS OF THE COLORADO DESERT (Southern California). Its Rivers and Its Mountains, Its Canyons and Its Springs, Its Life and Its History, Pictured and Described. Including an Account of a Recent Journey made down the Overflow of the Colorado River to the Mysterious Salton Sea. With Upwards of Three-Hundred Pen-and-Ink Sketches from Nature by Carl Eytel. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1911. 8vo, xlvix, 547pp, illustrations throughout the text, b/w plates. Orig. red cloth, gilt. ¶ Third edition, British issue of the first one-volume version; with a large folding “Map of the Colorado Desert Showing main routes taken by George Wharton James,” 1906.


(James, George Wharton). LARSON, Roger K. CONTROVERSIAL JAMES, An Essay on the Life and Work of George Wharton James. San Francisco Book Club of California, 1991. 4to, 99pp. Cloth, slipcase, prospectus. ¶ One of 400 copies printed at the Yolla Bolly Press, signed by the author. With an annotated bibliography.


JAMES, George Wharton, Paul B. Popenoe, [and] Ralph D. Cornell. DATE CULTURE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles: Out West, [n.d., ca. 1917]. 8vo, 33, (3 ads)pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Orig. tan wrappers, lettered and bordered in brown. ¶ First Edition of an important and early text on the introduction of dates to Southern California.


JAMES, Harry Clebourne. THE CAHUILLA INDIANS; The Men Called Master. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, (1960). 8vo, 185pp incl. plates & illus. by Don Perceval. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, 1250 copies printed. James brilliantly reconstructed the circumstances of life among the Cahuilla prior to their contact with alien cultures. He talked at length with Cahuilla of different generations to learn more about their culture and history and destroys many of the myths that have accumulated around such prominent Cahuilla leaders in California history as Juan Antonio, Antonio Garra, Ramona, and Fig Tree John. “The story of Southern California’s Cahuilla Indians is authentically told in this book. Mr James, well qualified to write as an authority on the subject, has assembled a vast reservoir of infomraiton in this definitive treatise” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, 132).


JAMES, Harry Clebourne. WESTERN CAMPFIRES; Reminiscences of Western Camping over Half a Century. Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1973. ¶ Born in Ottawa in 1896, James came to Hollywood after the War where he established a club for boys interested in the out-doors; his club expanded into The Trailfinders and for 25 years he was the headmaster of the The Trailfinders School for Boys.


JAMES, T.E. and R.H. Stretch. U.S. GOVERNMENT BULLETIN. Senate Report of 43rd Congress. Reports of J.E. James and Richard H. Stretch. March 19, 1874. ¶ “This article toys with the puerile idea of ‘turning the waters of the Gulf of Californiaornia into the Colorado Desert and Death Valley.’ This is on the earliestt printed accounts of Death Valley” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p132).


JENKINS, Olaf P., (ed.) IRON RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA... San Francisco: Dept of Natural Resources, Division of Mines, 1948. 8vo, xii, 304pp, 68 figures, 25 folding maps. Orig. brown cloth stamped in black. ¶ Bulletin No. 129, with chapters on Eagle Mountain deposits in Riverside County, Iron Mountain, Old Dad Mountain, Cave Canyon, Iron King and other iron deposits in the San Bernardino County deserts, plus additional chapter on Northern California deposits.


JENKINSON, Michael. LAND OF CLEAR LIGHT. Illustrated by Karl Kernberger. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1977.


JENSEN, Thomas A. PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA: Its Evolution and Functions. [N.p.]: The Author, 1954. 4to, xii, 221ff, photocopy typescript, b/w photo-illus. and maps (1 folding) throughout. Yellow wrappers. ¶ Jensen’s master’s thesis submitted to the Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, August, 1954.


JOHNS, Howard. PALM SPRINGS CONFIDENTIAL. Playground of the Stars. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 2004. 4to, xviii, 299pp, misc. b&w photo-illus. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Printing.


JOHNSON, Beverly et al. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RESOURCES MATERIALS RELATING TO IMPERIAL VALLEY. N.p.: Imperial County Schools, 1964. 8vo, 18pp.


JOHNSON, Robert Neil. CALIFORNIA-NEVADA GHOST TOWN ATLAS. Susanville: Cy Johnson & Son, 1974. 8vo, 48pp, maps and illus. throughout. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ Eighth edition.


JOHNSTON, Francis J. “San Gorgonio Pass, Forgotten Route of the Californios.” [In:] Journal of the West, Vol. VIII, No. 1, January, 1969.


JOHNSTON, Francis J. “Stagecoach Travel through the San Gorgonio Pass.” [In:] Journal of the West, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp.616-635. October, 1972. Whole issue in wrappers.


JOHNSTON, Francis J. THE BRADSHAW TRAIL: Narrative and Notes. Riverside: Historical Commission Press, 1977. ¶ First Edition. With a fold-out map of Riverside County depicting the Trail’s actual path and many of the landmarks along it. The Appendix contains tables noting the names and modern location of camps, springs, and stations.


JOHNSTON, Francis J. THE BRADSHAW TRAIL... Revised Edition. Riverside Historical Commission Press, (1987). 8vo, vi, (8), 228pp, 8 b/w plates, 1 folding map. Tan wrappers, lettered in black with illus. vignette. ¶ Revised edition.


JOHNSTON, Frank. THE SERRANO INDIANS OF SOUTHERN CALFORNIA. Banning: Malki Museum Press, 1965. ¶ Reprinted 1983 and 1980.


JONAS, Charles H. THE WALLED OASIS OF BISKRA. Los Angeles: Hoag & Ford, (1928). ¶ A real estate brochure promoting a project in an oasis North of Indio, near Thousand Palms. The idea was to construct a walled shopping and hotel center resembling an Algerian oasis. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.137-38.


(Joshua Tree). THE TOWN OF JOSHUA TREE. (Los Angeles: Joshua Tree Townsite Co.,) [n.d., ca. 1946]. 8vo, 16pp, b/w photo- and text illus. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ Nicely printed promotional brochure. “This little advertising brochure is a beautiful item and, in its relation to the High Desert area, both an early and a scarce one... to us old timers out here on the High Desert, this coveted little item - so very attractively designed - holds nostalgic meaning. There is a photograph of Joshua Tree in 1944; another taken two years later. The second section of the book is given over to a description, with photographs, of the Joshua Tree National Monument. This is one of those rare litte items that would afford pride and pleasure in mere possession, even though there were no other reason apparent to justify ownership (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.139).


(Julian). HISTORY OF JULIAN. (Julian: Julian Historical Society), (1969). 12mo, (2), 66pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Illus. title wrappers. ¶ First Edition.


KEELER, Charles A. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Los Angeles: Passenger Dept., Santa Fe Route, 1899. 8vo, 141pp, illus. by Louise M. Keeler. Wrappers. ¶ The first two chapters - “The Desert” and “San Bernardino Valley” (pp.11-34) - contian early desert material. Charles Augustus Keeler (1871-1937) was a noted California poet, scientist, architect, and religious innovator, whose 1904 “A SImple Home” became a manifesto for the Arts & Crafts movement. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.139.


KELLING, Patricia Jernigan, ed. ONCE UPON A DESERT, A Bicentennial Project. Barstow: Mojave River Valley Museum Assoc., (1994). 4to, vii, 281pp, inc. photographic plates. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Third printing (first 1976). A collection of articles, stories and personal recollections concerning the history of the Mojave River Valley and the high desert communities of Adelanto, Barstow, Needles, and Victorville, in San Bernardino County.


KELLY, Bill. TREASURE TRAILS AND BURIED BANDIT BOOTY: True Accounts of Buried Outlaw Swag in Riverside County California Plus Clues to Hidden Loot Throughout the United States. Westport: Stagecoach Publishing, 1993.


KELLY, Charles. SALT DESERT TRAILS: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California.


KENNAN, George. THE SALTON SEA, An Account of Harriman’s Fight with the Colorado River. New York: Macmillan, 1917. 8vo, (10), 106 (+ads), photo. illus & plans. Blue cloth, gilt. ¶ First Edition. “The book ably presents the role of the Southern Pacific in the memorable fight against the Colorado River break in 1906-07. The content of the book is sectionalized as follows: The Salton Sink, The Creation of the Oasis, The Runaway River, The Saving of the Valley, The Recompense” (Edwards). Cowan p.327. Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.142-43; Desert Voices p.98.


KIDWELL, Art. IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALMS: Across the Years in Twentynine Palms. Twentynine Palms: Desert Moon Press, (1986). 2 vols, 8vo, 260, (2); 263-546pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout. Publ. photo-illus. wrappers, lettered in white. ¶ First Edition.


(Salton Sea). “New Inland Sea.” [In:] National Geographic, Vol. 18, July, 1907. ¶ This is “one of the best descriptive accounts of the great break in the Colorado that caused the formation of our present Salton Sea” (Edwards, Oases, p.88). Enduring Desert, p.65.


(Salton Sea). SALTON SEA ATLAS. Redlands: Redlands Institute, 2002. Folio, unpaginated, color map, charts, & illus. throughout. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ “The Salton Sea Atlas is the benchmark reference for the Sea that brings together much of what is known about this complex and controversial environment. Groundbreaking in its visual presentation of the surprisingly interwoven story, the Atlas is a comprehensive scientific, historical, and physical representation of the unique region. Using cutting-edge geographic information systems technology, vast amounts of data were transformed into multi-layered, multi-themed maps that are as visually compelling as they are revelatory of the hidden nature of the Sea and its landscape” (publisher’s note).


(Salton Sea). THE DESERT BARNACLE; The Voice of the Salton Sink. Vol. 1, No. 1. Mecca: N.p., 1945. 20 x 14 inches, 6 page newspaper, folded, 1 inch tear to front page.


(Salton Sea). THE SALTON SEA: California’s Overlooked Treasure. Indio: Coachella Valley Historical Society, 1995.


(Salton Sea Authority). PROCEEDINGS OF THE SALTON SEA SYMPOSIUM, January 13, 1994. Indian Wells: Salton Sea Authority, 1994. Sm. 4to, ¶ A collection of papers on environmental issues including wildlife hazards and water purity.


(Salton Sea Symposium). Douglas A. Barnum et al. THE SALTON SEA. Proceedings of the Salton Sea Symposium, Held in Desert Hot Springs, California, 13-14 January 2000. Desert Hot Springs, (2000). xii, 306 pp, num. figs, paperbound. Hydrobiologia vol. 473 ¶ Also issued by: Kluwer Academic Publishing in 2002


(San Bernardino). HISTORICAL LANDMARKS OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. Redlands: San Bernardino County Museum, 1980.


San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, California. Redlands: Citrograph Book Press, 1903.


(San Bernardino History). A TOUR OF HISTORIC SAN BERNARDINO. Documented by the City of San Bernardino Bicentennial Commission, 1976. 8vo, 48pp, 12 b/w photo-illus., 2 maps. Red title wrappers, lettered in black. ¶ First Edition. This pamphlet provides descriptions of 37 historic sites which are conveniently located on detailed double-suite map.


(San Bernardino History). ODYSSEY. Published Quarterly... San Bernardino: City of San Bernardino Historical & Pioneer Society, January-February-March, 1987. 4to, 16pp, b/w illus. throughout. Stapled wrappers. ¶ Volume 9, Number 1 of this quarterly, with an article, “Bagdad and the Orange Blossom Mine” by Alan Hensher.


(San Bernardino - San Diego). ELLIOTT, Wallace W. HISTORY OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, California, with Illustrations Descriptive of its Scenery, Farms, Residences, Public Buildings, Factories, Hotels, Business Houses, Schools, Churches, Etc., From Original Drawings, Including Biographical Sketches. San Francisco: Wallace W. Elliott & Co., 1883. 4to, 204pp, lithographic plates throughout, maps (including full-page map of California in color) & woodcut illus. in the text. Orig. brown cloth titled in gilt. ¶ First Edition. With marvelous lithographs of ranches, homes, orchards, vineyards, breweries, a view of Arrowhead Hot Springs, and double page birds-eye view of the Redlands Colony. Pages 140-204 are devoted to San Diego county, with views of ranches in Temecula, Julian, etc, and a view of the press room of the Union Newspaper. Cowan p.551. References are made to Death Valley, San Gorgonio Pass, the Colorado Desert, Temecula Hot Springs, Fort Yuma, Mormon Settlement, Calico, etc. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.76. The Riverside Museum Press issued a reprint in 1965 with an Introduction by Harry Lawton, who points out the classic importance of this volume to local history collectors.


SANDOS, James A. and Larry E. Burgess. THE HUNT FOR WILLIE BOY. Indian-Hating & Popular Culture Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1994). 8vo, xviii, 182pp, b/w illus. Publ. aqua cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. “Attempting to recover the events and motivation of Willie Boy\'s real story from the realm of popular, Indian-hating culture,” the authors draw chiefly upon previously unheard native American voices in this account of the infamous 1909 murders and manhunt.


(Santa Fe Trail). TO CALIFORNIA OVER THE SANTA FE TRAIL... Illustrations by J.T. McCutcheon, Carl N. Werntz, John W. Norton and James Allen McCracken. Chicago: Passenger Department, (Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway System), 1914. Sm 4to, 232pp, b/w text illus. (many full-page) throughout, route map. Publ. pictorial ochre wrappers. ¶ Revised edition.


SAROYAN, Aram. RANCHO MIRAGE: An American Tragedy of Manners, Madness and Murder. New York: Barricade Books, 1993. 8vo, 366pp. Cloth, dust jacket.


SAUBEL, Katherine Siva and Anne Galloway. I’ISNIYATAM (DESIGNS). A Cahuilla Word Book. Banning: Malki Museum Press, (1977). 8vo, 32pp, b/w illus. throughout. Tan wrappers, lettered in black with illus. vignette. ¶ First Edition.


SAUNDERS, Charles Francis. THE SOUTHERN SIERRAS OF CALIFORNIA. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1923. ¶ First Edition of Saunders’ book on the Sierra Madre, now know as the San Gabriel range. After an eye-opening visit to the Palm Spring deserts, Saunders, a Philadelphia businessman, moved to Pasadena in 1906. Reprinted: Big Santa Anita Historical Society 1984.


SAUNDERS, Charles Francis. UNDER THE SKY IN CALIFORNIA. New York: McBride, Nast, 1913. 8vo, (14), 299pp, photographic plates throughout. Decoratively stamped cloth. Joints cracked, otherwise very good. ¶ First Edition. The first chapters deal with the California deserts: “The Mohave,” “The Colorado Deserts,” “In Palm Canyon,” and “Spring Flowers of the Desert.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.218.


SAUNDERS, Charles Francis. UNDER THE SKY IN CALIFORNIA. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1931. 8vo, (14), 299pp, 4 full-page photo-illus. plates as endpapers (each with 2 photos). Publ. blue cloth, blind-stamped vignette, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket. ¶ Fourth printing, first published in 1913. The first chapters have to do with the California deserts, include “The Mohave,”, “The Colorado Deserts,” “In Palm Canyon,” and “Spring Flowers of the Desert.” Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.218.


(SBC Museum Publication Index). McCARTHY, Daniel F. (ed.). SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION PUBLICATIONS. Quarterly Volumes 1-50 (1953-2003). Occasional Papers No.1. Mojave Desert Quaternary Research Center Special Publications 1989-1994. (Redlands): San Bernardino County Museum Association, 2003. 8vo, 168pp. Illus. wrappers. ¶ Index to SBC Museum Association publications.


SCHMECKEBIER, L. CATALOGUE AND INDEX OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE HAYDEN, KING, POWELL, AND WHEELER SURVEYSÉ Portland: Northwest Books, 1970. 8vo, 208pp. Orig. blue cloth. Small paint-splotch to spine, very good. ¶ Reprint of the 1904 edition. Includes annual reports, monographs, bulletins, maps, atlases, and other materials by the great explorers.


SCHUILING, Walter. SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Land of Contrasts. Woodlands Hills: Windsor Publications, 1984.


SCHWACOFER, Leonard. OUT OF THE GOLDEN WEST, Vol. 1, Tales from the Desert. Anaheim: Mother Colony Press, (1943). 12mo, 54pp, line drawings & photos in text, folding map at back. Wood grained wrappers. ¶ First Edition. Interesting accounts of desert places, animals, events, and yarns including The Phantom Ship, The Great Stone Face, Testudo the Desert Turtle, Don Coyote, Vallecito, The Camel Brigade, and An Empire Below Sea. The folding map was originally published in 1937 by Desert Magazine. Edward, Enduring Desert, pp.220-21: “good reading.”


SCHWACOFER, Leonard. WEST O’ THE COLORADO. Hemet News, 1934. 12mo, wrappers. ¶ First Edition of these prose sketches of the desert. Edward, Enduring Desert, pp.221.


SCOTT, Ferris. PALM SPRINGS AREA YEAR BOOK 1952. Santa Ana, 1952. 4to, 60pp, illus, maps, spiral bound. ¶ Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.331.


(Scotty’s Castle). (DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY’S CASTLE). A Description of the Castle and Its Furnishings as Given by the Castle Guides. (Death Valley: Castle Publishing Company), (1941). Sm 4to, 74pp, b/w illus. throughout. Red leather-textured title wrappers, lettered in gilt. Mild rubbing, light corner creases at covers, otherwise a very good copy. ¶ First Edition.


SCUMACHER, Genny (ed.). DEEPEST VALLEY, Guide to Owens Valley and Its Mountain Lakes, Roadsides and Trails. San Francisco: Sierra Club, (1962). 8vo, 206pp, illus in text + photo. plates. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition, scarce in cloth. A new edition in 1978 adds a new chapter on the Inyo County-Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dispute, and new road and trail information.


(Searles, John). LIFE OF JOHN SEARLES. San Francisco, 1906. ¶ Rare - nearly all copies were destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.10.


SEDDON, Marian. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CHOCOLATE MOUNTAIN GANG... Events Involving Early Campers at Imperial County Original Old Spa. Yuma: Sun Graphics, 1982. 8vo, (6), 71pp, b/w photo-illus. throughout, maps. Orig. photo-illus. wrappers, ¶ First Edition. Imperial County hot springs, originally discovered in 1938 during construction of the Coachella Branch of the All American Canal were continuously occupied by campers for nearly 20 years until 1964. This copy belonged to Tennie and Ralph Waring (see page 15) where their story appears along with a couple of short neat underlings of their names.


SEWELL, Lofinck. MOJAVE DESERT RAMBLINGS: A Treasury of Unforgettable Recollections of a Desert Philosopher. China Lake: Maturango Museum, 1966. 8vo, x, 160pp, photo. illus. in text. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ First Edition.“To have known ‘Pop’ Lofinck is a refreshing experience, seasoned with the tang of adventure. ‘Pop’ knows the desert. He should. He has studied it, and the life that endures on it, for more years than I would venture telling (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.158).



SHEDD, John Cutler. DESERT LORE. Los Angeles: The Author (Press of Jesse Ray Miller), 1931. 8vo, 41pp, wrappers. ¶ Only Edition. “This little-known items consists of 16 poems and 22 full-page sepia photography of the desert. The author acknowledges his indebtedness to Willard Selwyn Woo and Spencer R. Atkinson for these remarkably fine photographs” (Edwards p.223).


SHEDD, Solon. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF CALIFORNIA TO THE END OF 1929. Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1931. 8vo, 205pp. ¶ A preliminary listing of literature to the Golden State’s geology, paleontology, mineralogy, petrology, and related fields. The study was extend to 1935 five years later.


SHERRY, Ruth Forbes. HOURGLASS IN THE MOJAVE. Block Prints By Wallace Cook. West Los Angeles: Wagon & Star, 12mo, 48pp, 3 woodcuts plates in red, title woodcut & type in red. Salmon cloth, gilt. ¶ Only Edition, this copy inscribed “To my friend in love of all that is beautiful Ruth Forbes Sherry.” 500 copies were designed, handset and printed by Dion O’Donnol, with the woodcuts by Cook printed from the original blocks.


(Shields Date Gardens). COACHELLA VALLEY DESERT TRAILS, and The Romance and Sex Life of the Date. Indio: Shields Date Gardens, (1952). 8vo, 39pp, photographic illus. by Frasher printed in sepia. Wrappers. ¶ First Edition. “This neat little brochure contains articles on date culture in Coachella Valley, on Twentynine Palms and the Joshua Tree National Monument, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, Thousand Palm Canyon, and the Salton Sea Area. One rarely encounters an advertising medium that delivers such pronounced historical interest as may be found the Shields’ item” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.223).


(Shields Date Gardens). COACHELLA VALLEY DESERT TRAILS, The Salton Sea Saga and The Romance and Sex Life of the Date. (Indio): (Shields Date Gardens), (1957). 8vo, 39pp, full-page color illus. verso upper wrapper, sepia illus. throughout, 9 maps. Photo-illus. wrappers. ¶ Fifth edition, first published in 1952. “This neat little brochure contains articles on date culture in Coachella Valley, on Twentynine Palms and the Joshua Tree National Monument, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Indian Wells, Thousand Palm Canyon, and the Salton Sea Area. One rarely encounters an advertising medium that delivers such pronounced historical interest as may be found the Shields’ item” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.223).


SHINN, G. Hazen. SHOSHONEAN DAYS. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Co., 1941. ¶ First Edition. “The author recounts his recollections of life among the Indians around San Bernardino, the San Gorgonio Pass, Palm Springs, Morongo Valley, and Warner’s Ranch. His narrative dates back to the years 1885-1889” (Edwards, Lost Oases, p.99).


SHUMWAY, Nina Paul. MOUNTAIN OF DISCOVERY, Homesteading in the Santa Rosas above the Coachella Valley. Edited by Cathleen Paul Brant. (West Los Angeles: Westside Printing and Publishing, 1992). 8vo, xi, 209pp + a few b/w photo plates. Illustrated wrappers. ¶ Only Edition, this copy inscribed by the editor. A sequel to the author’s charming Your Desert and Mine, this book recounts her stay in the mountains near Idyllwild


SHUMWAY, Nina Paul. YOUR DESERT AND MINE. With an Introduction by Harold O. Weight. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1960. 8vo, xv, 322pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. “This is the story of the date industry in the Coachella Valley; also of the founding of Palm Springs. Included is what appears to be the true background account of old Fig Tree John, the Indian, and the nicely portrayed character of the respected desert artist - Carl Eytel....” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.225). “...the book remains - and, in all probability, will continue to remain - the basic narration of Coachella Valley” (Lost Oases p.100). Nina and her second husband, inspired by Smeaton Chase, made a Grand Tour in 1925 of the Colorado Desert, including what is now Joshua Tree National Park, and these chapters (Off for the Waterhole Country; Gold Strike; and Headed Home) are the most beautiful in the book - “of classic proportions in the field of desert literature” (Edwards).


SHUMWAY, Nina Paul. YOUR DESERT AND MINE. With an Introduction by Harold O. Weight. Palm Springs: ETC Publications, 1979. 8vo, xv, 322pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ Inscribed by the author on the endpaper. This second edition includes a new chapter and a postscript by Hilary Lambert Renwick.


SIEBECKER, Alice. KEY TO THE CACTI OF JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL MONUMENT... Joshua Tree Natural History Association/National Park Service, [n.d., ca. 1990]. Broadside measuring 18 x 24 inches, printed recto and verso, folded into 8 sections. Nearly fine. ¶ Park Service publication with illustrations and detailed descriptions of 15 cactus varieties, outline chart of cactus morphology, and map.


SIGNOR, John R. BEAUMONT HILL: Southern Pacific’s Southern California Gateway. San Marino: Golden West Books, 1990.


SIGNOR, John R. SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES. Pacific Lines Stations. Volume I. Coast Division, Los Angeles Division, Portland Division.


SIGNOR, John R. SOUTHERN PACIFIC - SANTA FE: TEHACHAPI. San Marino: Golden West, 1986.


SIGNOR, John R. THE LOS ANGELES AND SALT LAKE RAILROAD COMPANY; Union Pacific’s Historic Salt Lake Route. San Marino: Golden West, 1988.


SILKO, Leslie Marmon GARDENS IN THE DUNES. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. 8vo, 479pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition. Gardens in the Dunes begins and ends at a hidden garden near the Colorado River on the California-Arizona border, but covers ground that includes the early stages of women’s rights, female sexuality, quack medicine, Gnostic mysteries, Celtic magic, and flower husbandry. Leslie Marmon Silko’s previous novels include the well received Almanac of the Dead and Ceremony.


SIMON, Hilda Rita. THE DATE PALM, Bread of the Desert. New York: Dodd, Mead, (1978).


SIMPSON, Ruth Deette. COYOTE GULCH: Archaeological Investigations of an Early Lithic Locality in the Mohave Desert of San Bernardino County. Archaeological Survey Association of Southern California, 1961.


SITGREAVES, Capt. Lorenzo. REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION DOWN THE ZUNI AND COLORADO RIVERS. Washington D. C: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853. 8vo, 198pp, plus 78 plates (some tinted, one folding) & large folding map. Original blindstamped cloth. ¶ First Edition. Sitgreaves and his party traversed the country from Northern New Mexico to San Diego in the summer and fall of 1851, crossing northern Arizona and descending the Colorado to Yuma before crossing the desert. The report is notable for its many lithographic plates of scenes along the route, as well as of flora and fauna. Of the large map Wheat remarks: “a monumental achievement... generally correct and exceedingly well done.” Wagner-Camp 230:2. Field 1414. Howes S521. Sabin 81472. Wheat, Transmississippi, 763.


(Smith, Francis Marion). HILDEBRAND, George H. BORAX PIONEER: FRANCIS MARION SMITH. San Diego: Howell-North, 1982. Sm. 4to, 318pp, photos Brown leatherette with gilt lettering on spine,


SMITH, Gerald A. THE MOJAVE INDIANS.


SMITH, Gerald A. and L. Burr Belden and Arda M. Haenszel. “San Bernardino County Registered State Historical Landmarks.” [In:] San Bernardino County Museum Association Quarterly, Vol. XVII, No.1 [1969]. 4to, 74pp, frontispiece, sepia photo-illus. throughout, 2 maps (with table of contents serving as legend for numbered locations). Illus. wrappers. ¶ Presents 26 California State Historical Landmarks.


SMITH, Gerald A. & Ruth Dee Simpson. INDIAN BASKET MAKERS OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. Redlands: San Bernardino Museum,


(SMITH, Jedediah). THE SOUTHWEST EXPEDITION OF JEDEDIAH S. SMITH. His Personal Account of the Journey to California 1826-27. Edited with an Introduction by George R. Grooks. Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1977. 8vo, 259pp, maps. Orig. red cloth. ¶ First publication of Smith’s Journal, documenting the first overland journey to California by a white man. The ms. was first discovered in 1967. Clark & Brunet 265. Wagner-Camp 34n.


(SMITH, Jedediah). MORGAN, Dale. JEDEDIAH SMITH AND THE OPENING OF THE WEST. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1953. 8vo, 458pp, 20 illus. Cloth. ¶ First Edition of Morgan’s excellent biography of Jedediah Smith, the legendary mountain man, explorer, and trapper. “Smith was the first to go from Missouri overland to California, first to cross the length of Utah and Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. This is a biography that measures up to its subject” (Glen Dawson). Reprinted Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1953. Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.177.


(SMITH, Jedediah). MORGAN, Dale L. & Carl I. Wheat. JEDEDIAH SMITH AND HIS MAPS OF THE AMERICAN WEST. San Francisco: [Printed by Lawton R. Kennedy for the] California Historical Society 1954. Folio, (vi), 86pp, 7 lithographed maps (6 folding, 3 contained in rear cover pocket). Orig. maroon cloth, spine gilt lettered. ¶ First Edition of a scholarly work demonstrating that the fur-trader Jedediah Smith was not only one of the great early explorers of the West but a pioneer mapmaker of the region. The maps reprodcued include Brue’s 1933 Map of North America and his 1834 Map of Mexico, Gallatin’s 1837 Map of the Indian Tribes of Norther America, Burr’s 1839 Map fo the United States, Wilkes’ 1841 Map of Upper California, and the first publication of the Fremont-Gibbs-Smith map which was the first to accurately record Smith’s exploration in the West. This work was an extension of Morgan’s biography of Smith (Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West, 1953). Morgan and Wheat examined the notes taken by Oregon pioneer George Gibbs from a now-lost map of the trapper’s western travels drawn by Smith 1831, before the latter’s demise on the Santa Fe Trail. Although none of Smith’s manuscript maps have survived, the authors document the influence of these maps on contemporary and later cartographers. Streeter Sale 3099. California Historical Society Special Publication # 26, limited to 530 copies.


(SMITH, Jedediah). SULLIVAN, Maurice S. THE TRAVELS OF JEDEDIAH SMITH: A Documentary Outline Including the Journal of the Great American Pathfinder. Santa Ana: Fine Arts Press, 1934. xiv, 195pp, frontis. portrait, 11 plates, folding facs. map. ¶ First printing of Smith’s own account of his entrance into the fur trade in 1822, his journey up the Missouri to the Rockies, his trip to Salt Lake and across the Mohave Desert to the San Gabriel Mission and up the Sacramento in 1827-8. “For a complete historical significance of Smith’s life, one must consult [this book] which contains Smith’s own latter discovered diary and a map of his trails” (Zamorano Eight, 25n). Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.234. Howes S-1134. Mattes 13. See Wagner Camp 34n who cites the first of publication of the original ms. material as well as the reprint of the contemporary map by David H. Burr showing Smith’s route.


SMYTHE, William E. “An International Wedding.” [In:] Sunset 5, pp.286-300, October, 1900.


SMYTHE, William E. THE CONQUEST OF ARID AMERICA. New York: Macmillan Company, 1905. 8vo, 360pp, 31 full-page photo-illus. Cloth, rear hinge starting. ¶ Revised Edition.


SMYTHE, William Ellsworth. THE CONQUEST OF ARID AMERICA. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 8vo, xvi, 326, (2 ads)pp, frontispiece, 5 b/w photo-illus. plates, 3 maps. Publ. pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered spine. ¶ First Edition. “This vigorously optimistic book, sometimes called ‘the bible of the irrigationists,’ celebrates the accomplishments and the possibilities Ð both real and imagined Ð of reclamation in the early West . . . As a journalist and popular speaker, Smythe became one of the leading crusaders for the conservation movement, and took part himself in several reclamation projects in the West. His book, first published in 1900, reflects an increasingly widespread attitude of the time: the belief that irrigation was the instrument for transforming society in the western third of the continent . . . A classic statement of the history, rationale, and program of the Progressive Era reclamation movement . . .” Smythe was a Yankee journalist whose career only began to flourish when he beat the drum for reclamation. He founded the movement’s most influential periodical, Irrigation Age. See Carlson, “William E. Smythe: Irrigation Crusader, and Henry S. Anderson’s “The Little Landers’ Land Colonies.” Adams, Herd, 2104; Six Guns, 2058. A second edition appeared in the same year, and a new edition in 1907.


SNELL, George. AND IF MAN TRIUMPH. Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, 1938. 8vo, 217pp. Cloth, dust jacket. ¶ A historical novel based oh the Manley-Bennett Death Valley Party of 1849.


SOLTYS, Richard J. COACHELLA VALLEY, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow... (La Quinta: the Author), [n.d., ca. 1990]. Obl. 8vo, 192, (4)pp, photo-illus. endpapers, b/w and color photo-illus. throughout. Green faux morocco, lettered in gilt, dust jacket. ¶ First Edition.


SOUTH, Marshall. MARSHAL SOUTH AND THE GHOST MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES, An Experiment in Primitive Living. Edited and with a Foreword by Diana Lindsay. Introduction by Rider and Lucile South. San Diego: Sunbelt Publications, (2005). 4to, xi, 321pp, b/w illus. throughout. Color illus. wrappers. ¶ The mysterious hermit Marshall South lived with his family for 17 years on a remote mountain in the Anza-Borrego wilderness. This volume collects the articles he submitted to Desert Magazine in the 1940s, and more importantly reveals the true story of his life through the memoirs of Rider South, the eldest of Marshall’s three children who were raised on Ghost Mountain.


(Southern California Deserts). SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DESERTS. (California State Chamber of Commerce, 1953-54). 8vo, 30pp including photo illus. & maps. Illus. wrappers. ¶ A promotional booklet prepared by the Travel and Recreation Department of the California State Chamber of Commerce (J.E. Carpenter, Director) with chapters on the Coachella Valley, Imperial Valley, Palo Verde Valley, Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley & Twentynine Palms, Borrego, the Mojave Valley, and Needles, with tips for visitors. Several of the photographs are by Frashers and the maps are from the Automobile Club.


(Southern Pacific Company). HISTORICAL OUTLINE OF THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY. San Francisco: The Bureau of News, Southern Pacific Co., 1933. 106pp.


(Southern Pacific Land Company Map). SOUTHERN PACIFIC LAND COMPANY LANDS IN CALIFORNIA. Sheets Four and Six. Los Angeles/San Francisco: Southern Pacific Land Company, 1947. Folded map measuring 15-1/2 by 31 inches. ¶ Map with 1-square-mile lots plotted from the edge of Los Angeles and Orange Counties in the west across the Coachella Valley and the region of Salton Sea to the Colorado River in the east.


SOUTHWORTH, John. THE MANLY-ROGERS TRAILS THROUGH THE SLATE RANGE OF CALIFORNIA IN 1850. Los Angeles: The Westerners, Spring, 2006. 8vo, 6pp in whole issue of The Branding Iron no.243.


SPAMER, Earle E. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GRAND CANYON AND THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER 1540-1980. Grand Canyon: Grand Canyon Natural History Association, 1981.


SPEARS, John R. ILLUSTRATED SKETCHES OF DEATH VALLEY and other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1892. 8vo, 226, (6, ads)pp. Numerous reproductions of black-and-white photographs, illustrated chapter heads, map. Original cloth. ¶ First Edition. The illustrations in the book may be the first photographs ever taken of Death Valley. “Many books and articles written of the Mojave Desert and its glamorous Valley of Death ... are of an ephemeral nature, arousing only a passing interest in the country they attempt to describe. Spears’ Illustrated Sketches, on the other hand, is a book equally as distinguished as it is distinctive; and its substance guarantees as perpetual the sustained interest that pulses throughout every chapter. It is as adequate and dependable a commentary on Death Valley and the Mojave Desert today as it was ... when Spears wrote it. It is Death Valley’s number two book; and it will probably continue to remain so. Certainly no desert collection even merits the name without a copy of the Spears” (Edwards, Enduring Desert, pp.227-228). Edwards, Desert Treasures, p.2. Cowan p.604. Howes S821. Paher 1844.


SPIER, Leslie. YUMAN TRIBES OF THE COLORADO RIVER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1933. 431pp.


STEERE, Collis H. IMPERIAL AND COACHELLA VALLEYS. Stanford: Stanford University Press, (1952). Tall narrow 8vo, (90)pp, illus in b/w throughout. Wrappers illus with map of the area. ¶ Remains a useful and very readable guide.


STEGON, Dina. LUXURY LIVING IN THE DESERT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Decor Books, 2005.


STEIN, Lou. SAN DIEGO COUNTY PLACE-NAMES. [N.p]: Rand Editions/Tofua Press, (1988). 8vo, xv, (1), 163, (2 map)pp. Pictorial wrappers. ¶ Fifth printing, first published in 1975. Bucksnort Mountain, Horsethief Canyon, Nude Wash, Escondido, Olivehain, and Spook Canyon are among the more than 800 place names Mr. Stein describes.


STEPHENS, Lorenzo Dow. LIFE SKETCHES OF A JAYHAWKER OF ‘49. Actual Experiences of a Pioneer Told by Himself and in his Own Way San Jose: Nolta Brothers, 1916. 68pp, 6 plates. Orig. stiff brown wrappers stamped in gilt. ¶ First Edition, one of 300 copies, of a scarce overland qaccount of a restless Jayhawker tho traveled Death Valley with Manly. “Stephens joined an Illinois company that left for California on March 28, 1849. The company traveled to Fort Laramie, South Pass, Fort Bridger, and Salt Lake City before veering off to the Southern Route and Death Valley. Surviving this ordal, he followed the coast from Los Angeles to San Jose and then to the diggings ... A restless type, he joined the mining rush of British Columbia in 1862 and the Klondike in 1898” (Kurutz 611). Adams, Herd, 2160; Six-Guns 2136. Cowan p.613. Howes S-941.


STEWART, Ramona. DESERT TOWN. New York: William Morrow, (1946). ¶ First Edition. Fritzi Haller ran the town of Chuckawalla including a high class saloon and gambling place and a bordello or two, her mistake was thinking she could run her daughter Paula the same way. Baird & Greenwood 2358: “A woman who runs a saloon in the Mojave Desert wishes for an easier life for her daughter.”


STEWART, Ramona. DESERT TOWN. Cleveland & New York: World Publishing, (1947). 8vo, (4), 248pp. Red cloth, dus