MAGAZINE of the SOUTHWEST

SEPTEMBER, 1962 40c

 ARIZONA GLENWOOD SPRINGS
FLAGSTAFF Mountain Motors
Morris Motors 918 Grand Avenue
322 W. Santa Fe TELLURIDE
PHOENIX Telluride Transfer
Western Truck Sales, Inc. TRINIDAD
Southern Motor Co., Inc.
3530 E. Washington 115 Elm Street
PRESCOTT
Rollie Gerdes Motors, Inc. IDAHO
301 W. Gurley Street SALMON
TUCSON Meeks Motors
Joe's Auto Center MONTANA
2209 S. Sixth Avenue BILLINGS
YUMA Midland Implement Co., Inc.
Swift Ford Sales P.O. Box 2533
1491 Fourth Avenue Surges Supply
CALIFORNIA 1916 Third Avenue, North
ALTURAS BOZEMAN
Norine Motors
231 N. Main St. BUTTE
AVENAL H & K Motors
1921 Harrison Ave.
Sanders Motors
120 E. Kings Street CONRAD
BAKERSFIELD Torske Rambler Sales
S. A. Camp Motor Co. 324 S. Front St.
20th Street, G to H DEER LODGE
P.O. Box 1556 Marvin C. Beck Used Cars
BLYTHE 311 Missouri
Munson Equipment Co. ENNIS
11390 Highway 60, West GREAT FALLS
P.O. Box 128 Johnson Farm Equipment, Inc.
CARMICHAEL 325 Second Street, South
Carmichael Cars, Inc. HAMILTON
3842 Fair Oaks Blvd. Hamilton Motor Co.
CHICO 800 N. First
Vee Bee Engineering Co. HARDIN
469 S. Highway 99E Valley Implement Co.
EL CAJON 323 N. Cheyenne
Mission Valley Auto Sales HARLOWTON
727 El Cajon Blvd. Brown's Ranch Supply, Inc.
EL CENTRO KALISPELL
Imperial Honda Sales Greg's Mobile Homes, Inc.
Highway 99 City 7, Highway # 2
(next door to Calif. LEWISTOWN
Hwy Patrol) Dan Morrison & Sons
EUREKA 207 W. Janeaux
K. B. McCarthy MISSOULA
4th and " A " Streets
GRASS VALLEY Folsom Co., Inc.
Hartman Chev. Oldsmobile 920 S. 3rd West
314 W. Main Street PLAINS
HEMET Coffey Chev. Co.
Damon F. Pauley REDSTONE
25050 San Jacinto Street Nash Brothers
HOLLYWOOD NEVADA
Hollywood Toyota Motor, Inc.
HENDERSON
6032 Hollywood Blvd.
Dick Stewart Motor Co., Inc.
LARKSPUR
120 Water St.
Hil Probert Motors
250 Magnolia Avenue NEW MEXICO
LONG BEACH ALBUQUERQUE
K & L Trucks Roadrunner Equipment Co.
3595 E. Pacific Coast Hwy. 150 Woodward Road
MADERA LAS CRUCES
Hartwig Motors Sunland Motors
409 N. " E " Street 2220 So. Truck By-Pass
NAPA ROSWELL
Ritz Equipment Co. Ramm's Body Shop
2032 Vallejo Road 120 E. Walnut
PASADENA OREGON
Trans Ocean Motor Co., Inc. EUGENE
2124 E. Colorado Blvd. Economy Motors
PLACERVILLE 164 W. 11th Street
Stancil's Garage HOOD RIVER
7 Market Street C. M. & W. O. Sheppard
POMONA MEDFORO
Pomona Motors Dean & Taylor Pontiac Co.
840 E. Holt Ave.
6th & Grape Street
REDDING
ONTARIO
Don D. Davis Motors
1234 Yuba Street Ore-Ida Motors. Inc.
RESEDA OSWEGO
Allen-Neill Motors Lake Oswego Rambler
7601 Reseda Blvd. 109 " A " Street
RIVERSIDE WASHINGTON
Citrus Motor Company ABERDEEN
3100 Market Street
Ellison Pontiac
SAN DIEGO 416 N. Park Street
Mission Valley Auto Sales SEATTLE
5921 Fairmount Avenue Ext.
Tenney's Automotive
SANTA ANA 3300 N.E. 55th Street
Toyota's Land Cruiser has got the power the others Copeland Motors, Inc. SPOKANE
321 E. First Street
Barton Oldsmobile Co.
haven't to take you where the prized game is —and SANTA MARIA
Speed Marine Sports Center
1002 W. Second Avenue
VANCOUVER
1637 N. Broadway Gaub's Auto & Truck Service
the other hunters aren't! Goes up to 85 MPH on the SUSANVILLE 4209 St. Johns Road
Deal & Davle. Inc. YAKIMA
highway —you don't have to tow a Toyota Land Cruiser 1107 Main Street Buckley's Jeep &Truck Repair
113 S. 4th Street
UKIAH
WYOMING
to where it's needed. Goes up steep 64° grades- Riva Motor Service Garage
301 S. State Street BUFFALO
WOODLAND Hank's Car Market
through sand, mud, swamp or snow. With 135 HP W. S. Marks E. Highway 16
CASPER
Route 2, Box 260
The Motor Mart
under the hood, and 9 forward speeds, 3 reverse, the YREKA 130 N. Walcott
Frank Sellstrom CODY
99 Highway South
Toyota Land Cruiser 4-wheel drive soft top, station YUBA CITY
Custom Auto Sales
1737 —17th Street
Earl R. Huffmaster DOUGLAS
wagon or pick-up truck is game enough to go anywhere. 226 Bridge Street Yellow Dot Service
100 S. Fourth
COLORADO
Seats 7. Amazes all. Drive it yourself-at your Toyota BOULDER
LANDER
Chopping, Inc.
Jefferies Motor Co. Highway 287, S.W. of Lander
Land Cruiser dealer's. Don't pass the buck-do it today! 2506 Spruce Street RAWLINS
Uptown Motors
COLORADO SPRINGS
Larry Dummer's 319 —4th Street
Auto & Marine RIVERTON
1329 Fountain Creek Chopping Chevrolet, Inc.

TOYOT/ ILANO CRUISER!

Blvd. (Motor City) 1500 N. Highway 26
CRAIG WORLAND
Craig Motor Company Fausset Implement Co.
555 Yampa Avenue 1218 Big Horn Avenue
DENVER FACTORY HEADQUARTERS,
James Motor Company U.S.A.
1278 Lincoln Street Toyota Motor Dist., Inc.
South Federal Motors 6032 Hollywood Boulevard
889 S. Federal Blvd. Los Angeles 28, California
 —THE DESERT IN SEPTEMBER:

The New West; In 1876 Brigham Young dis-

patched a man named Lot Smith to Arizona
to push the frontier of Mormonism south-
ward. Lot settled in the Mormon Lake coun-
try below Flagstaff, where he raised cattle
and horses. In 1892 Lot was gunnedndown
by Navajos. A few months later his son, Jim,
was born.
"Between us," Jim says, "my father and I
span 133 years of frontier history."
By the time he was 18, Jim was busy

Road grader at work at Golden Horseshoe Ranches

building his empire. Even

as he acquired ranching
property, he took a liking
to politics. He served Ari-
zona as state represen-
tative, state senator, coun-
ty assessor, deputy sher-
MAGAZINE OF THE SOUTHWEST 25TH YEAR iff, and member of the
state hospital board and
state highway commis- ,
Volume 25 Number 9
sion. Jim Smith also ran Jim Smith
for governor. At present,
the 68-year-old Smith is making another bid
for the state senate. "Maybe," he says, "I'll
CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1962 retire one of these days when my horse
steps into a badger hole."
This Month's Cover—
At one time Jim and his immediately fam-
The Navajo girl is a beauty contest winner at the Northern Navajo
Fair at Shiprock, New Mexico. The Fair is an annual September event
ily controlled more than a million acres in
(dates for this year's show were not announced at press time), at Arizona, and it may well be that he was
which the Yeibichai Dance and All-Indian Rodeo are the main events. the largest ranch operator in the United
For more on Navajo rodeos, see page 22. This month's cover photo- States. One of these ranches—550,000 acres
graph was taken by Andre Dienes, who has acquired fame and for- in size—is in the northwest corner of the
tune photographing Hollywood beauty queens.
state (in fact, it is the northwest corner of
Places to See— the state). That's 860 square-miles of land,
more than two-thirds the size of Rhode Island
9 The Alabama Hills WARREN and BARBARA TRANSUE
16 Three Sketches of Eastern Nevada CHORAL PEPPER
and nearly half as big as Delaware. The
22 The Rodeo at Coal Mine Canyon FRANK A. TINKER immense tract, which is still being surveyed
by airplane, lies under the bow of the Colo-
Nature's Wonders— rado River where Davis and Hoover dams
7 Garden Hints for September impound the waters of lakes Mohave and
12 Water—Giver of Life EDMUND C. JAEGER Mead, respectively. The ranch begins 30
13 "Shellfish" from the Desert GEORGE W. LEETCH miles north of Kingman and stretches on
both sides of Highway 93 until it strikes the
Discovering the Desert— Colorado's shorelines on north and west.
20 A Little Girl Finds Some Big "Treasure" Elevation ranges from 800 feet on the Lake
30 Initials Carved in 1849 CHARLES KELLY Mohave shores to nearly 5000 feet in the
On The Adventure Trail— hills.
14 A Fractured Field Trip VIVIENNE DOSSE Prehistoric man lived here; the area
abounds in petroglyphs. Sixty species of
Other Features— mammals have been described on the
3 The Desert in September ranch, including the rare bighorn sheep.
4 Desert Detours OREN ARNOLD
There are 250 different kinds of birds, from
8 Letters from our Readers
37 Poem of the Month MAUDE RUBIN
the tiniest of the humming birds to the ma-
38 New and Interesting Southwest Books CHARLES E. SHELTON continued on page 5
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 "You'd better come back to New York to have your baby,"
an anxious mother wrote her daughter in what she envisioned
as frontier false-front Phoenix in 1962. "Conditions are so
primitive out there."
*
Then there was the New Yorker who spotted a fine
earthenware jar made by one of our desert Indians, asked
how much, and was given a price of $50. "That's nonsense,"
exclaimed to tourist. "I'll give you $24."
"Listen, wise guy," poor Lo the potter shot back, "bargains
like Manhattan Island you are not going to get any more!"

As I understand it, the slogan for America's most

distinguished desert-dwelling statesman, Senator Barry
Goldwater, is "I'd rather be far right than president."
"Come ye yourselves apart into a desert •
place, and rest a while." Mark 6:31 Having learned to do the twist on the golf course, I have
no trouble sashaying through a thicket of cholla when I go
desert hiking. But cholla segments will leap up to six feet
September is gratitude month. Gratitude for what? If and attack you—which explains why my left arm is bandaged
you have to ask that, you don't have it. Gratitude to whom? this week. Eastern dudes don't dig these scientific desert
If you have to ask that, you may never have it. Gratitude, phenomena; they think the only dangers we face are stage-
sir, because the sun is moving back southward, and the desert coach robbers and scalping redskins.
heat is waning. I could name a hundred more reasons, but
one's enough. Now tonight you lay back somewhere, gaze up
at the stars, and figure out the "whom" part for yourself. Whenever 1 visit swanky desert towns like Palm City, Sun
* City and Youngtown, I figure it's almost a privilege to grow
September also is relief month in most homes. With school old so 1 can live out there. No matter what Moscow says,
starting, Mom gets relief from the kids; and even more Americans keep their high standard of living right on through
blessed—the kids get relief from Mom. the golden years. Love of children and old folks may be our
•k
greatest mark of distinction.
Somewhat of necessity I have joined the government's
philosophy of "Spend, spend, spend in order to be prosperous." / also like a certain store 1 found in the hills of southern
Wherefore, I now propose that we change Death Valley into Arizona. The merchandise is realistically priced. A saddle,
a swamp. The cost will be nineteen billion dollars, but so for example, has a tag that says: "Asking $100. Rock bot-
what? A billion dollars is merely a stack of $1000 bills as tom, $100." Another saddle says: "Asking $75. Will take
high as the Washington monument. Spending nineteen times $74.75." Now that's real citified price slashin'.
that would guarantee more prosperity. Envision it—a swamp
where Scotty used to live! Patriotic planning, hey?
• Perhaps you are aware of the experimental technique
In the good old desert days, we could look up at Help get rid of desert billboards.
fleecy clouds and imagine we saw sheep and ships
instead of mushrooms. that has had the advertising world in a furor. I refer
• Don't throw beer cans on our roadsides.
Movies taken on our desert vacation this year are no more to the new (and sneaky!) approach called "sublimin-
distinguished than last year's. I still panoram too fast, cut off Help get rid of desert billboards.
heads, and get too many telephone poles and/or beer cans
in the foreground. al" or "phantom" selling. On TV or theater screen,
Never dump trash in desert scenery.
a line such as "Eat popcorn" is flashed many times
Help get rid of desert billboards.
during a show, so fast it is not seen but is "registered
Don't throw beer cans on our roadsides.
on the subconscious mind." On radio, the message is
Never dump trash in desert scenery.
far below normal broadcast intensity, such as whisper-
Help get rid of desert billboards.
ing. Some advertising folk claim it works wonders.
Don't throw billboards on our roadsides.
Well, we good desert people like to live modern, so in
Never dump trash in desert scenery.
due time we'll check results and report to you on
Help get rid of desert billboards.
any success.
•
"College," says Alkali Ike, "is a place where a student
learns to live by his pen. He uses it to write home for money."
•
Dates are getting ripe in Phoenix and lndio areas. Dates
have the highest food value per pound of any agricultural
product known to man. They are sweet, tasty, wonderful.
But they can be expensive—1 had a few with a college girl
once, and I've had to support her all the rest of our lives.
•
"Your mind fills only with what you put into it," the pastor
of a little church at Gila Bend told me. He's right. So this
month, friends, let's not fill ours with political or spiritual
"Trouble with desert prospectin', some fellers git garbage. Let's listen less to the "statesmen" orating, and
to imaginin' things!" more to the quiet, enriching Voice. Tune into it via prayer.
And don't ask for much except instructions. Then obey. / / /
 run for your money! THE DESERT IN SEPTEMBER (continued from page 3)
WARN® HUBS
jestic golden eagle; 60 are water fowl and wading birds. The Joshua
on your 4-WHEEL DRIVE! tree invades Arizona in this stretch of land. There are cacti and
That goes for your vehicle as brittlebush; wildflowers in the spring.
well as Warn Hubs. The hubs
stop front end drag in 2-wheel The ranch even has its own ghost town—White Hills, Arizona. This
drive, save gears, gas, tires —
give your vehicle more life, was the scene of a silver strike in the 1890s. Fifteen good mines oper-
greater handling ease. And ated in this area, and White Hills had a population of 1500.
Warn Hubs—Lock-O-Matic or
Locking — are the most de- One of the men who fell in love with this country was Ashley L
pendable and convenient you
can own. Ask your dealer!
Robison, Western newspaper-radio-television station owner.
"To me," said Robison, "this was the most delightful part of the
K W W A R N MFG. CO.
H*"^V RIVERTON BOX 6064-DM West. Primitive enough for adventure, convenient enough for modem
^•"^™ SEATTLE 8 8 , WASH.
living, comfortable enough for happy family homes."
Robison and his associates bought the ranch from Smith for
•end HIDDEN TREASURES $6,129,705. It was the largest private land transaction in Arizona
COUi, SILVER, PRECIOUS METALS wild lilt Foaww Modtl history.
27 Mttol D.l.tlor. lightweight, iritra-MiulHva, law
tost. N o m fin.r. A I M GEIGER COUNTERS for uranium -
and D M VIOUTE for tungiUn. INFORMATION FREE .
Renamed Golden Horseshoe Ranchos, subdivision of the land is
t m
underway. Engineering teams are busy on a six-year, million dollar
INSTRUMENTS..
Often Copied — Never Excelledd
job of laying out the future homesites.
METAL DETECTORS Instructions to surveyors, Robison said, call for a masterplan that
More accurate, it's the first metal detector incorporates all modern suburban features, including parks, golf
designed specifically for detecting placer
Stold, nuggets, and other small metal ob-
courses, reservoirs, lakes, shopping and community centers, and a
jects. Depth range 7 feet—comes complete, complete network of collector and arterial thoroughfares. Work is
ready to use.
MODEL 27—instructions included $119.95
scheduled to provide new access routes to the Lake Mead Recrea-
MODEL 711—with 21 ft. depth range $149.00 tion Area and the Colorado River, some parts of which were previous-
ly inaccessible by road.
During the next few years, six to eight surveying crews will be
working at one time. The overall project represents the largest sur-
veying contract ever let in Arizona.
Robison has ordered his planners to "preserve the natural beauty"
of the rolling desert land with curvilineal roads rather than an arbi-
trary pattern of a grid layout. "Golden Horseshoe Ranchos," said
Robison, "will provide the kind of life America is looking for."

LAKEWOOD CHEMICAL KIT Hurrah for the Fourth! The zany, authentic handbill for the 1899
The Lakewood Chemical Kit can be used in Fourth of July celebration at Johannesburg, Calif., which we publish-
connection with all the principal texts on
minerals such as Dana, Pough, O. C. Smith, ed in the July issue, had everything in it but a credit line. The man
I'ennfield, Duke's Course, and many others. we inadvertently forgot to thank in print is Douglas F. Mooers of
The Lakewood Chemical Kit, because of
(he acids it contains, is not recommended Malibu, Calif. It was Mr. Mooers who so kindly loaned our art depart-
lor persons under 18 years old. Priced
.'f36.00 Express only. ment a copy of the original handbill. Now, Mr. Mooers is no ordinary
SEND FOR FREE LITERATURE mining town buff. He happens to be the grandson of Frederick M.
Mooers, the man who discovered the famous Yellow Aster Mine at
Comtxton <d\ooh <S>noh. Randsburg (Johannesburg's neighbor camp). "The Fourth of July hand-
1405 S. Long Beach Blvd., Compton, Calif. bill was given to me in the early twenties by the owner of the Silver
NEwmork 2-9096 Streak Hotel in Randsburg," wrote Mr. Mooers the Younger. "As this is
South of Compton Blvd.
almost 40 years ago, I regret to say that I have forgotten his name."
To Mr. Mooers our apologies for the credit-line oversight; and our
WHEN WRITING
to an advertiser, please mention
sincerest thanks for a grand bit of old—and true—West humor.
that you read the ad in DESERT
The Great Desert Race. For seven autumns, 1908-14, one of the most
exciting sports event in the world took place along the roads and ruts
NORTHERN ARIZONA connecting Los Angeles and Phoenix. This was the grueling Desert
Race, considered by many authorities as the greatest auto race of all
Vacation in the beautiful scenic wonders, time—the province of the Stanley Steamer, the Kissell Kar, Franklin,
in the cool pines, of Oak Creek Canyon. Stutz, Elmore, Cadillac, Isotta, Buick, Simplex, Hupmobile—and gutty
Year 'round trout fishing at your door. drivers like Herrick, Bramblette, Nikrent, Soules, Oldfield and Ralph
Photographer's Paradise Hamlin.
Don Hoel's Cabins In the October, 1912, race, Hamlin came home the winner in his
"In the heart of Oak Creek Canyon" air-cooled Franklin. He will describe that thrilling run in next month's
i'4 completely furnished housekeeping cabins. DESERT—October, 1962. "It is rather difficult to realize what has taken
Write DON HOEL, Owner place in Imperial Valley since 1908 (the first of five Desert Races he
Oak Creek Route, Flagstaff, Arizona drove in) when the going was tough," Hamlin wrote recently. "It is
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20 miles south of Flagstaff, on 89A highways being rough. As time goes on, I wonder what things will
be like 60 years from now!" CONTINUED^
 NEW TREASURE BOOKS
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September Calendar: Four Corners, where Arizona, New Mexico, Peters. Detailed accounts of finding huge
Colorado and Utah meet at a common point, will be the scene on gold nuggets and boulders, Mother Lode
September 16 of dedication ceremonies for the newly paved Navajo country, California, a hundred years ago.
Trail Highway. The contractor reports that he will have the "roadbed Information old mining camps, lucky finds,
and base course work" on the final 42 miles of road completed before hidden riches, etc 150 pp.—$3.00
the ceremony, but is not sure the oil surface can be poured in time. 4000 CIVIL WAR BATTLES, compiled in 1899
In any event, the final link of the road will be usable by the 16th. by J. W. Carnahan and now offered in full;
lists thousands of battles and engagements,
The Navajo Trail Highway cuts diagonally from the southwest corn- with some details; locations, dates command-
er of the Navajo reservation near Flagstaff to the northeast corner near ers, losses etc. Numerous incidents west of
Cortez, Colorado. The hard-surface will link with the outside world Mississippi not heretofore made known. . .
hitherto isolated posts such as Dinnehotso, Mexican Water and Teec . . . . 128 pp.—$2.00
Nos Pos. The Four Corners itself, marked by a crude monument sched- TREASURE HUNTER'S MANUAL, by Karl von
uled to be replaced by a more elaborate marker, is a few feet from the Mueller. The fact-technical book lauded by
new pavement. all interested in Treasure Trove. How, where,
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Inez Goss remembers the road "when." Mrs. Goss and her husband tions, state by state treasure analysis. Sold
were Indian traders for a dozen years before moving to Cortez. She while the remainder lasts! . . 371 pp.—$7.50
sent us the "before and after" photos above.
DEEK GLADSON'S GHOST TOWN MAP OF
"Regardless of the weather," she writes, "the road presented its NEVADA. Four color, 24x36" size, with infor-
share of hazards. When it was dry, the danger was from deep shift- mation and location of 115 genuine ghosts,
ing sand. In wet weather, there were miles of slick clay which would researched in the field $2.00
become hub-deep on occasion. With no culverts to carry off the water, THE TREASURE ALBUM OF PANCHO VILLA,
it would sometimes take weeks for the road to dry-up. And then there by Jesse Ed Rascoe. The story of the Villa
were always the sections of bedrock to worry the motorist. These revolution in Mexico and his border jumping
rough outcroppings, denuded of their poor soil by wind and rain, are is told, as found in old newspapers, archives.
a familiar part of every unimproved road on the Reservation. Broken Authentic "treasure" accounts are told, as
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Other September dates:
In California: thru the 3rd—Antelope Valley Fair, Lancaster. 1-3— Frontier Book Company
Tri-County Fair and Rodeo, Bishop. 3-9—San Bernardino County Fair, Mail Order Books
Victorville. 15-16—Annual Cactus Days and Flower Show, Palm Wells Dept. DM
(near Yucca Valley). TOYAHVALE, TEXAS
In Arizona: 1-3—Rodeo, Williams. 2—"Night in Belgrade," Bisbee.
6-9—Navajo Tribal Fair, Window Rock. 8-9—Boat Races, Parker. 14-16
—Navajo County Fair, Holbrook. 14-16—Yavapai County Fair, Pres- CHANGING ADDRESS?
New postal regulations make it important
cott. 15—Mexican Fiesta, Glendale. 21-23—Quarter Horse Show, Pres- that you send your change-of-address
cott. notice to us promptly. And please re-
In Nevada: 1-3—Stampede and '49er Show, Fallon. 1-3—Annual member to list your old address as well
as your new.
Rodeo, Winnemucca. 5-19—Community Fair-Circus, Las Vegas. 8-9— Circulation Dept., Desert Magazine
National Ski Races, Lake Mead. /// Palm Desert, Calif.
 APACHE LAND

BEAUTIFUL
SCENERY
FISHING
HUNTING
FREE
— THINGS TO DO IN SEPTEMBER CAMP GROUNDS

a Vacation Land
to Remember

September is a good month for planting

new lawns. Be sure to keep ground moist
until seed is well sprouted. Established
roses in all areas of the Southwest except
the colder northern portions. Coffee-
grounds can be spread on ground around
FORT APACHE
lawns should be fertilized with a slow-re- acid-loving plants.
lease nitrogen fertilizer.
NEVADA, UTAH AND NORTHERN
Seed can be added to a thin lawn, or to

tmmm
ARIZONA: Perennials should be divid-
repair damaged areas. Use a steel rake to ed and replanted in September. For house
remove dead grass and loosen soil, then bloom, plants should be brought in at least
scatter about one-fourth the usual amount two weeks before heat is needed indoors.
of seed necessary for a new lawn, and
water immediately. LOW DESERT: Prepare the ground
for perennials. Rose beds should be gone The White Mountain Apache Indians welcome you.
over in preparation for the fall season of Come and enjoy the wonderful mountain climate,
bloom; prune and remove dead and dis- the beautiful primitive scenery, clear, cold streams
eased wood, fertilize lightly, water as need- and the best trout fishing in the Southwest.
ed. Mums will need light feeding until buds
show color, and be sure to keep the soil
FOR INFORMATION AND MAPS, WRITE
moist.
HIGH DESERT: Peonies and spring WHITE MOUNTAIN
flowering perennials may be planted, or RECREATION ENTERPRISE
divided and replanted this month. Do not
plant peonies deeply; about two inches be- P.O. BOX 218
low soil level is proper. They will not WHITERIVER, ARIZONA
CALIFORNIA DESERTS: If plants bloom if set too deeply.
can be protected from the sun, or the wea-
ther begins to cool, quick maturing annuals
can be planted now for winter bloom—or
for vegetable garden. Many annuals may IF THE SOUTHWEST
be planted late in September for early sum- is your hobby, read all about it! Send
mer bloom. Larkspur, pansy, snapdragon for our free Southwest Book Catalog.
and calendula seeds should be refrigerated Desert Magazine—Palm Desert, Calif.
for a week or two before planting.
Tulip bulbs should be refrigerated until
December before planting. For winter
bloom indoors, September is the month to
plant Narcissi (paper-white) in bowls of
pebbles and water. Evergreen and decidious trees may be
A FREE SERVICE
planted any time if they are container-
Dahlias should be dug when the tops
grown and watered carefully when planted.
TO VACATION-PLANNING
have died down, and the clumps stored in
a dry cool place. SUBSCRIBERS. . .
LOW DESERT: Citrus will need water-
NEVADA, UTAH AND NORTHERN ing, however, you must be careful not to
ARIZONA: Spring-flowering bulbs may overwater subtropical shrubs. DESERT will be happy to send
be planted in late September. Depth of you appropriate brochures and
planting is 2'/2 times the width of the bulb. HIGH DESERT: Continue watering folders on your Southwest vaca-
Tuiips should be the last bulbs to be plant- Azaleas and Rhododendrons. Hibiscus will
ed. Add bonemeal to poor soil. Dig and store do better with less water and fertilizer now. tion target. Merely indicate what
gladiolus. Bulbs that are normally dormant section of the Desertland you plan
in winter may not have died down natural- NEVADA, UTAH AND NORTHERN to visit, and when. There is no
ly [his month, but they can be encouraged ARIZONA: Continue watering hardy charge for this service.
to do so if water is withheld. trees and shrubs until rains begin.

Southwest Trauel
Desert Magazine
Palm Desert. Calif.

\(pevennials Southwest tourism entrepreneurs (motelmen,

guides, camp operators, etc.), not already
contacted by DESERT, who would like their
literature distributed to readers and visitors
The tops of most perennials should not Seed of Century Plants can be gathered to DESERT'S pueblo, are invited to send
be cut off in the fall because the exposed when they ripen in late summer (and later). samples of their brochures to the above
hollow stems may lead to rotting of the Plant is sandy loam. Allow them plenty of address.
roots. September is a good month to plant room to grow. ///
 These measures always fail in areas of Jesuit Treasure...
soft, light silt because they deform the
To the Editor: Please compliment Father
LETTERS land by producing gullies, gigantic mounds,
and long drifts which are worse than the
original condition.
C. W. Polzer for his excellent article on
Jesuit Treasure (Desert, August '62). How
that old fable keeps alive is beyond me, yet
FROM OUR READERS As an individual who has had many it does, and with surprising strength.
years of personal experience with the local
dunes, I would like to report my experi- 1 spend much time in Tubac, Arizona.
ences, and make some original suggestions. Hardly a month goes by without some
We have found that the red gum eucalyp- woolyheaded treasure hunter coming down.
Henderson's Retirement . . . tus is the best tree to plant. It grows like They look longingly at Tumacacori (for-
a weed in the sand, takes little care, and tunately safe as a national monument).
To the Editor: My best thanks for your since it has no low branches, it stops the
tribute to Randall Henderson in the June wind without causing gullies and dunes. One man actually hired Mexicans to dig
issue. I am sure it will be approved by the This tree should be distributed at cost all about one half mile from Tumacacori Mis-
vast majority of readers. over the sand dune area, and also planted sion for several days. He "understood" the
by the state along the roads in the Fontana Jesuits had a "secret" tunnel of escape
PAUL LINSLEY "under the river"!
San Andreas, Calif. area.
Finally, decomposed granite granules He selected his digging location next to
should be dropped from helicopters or bo- a small chapel nearby. When it was pointed
Sand Control . . . out that this "chapel" was actually the cov-
To the Editor: The furor still continues rate bombers for miles over the dunes. ering for a modern pump, and built only
as to how to combat the sand storm men- Everyone has noted that these granules a few years ago by the local dude ranch,
ace on Highway 99 in California's Coach- lay the sand, but in the past there has been he replied that they must have had some-
ella Valley. State engineers are trying the no feasible method for distribution of these thing earlier to go on or they wouldn't have
same old methods — fences, mounds, tam- granules on a vast, uniform scale. erected the out-house in the form of a
arisks — which have been tried and failed W. H. KUPPER chapel. And he went on digging. This is
in the dune belt for decades. Hollywood extreme, but typical.
Father Polzer mentions two of the most
outrageously vandalized missions in our
area—Cocospora and Guavavi. At Cocos-
pora they are now chipping the few remain-

SALMON RIVER TRIP! ing bits of painted plaster. At Guavavi the

Wingfields, who own the land, have tried
valiantly to defend the melting adobe walls.
But when I visited it with them just a few
IDAHO PRIMITIVE AREA weeks ago, they were aghast to see two
fine new holes dug deep into the founda-
tion. The dirt had been thrown into the dig-
gings of earlier holes.
Articles like Father Polzer's are much
Per Person needed. Unfortunately I am afraid mis-
This 6 day trip on the Prim- sion treasure seekers are basically illiterate
itive Salmon River includes: and contemptuous of history.
food, transportation from
Stanley, and all necessary WILL ROGERS, JR.
equipment for a river ex- Beverly Hills, Calif.
pedition.
The Salmon River offers:
good fishing, exciting white Small Game Tormentors . . .
water, excellent picture tak-
ing, and a leisurely vacation To the Editor: On a recent trip to the
I you'll never forget. The two desert, we met some people who had cap-
October runs will be for tured 15 chuckawallas, a red racer snake,
s
=*"*ss- steelhead fishing. and two collared lizards. They were plan-
ning to take these harmless creatures back
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 . .. .

THE HILLS OF ALABAMA

California

ALABAMA HILLS ROCK MASSES. CAR IS ON TUTTLE CREEK ROAD.

T WO-HUNDRED miles north of

Los Angeles, on the arid desert
between the High Sierra and
the Inyo Mountain range, is a unique
they appear as one homogeneous
mass; close-up, they run the gamut ol
contorted shapes and natural colossi.
armament shipped from England,
sailed to American shores with Cap-
tain Raphael Semmes commanding
under a commission from the Con-
But always, sooner or later comes the
behemothic rock formation with an question: "The Alabama Hills? How federate government, and—as the
incongruously out-of-state name—the come that name in California?" Alabama—carried on a career of hea-
Alabama Hills. vy destruction against the Union.
The answer has its roots in Civil
They are the jumping off place to War history, originating with a group This havoc on the seas continued
the Whitney Portal, where the climb of Owens Valley pioneers whose sym- until June 19, 1864, when a crack
to Mt. Whitney commences. They pathies were with the South. In 1862 warship of the Union, the Kearsarge,
arc, also, a fall-winter-spring mecca a vessel was built in the shipyards of caught up with the Alabama off the
foi countless people who wander Great Britain, a declared neutral in Cherbourg coast of France.
among their labyrinthine granite the War of the States; and despite
paths, camp in their grottoes, climb The imminent battle of the two
objections of the United States ships created a day of great excite-
their granitic heights, and marvel at government, which designated the
'their fantastic forms and their sim- ment for the French, many of whose
ship a man-o-war, it was allowed to
ilar-dissimilarities. From a distance reach the Azores, was outfitted with sympathies were with the South. A
special "train of pleasure" made up
of some fifteen-hundred people was
run over the Paris-Cherbourg rail-
By WARREN and BARBARA TRANSUE way to the battle site, where the ocean
ALABAMA HILLS (continued)

cliffs afforded a natural grandstand. group of miners, cattlemen and wood-

Amid cheers from the French audi- sawers a few miles to the north of
ence, the battle was on. the newly named hills. They were
The Alabama's days of triumph located at Todds, known today as
were over. The Southern man-o-war Grays Meadows. Staunch Union sym-
was sunk, and the defiant Captain pathizers, these men commemorated
Semmes threw his sword into the sea the Kearsarge's victory by naming
as a last gesture. The French, in spite a mountain pass to the west, "Kear-
of their Southern sympathies, then sarge Pass." They went a step further
graciously allowed the victorious and called the mountains beyond the
Kearsarge to refit in their supposedly pass "Kearsarge Pinnacles," then gave
neutral port. the name "Kearsarge" to a little town
five miles east of Independence.
It was at this time that the group Later, with the advent of a substan-
of Owens Valley pioneers, in admira- tial gold strike, they named the dis-
tion of the havoc wrought by the trict from the Alabama Hills north
Alabama against the Union, named to Big Pine Creek and from the Sier-
the grotesque and weird rock forma- ra on the west to the Owens Valley
tion "The Alabama Hills." on the east, "The Kearsarge Mining
This was too much for another District."

LISTING ROCKS THAT BEAR THE NAME . .

International repercussions that

lasted a number of years followed
the Alabama incident, and in 1871
the United States brought suit against
Great Britain for the depredations
wrought by the Alabama and her sis-
ter ships, the Florida, the Shenan-
doah, and others.
The meetings of the arbitration
board were infrequent and long
drawn-out. However, in September,
1872, the tribunal awarded damages
of $15,000,000 for the depredations
committed by the British-built men-
o-war.
This action became known as "The
Alabama Arbitration" and was one
of the first international claims for
damages by one nation in behalf of
its citizens against another nation.
So, historically, the Alabama Hills
commemorate a little-known but im-
portant action of the Civil War. But
in their own right they are a virtual
labyrinth for wonderment and amaze-
ment. And though, as yet, they have
.not attained any official government
recognition, they have become a pop-
ular Western entity full of unique
attractions.
The Alabama Hills lie several
miles west of the little Sierra town of
 From a distance, the Alabama Hills numerous strata which differ in
appear as huge upthrust mounds on width but are usually up-ended at
which thousands of round balls, right angles to the earth.
spheroids, and angular pieces are im-
beded. Viewed close-up, each is mam- With the exception of an earth-
moth; many become ponderous cari- quake in 1790 chronicled by the
catures of the human and animal Paiute Indians and the major dis-
world. There are granite caves, wind- turbance of March 26, 1872, which
ing defiles, pyramids, sculptures — brought disaster to the Lone Pine
almost anything one has seen some- area, the unique Alabama Hills
where in the world, only here on an have slumbered silently for years.
immense scale. The spring flora is Today, the Alabama Hills extend
an astounding contradiction to its a quiet but awe-inspiring welcome
summer aridity, and a spectacularly to travelers into the High Sierra des-
gigantic species of bush lupine flour- ert region. And the breathtaking
ishes on the scene with a grandeur lock formations will in all probability
to match the granite giants. continue to fascinate many genera-
One peculiar feature of these tions to come with their imaginative
mounds is that they are composed of "forms in fantasy." ///

. . . OF A SHIP SUNK OFF FRANCE

Lone Pine, along the approach to Mt.

Whitney, and without doubt they
constitute one of the most fantastic
jumbles of upthrust rocks on earth.
Word-of-mouth authority states the
formation to be the oldest rock mass
of its kind in the world. This mis-
conception had its roots in the dec-
laiation of an English geologist
many years ago that they were
"earth's oldest formation." Subse-
quent geological studies tend to re-
fme the Englishman's theory and to
place the rocks' origin somewhere in
the middle of the geologic scale:
namely, in the Triassic Age, or age
of reptiles, with traces of the first
or Archaean Age showing here and
there as a result of the cataclysmic
repetition of volcanic action which
has periodically changed the face of
the Sierra and desert landscapes, in-
cluding Death Valley.
The Hills have long been a para-
dise for geologists, nature-lovers and
campers and hikers who scramble in
delight and awe among its giant
formations. Motion picture compan-
ies, use the area regularly as a location
for horse, operas, desert sequences
and North African "atmosphere." THE EVENING VIEW OF THE HIGH SIERRAS IN THE DISTANCE
WATER
. . . giver of life
 N LONG AGO days when desert always he took about the same the lower Colorado River. Each even-
I journeys were made, for the most
part, with horse and wagon or on
foot with a burro to carry one's bed-
amount of time for it; the same
might be said about his departure
into the brush.
ing he came out onto the sandy-sur-
faced opening in front of the camp,
ambling across it at near 7:15 while
roll and provisions, we generally tried on his early evening hunting journey.
to camp at nightfall near some well, I noticed somewhat the same punc- He maneuvered rather slowly or sat
waterhole or streamside. tuality of movements of a big Colo- very still at times so that with aid of
rado River Toad (Bufo alvarius), my lantern, which he never seemed
These oasis-site camps gave us that enormous Bufo that inhabits much to mind, I was able to get a
many unusual opportunities to ob- the damp tree-filled bottoms along Continued on page 25
seive the wildlife associated in one
way or other with them. Today,
many of these water sources have
been tapped for the irrigation of
fields and for domestic use, but still
some remain and are well worth visit-
After the Rains-Desert "Shellfish"
ing.
In the early spring of 1920 I spent
O F ALL THE strange and unusual
things which the desert yields,
shrimp and clam are at the top of
and ponds that dry up completely for
most of the year. The life-cycle is com-
pleted in a surprisingly short time, and
some days camping in the willow, the list. To find these "shellfish" in a the eggs remain in the dried mud until
normally dry desert wash taxes the im- the next period of rainfall. Tadpole
mesquite and cotton wood thickets agination — yet, it is usually in such shrimp have hatched from eggs in dried
along the Colorado River, that unique places that these creatures appear from mud kept on a laboratory shelf for as
and-land stream isolated so definite- time to time when nature provides the long as 15 years, 'c
ly by its broad desert boundaries both proper ingredients.
Just what chain of circumstances
on the east and west. It was a most I first observed these odd denizens causes the eggs to hatch and mature is
interesting and revealing fortnight while on a routine patrol in the Anza- not fully known. Certainly temperature
bringing me into close view of many Borrego country. Less than a week had plays an important role; and only the
passed since a summer thunderstorm summer rains have thus far brought
of nature's small, animal children. had poured a torrent of water down the forth the shrimp of Fish Creek.—By
Each morning I was greeted with rich Fish Creek Wash, and I was on the look- GEORGE W. LEETCH, ranger, Anza-
songs and varied call notes of river- out for possible storm damage. Borrego Desert State Park. ///
bank-inhabiting birds, and the strid- At the head of one of the tributary
ul itions and wee sounds of cicadas, washes I left the patrol jeep to check
grasshoppers and flies. In the sunlit some tinajas (potholes) which usually
contain water after heavy rainfall. Sure
willow tops I saw and heard Red- enough, they were full of water—and
winged blackbirds, Lucy Warblers, strange tiny creatures freely swimming
charming small Lazuli Buntings, about! There were two kinds of ani-
Lark Buntings and occasional Ari- mals in the pools; one looked like a
tadpole, the other a clam.
zona Least Vireos. The Lucy Warb-
ler (named after Miss Lucy Baird, Thin shells cover the backs of the tad-
sister of Spencer F. Baird of the pole shrimp, which are larger than the
clam shrimp. Pink undersides and flut-
Smithsonian Institution) is exclus- tering legs are exposed as the tadpole
ively a desert bird seldom, except as shrimp float, sometimes bottom-side-up,
a stray, being found elsewhere. It is or dive into the depths of the rainwater
pools.
sometimes called the Mesquite Warb-
An Anza-Borrego Ranger inspects a pothole—
ler from its close association with this The clam shrimp is covered with
natural habitat for desert shrimp (center pho-
tree. hinged bivalved shells, but here the re-
semblance to a true clam ends. Careful to) and clam (lower photo—greatly enlarged).
inspection reveals legs and antennae,
At this charming "willow camp", and this creature's mode of locomotion
as I chose to call it, I had a visit is most un-clamlike. When not resting
from a Roadrunner the very first on the bottom of the pond, the clam
shrimp dart through the water in speedy
morning. Once out in an open sand- starts and stops.
patch, he took to preening himself a
bit then lying down leisurely on his Both the tadpole shrimp (Notostra-
cans) and the clam shrimp (Concho-
side, relaxing his feathers and warm- stracans) are of the subclass of crusta-
ing himself in the sun's genial rays. cea known as branchiopoda. The name
Alter a few minutes of this he got up, literally means "gill-feet", and is des-
criptive of the numerous jointed legs
thoroughly shook the sand from his which contain gills. These legs are used
feathers and ran, tail drooping, into for breathing as well as swimming.
the willows. The branchiopoda are the most prim-
itive of the crustaceans. Fossil finds in-
Some birds and mammals seem to dicate that they date back in time for
have some sort of a time-clock built millions of years. That they can per-
petuate themselves under what appears
into them, and that evidently was to be the most adverse of environments
very much the case with this bird. seems nothing short of miraculous.
Subsequently, every morning within As was the case in Fish Creek, these
a minute or two of 8:10, he arrived animals are found in temporary pools
for his preening and sunbath and
 he is lucky. This is definitely not a
get-rich-quick business.
That evening we enjoyed the
Governor's Reception. The magnifi-
cent white and gold Reception Room
was rich with oil portraits and crim-
son velvet drapes. The "Juarez
Room," adjoining it, contained a
glass case with life-size figures. One
was the First President of the Repub-
lic of Mexico, Benito Juarez, as he re-
fused clemency for the deposed em-
peror, Maximilian. The other figure,
Misadventures and that of a beautiful young woman, the
Princess de Salm Salm, knelt at his

Gay Times when feet in posture of entreaty and des-

pair.

180 Mineral Collectors Flash-bulbs popped in the Recep-

tion Room as news photographers
ranged back and forth, snapping
invade Old Mexico. groups in conversation or being pre-
sented to the Governor. Refresh-
ments of a potent pink liquid and
delicious little hot enchiladas were
served. As we left the palace each of
us was presented with a gift, with the
byVlVIENNEM.DOSSE compliments of His Excellency. Every
lady received a fiber handbag con-
taining a miniature sombrero, a half-
pint of fiery mescal, and a package of
"Tuna Cheese," which is neither fish
nor cheese, but candy made from
T HE STUDY and collecting of
minerals is an absorbing hobby
—and there is no doubt that my
husband and I are completely and
trips. We were informed that people
in the city dressed more formally than
in our Southwestern states, and we
were reminded that we were to be
cactus fruit. The men were given
brilliantly striped bags with identical
contents.
irrevocably absorbed. Thus it was guests of the Governor at a reception. The next day was the big day (we
that when the recent call went out
The city ol San Luis Potosi lies in had no idea just how big it would
lor pilgrims to lour the rich mining
a shallow valley between high moun- turn out to be) when we would visit
areas ol San Luis Potosi in Mexico,
tain ranges. We arrived at dusk, amid a location impossible to reach by car,
we hastened to join the "Operation
the gaiety and confusion of a carnival but well-known by reputation to min-
Rockhound" expedition.
which filled the streets with bands, eral collectors throughout the world.
The tour was arranged by Warren floats and maskers. The little village of Charcas is in-
Jones, a miner living in San Luis Po- habited by miners, many of them em-
losi; Bob and Sara Dowell, mineral The next morning began a series ployed at a big lead-zinc mine oper-
dealers of Edinburg, Texas; Roberto of trips to the mines. A particularly ated by the American Smelting and
Cuadros, President of the Miners As- interesting time was spent at Tepe- Refining Company. That mine is not
sociation; and Alphonso Torre, Sec- tate, high in the mountains. Here the open to visitors now, but many min-
retary of Planifications and Promo- men of the village recover tin ore eral collections feature the magnifi-
tions (!) lor the Stale of San Luis from a dry streambecl by a method cent calcite and danburite specimens
Poiosi. It had the blessings of the resembling gold-panning. The sand found there. We would visit a small
Governor, Prof. Don Manuel Davila. glitters with bright little topaz crys- privately operated mine about nine
tals, but the tin ore looks like bits of miles from Charcas, to hunt for red
One hundred and eighty persons cinnabar crystals in white calcite.
signed up for the trip. It was impor- dull smooth rock, seldom larger than
a fingernail. The pans used are There is no road to Charcas or to
tant that this invading army make the big mine. Access is by rail, though
a good impression, so we were urged shallow wooden bowls into which is
scooped sand and water, which the a road runs from a siding on the
to conduct ourselves with dignity and main rail line to Charcas a distance
courtesy. Ladies were asked to not miner agitates with his hands. All
water must be carried a half-mile of five or six miles.
wear slacks, pedal-pushers or shorts
on the street, though these get-ups from the village reservoir. If a miner There is no public parking at the
would be permissible on the field- finds one or two nuggets in each pan, railway station in San Luis Potosi,
14 / / S
so we were told to leave our cars in supplies of drinking water. Far ahead "We want agate." Warren Jones told
the hotel parking lots and walk or we could see the other buses waiting these agate-hunters to take three of
take taxis to the station. In order to while a stone fence was pulled down the lour buses, detailing one of his
arrive on time we awakened at 5:30 to make a way for them. A long wind- miners to lead the group. They
a.m. To our dismay no cafes were ing track climbed slowly to where would go back to Charcas and out
open, so we went without breakfast. the buses could go no farther. The in another direction to the agate-
Some hotels had prepared box lun- last half-mile we must do on foot. fields. Soon there were only 18 of us
ches for their guests, but ours had left.
not. All of us were dressed in rough "Everything will be perfectly safe
in the buses," we were told, so, leav- An hour or so later, Mr. Jones
clothes and burdened with bottles of said it was time for us to start back
drinking water, cameras, coats, col- ing coats, water-bottles, lunches, even
purses, on the seats, the crowd piled to Charcas. Collectors and miners
lecting bags and rock hammers. gathered up their tools and collect-
out and climbed toward the mine.
Warren Jones and Mr. and Mrs. ing bags and we picked our way
Blasts were set off for the benefit down the steep trail to the bus.
Dowell had bought tickets for the of the camera-fans. Even before the
group on the previous day, and ar- smoke had cleared away the rock- But there was no bus! We were
ranged for two special coaches at- hounds were scrambling up the steep stranded—nine miles from the road;
tached to the regular train on the hillside. The mine is a small one; a 15 from the siding where our rail-
Mexico City-Monterrey run, to ac- hole about thirty feet across and way coaches waited. The train was
commodate us. twenty deep, with short horizontal due to pick up the coaches about six
Though departure was scheduled tunnels following the veins of cinna- o'clock, ft was already after three.
for 7 a.m., the train did not leave un- bar along seams in the limestone. The situation held serious aspects.
til nearly eight o'clock. News photog- Seven of our group were women.
The blasts had thrown out much
raphers and feature writers for the None of us was young; none accus-
fragmented material. Those who
papers were busy. Everyone was in tomed to high altitude. One wo-
couldn't get down into the mine had
high spirits. I walked to the front- man was recently out of a hospital,
an opportunity to gather attractive
end of the train where the Mexican and her feet were already blistered.
pieces, though it is doubtful if many
farm-families were making a picnic
even knew what to look for, as cries But when there is only one thing
of their train trip. A blind man play-
of "Is this it?" echoed back and forth. to do . . . you do it!
ed the violin for a group of laughing
singers; young women sold tiny eggs The sun was hot; most of the hunt- We started walking, relying on the
and other food from baskets. Small ers soon tired and began to shout, continued on page 28
children staggered solemnly up and
down the aisles. Everyone was having
a gay time as the train clattered on-
ward.
After about two hours, we reached
the siding near Charcas. Here our
coaches were left on a side-track, to
be picked up by the evening train
for our return.
The Miners Union had four small
buses waiting for us, and we climbed
aboard for our trip to the cinnabar
mine.
The road from the siding to Char-
cas is an uphill pull and narrow,
though paved. One bus developed
mechanical trouble, so we waited in
Charcas until another could be
brought. No more pavement now,
just rocky dusty trails. The buses wal-
lowed along, sometimes descending
barrancas with sides so steep the pas-
sengers had to climb out on foot.
Our bus had its tailpipe smashed
shut on a boulder; after that was
given emergency repairs with rock
hammers, the engine boiled dry. The
radiator was replenished from our TIN MINERS AT TEPETATE

_1 i nr n / r\
 THREE
NEVADA
SKETCHES
By Choral Pepper

N A WARM summer's day last year, straw-hatted

O women clung to the arms of their shirt-sleeved
men and climbed a steep embankment to the
parapet of newly constructed Shroeder Dam in Beaver
Dam State Park. It was the day of dedication for a great-
ly desired recreational attraction in Lincoln County, the
first project of its kind in the state of Nevada.
From a podium atop the Dam, Nevada State Park
Commissioner Dr. Leslie H. Gould alerted his listeners
to a necessity for developing such areas now during the
state's early growth. "At its present rate," he said,
"we could find ourselves faced with the same dilemma
as Southern California which suddenly discovered that
the only desirable beach areas available to the public
cost $10,000 an acre."
A return visit to Beaver Dam State Park on a recent
weekend proved one thing: Those crowded Californians
ought to see this!
Rollicking streams leaped with trout, hordes of excit-
ing rocks lay undetected, and wild growth all but oblit-
erated the winding single-way road. The park, which
1 ineo
 PRIMEVAL PARK
GIM WAH
MISPLACED SEQUOIAS

color the scene. This is a wild game preserve and fire-

arms are not allowed, but deer hunters do make camp
near the park boundaries.
The road to Beaver Dam State Park leads east from
Highway 93 at Caliente. From the highway to the park,
the visitors must drive an hour and 15 minutes of poor-
ly graded road. Once inside the park it is necessary to
ford a few shallow streams. Although rough, it is pos-
sible for any make of auto to tour the park, but there
are a number of places which can be reached only by
four-wheel drive.
After a seemingly endless expanse of rocky soil, occa-
sionally broken by stretches of sand and sage, the road
from Caliente enters a pigmy juniper forest. Gradually,
as the altitude increases, the scraggly trees grow taller,
exposing twisted naked limbs begging the skies for rain.
It is quite impossible to believe that ahead into infin-
ity lies an abundant forest lush with growth, but after
20 miles, the tall, straight pines appear, and- squawber-
ries bear fruit in patches along the ground. Higher
Still, undergrowth temporarily ceases. Isolated junipers
spring from barren wind-sifted soil like giant Ming trees
stuck into beds of sand.
Here arroyos cut deeply into the earth, and moun-
tainous slabs of rock jut above the terrain. Oak trees
join the junipers and pinyons. Pine cones lie scattered
among ferns. Frogs pipe from stones in the racing brook,
and higher still, Shroeder Dam imprisons water to pro-
duce a lake, spewing forth calculated amounts to join
other waters from a fountainhead of mountain springs.
There is much to do here besides fish and dream by a
stream. Because of the area's benign clime, early geo-
logical formations and signs are well preserved. Petro-
glyphs so ancient that experts are unable to classify
them occur in this vicinity. Indian artifacts, dating
when completely developed will contain 2199 acres, had from the time when Beaver Dam marked a favorite
only 20 car-loads of visitors—and this, according to fish- hunting ground, have been found, and beautiful fossils
erman Phil Hulse of Pioche, was the most "crowded" he are everywhere.
had ever seen the area, and he visits it often. '
Rockhounds find this virgin territory. Our son filled
Here in this untamed, secluded country, is just a marble bag with Apache tears (obsidian) scooped
about everything an outdoorsman would want, except- from the bed of a stream. Jasper, agate and wonderstone
ing a good road (but, if the road was good, the camp- have also been gathered beside the park's springs.
siies would be crowded!). Campgrounds nestle into
every bend of the crooked stream. You could lie in a Best of all, for those whose nature's demand a peri-
sleeping-bag and pluck trout to fry on one of the grills odic one-ness with the wilderness, Beaver Dam State
furnished by the Fish and Game Department for the Park is secluded and serene. This may change when
use of campers. Restrooms, too, are available, but every- Lincoln County acquires funds to improve the access
thing else goes strictly with nature. Possibly when the road, but in the meantime, visitors will find rare ex-
road is widened, trailers will be permitted into the park, perience in this lonely area.
but now nothing more than an occasional tent or pick-
up-camper indicates man has invaded this lonely forest.
HE YEAR was 1916. A shy petite child from San
One of Nevada's largest deer herds thrives among
gorges and spires erodeil from the park's sedimentary
rock formations. In the dark, mountain lion stalk their
T Francisco's Chinatown, Gim was chosen by her
father's Tong to. become the bride of Tom Wah, a
man more than four times her age, and newly pro-
supper near waterholes, while coyote serenade the night. moted from cook to boarding-house manager of the rich
During daylight hours, the flying manes of mustang Nevada Prince Mine near Pioche. When she came, she
spoke not a word of English. At the mine she attended
school with other children her age. It was difficult to
interpret her lessons, but she did the best she could by
translating from story illustrations. It was two years be-
fore she understood any English at all.
During her early years in the rough, tough camp—so
"GIM IS KNOWN BY ALL LOCAL SMALL-FRY AS A SOFT TOUCH . . ."
different from the gentle atmosphere she'd known in
San Francisco—Gim suffered every humiliation and fear
known to a bewildered child. But through it, and be-
cause of it, she gradually came to the most important
understanding of her life.
She learned that others couldn't make her adjust-
ments for her; that to find any kind of happiness in
her strangely fated life, she'd have to acquire the
strength to stand alone. With increasing maturity, she
determined to adapt herself to her strange desert en-
vironment.
Today, managing her cafe located off U.S. Highway
93 between Pioche and Caliente, Gim Wah is more
than a local tradition. She has touched the hearts of
personages from all over the world who participated
in the important operation of the Combined Metals
Reduction Company and Caselton Mill during World
War II and were entertained in her dining room, in a
part of the village built to accommodate this largest lead-
silver mill in the United States.
The mill ceased operation eight years ago, but Mrs.
Wah's friends continue to visit when they pass through
Nevada . . . friends such as author Clarence Buddington
Kelland (who once set a story there) , Union Pacific
President George Stoddard, Uranium King Charles
Steen, New York City Chase National Bank President
Jerimiah Millbank, and the late Duke D'Atri, Prince of
Aragon, to name a few.
Former President Herbert Hoover, who is an official
of the mine, and his family celebrated many of Mr.
Hoover's birthdays in Mrs. Wah's dining room.
What is there about Mrs. Wah that inspired the Cal-
iente Lion's Club, which meets in her cafe, to award her
their first and only feminine honorary membership?
Surely it was more than her pixie grin and strawberry
pie.
And what is it that inspired the Professional and
Business Women's Club of neighboring Pioche to invite
her into its organization? Certainly not her popularity
in Caliente, since Mrs. Wah stands alone as a harmon-
ious link between the fiercely competitive towns.
To those away from Nevada, she is a cherished friend.
To those of her community, she is more. Her relation-
ship with neighbors and friends is built upon respect
for Gim Wah's personal dignity, admiration for her in-
dividuality, and trust in her proved integrity.
In a charming sing-song voice reminiscent of an Ori-
ental lullaby, Gim Wah converts English into a unique-
ly understandable language of her own and tells of her
life at the mine.
Before the big boarding house burned down and Tom
Wah died, she helped him cook and serve 400 men in
four shifts. They raised their own vegetables and fruit
then as she continues to do to this day. To provide BEAVER DAM PARK - VIRGIN TERRITORY FOR ROCKHOUNDS
variety in the menus under austere conditions of that OTANISTS FROM a number of Western universi-
time demanded the utmost in ingenuity and self-suf-
ficiency. B ties have puzzled over a grove of seven tall trees
nestled in a mountain valley 19 miles west of the
picturesque mining town of Pioche. Normally, a grove
Lessons Gim learned in Tom Wah's kitchen have
related themselves to living as she finds it today. of trees in a mountain valley wouldn't present an enig-
When the present mill went silent and the mine's ma, but when the trees happen to be Sequoia Giganteas
stable population dropped to zero, she might have sob- native to an area 300 miles away, experts furrow their
bed that a dining room in a mine without work force brows.
had no place to go but broke. She could have become These trees (referred to as "The Big Trees" by local
a ward of the state. Instead, she enlarged her home- citizens who frequently picnic under them) are more
grown garden, and set out establishing the best public commonly found in Yosemite and Sequoia national
dining room between Ely and Las Vegas. parks, and adjacent areas in California. There the Big
Other forced adjustments have marked Gim's life. Trees grow in well-defined groves of from four to as
One day, long ago, Tom Wah announced he would many as 3500 trees.
take her to visit members of her family who lived in How did seven of these giants happen to establish
China. While there, Gim gave birth to their only child, themselves so far from "home"? The experts can only
a son. Under the quota system, it was impossible to re- make some educated guesses.
turn with him to the United States. In fact, it took
Senatorial influence on the part of mine officials to get While the Bristlecone Pine is now considered the
Gim and Tom back home. Confident that later they "oldest living thing on earth," the Sequoia (former
could send for their baby, they left him with relatives. holder of this title) does reach ages of 3000 years and
Gim Wah never again saw her baby. more. Most mature Big Trees vary in age from 400 to
2000 years.
Possibly to compensate for this emptiness in her life,
Gim is known by all local small-fry as the soft touch Whereas most plant life is subject to decay and dis-
for free bubble gum and popsicles in the area. Children integration, the Sequoia is strongly resistant to the at-
for miles around pay her frequent visits—often afoot, tack of insects, fungal parasites, and to fire because
knowing Missy Wah is also good for a free ride back of the presence of tannin and the absence of resin pitch
home. in its structure. But, age and resistance are not the ans-
wers. These trees are not "survivors" of a prehistoric
Her American citizenship is her proudest possession era. Three thousand years is a relatively short time in
and voting is her proudest accomplishment. Once when the history of the earth and its inhabitants.
asked for a political opinion regarding Nevada Demo-
cratic Senator Pat McCarran, she said, "Him velly nice And, we can discount the possibility of the seeds blow-
man, yes, velly good friend. Still, I Republican." ing over from the California groves to the Nevada site.
To Mrs. Wah, it isn't important whether or not it's Mountains rising to 13,000 feet lie between.
expedient for her to admit her political affiliation. Pioche and Yosemite are both at a 38-degree latitude;
When she feel an issue is consequential, she studies it both are at 500 feet elevation (the Big Trees occur
thoroughly, makes a decision, and then takes a stand. from 5000 to 8000 feet elevation). Also, both areas nur-
That is why her community respects her. Some may not ture a healthy ground cover of scrub oak and other coni-
agree with her, but Mrs. Wah is not a nonentity. She ferous trees such as pinyon pine. But, here the similarity
is a woman of conviction. in areas ends.
Mrs. Wah runs her business with an abacus, which Whereas both Sequoia National Park and Yosemite
she maneuvers with the speed of an IBM machine. have vast areas of wooded growth with many fountain-
Her friends eagerly await the day she tangles with an heads to feed the soil, the Nevada Sequoia grove lies
innocent tax examinerl in a minute canyon surrounded by desert lands studded
Mrs. Wah's cafe is as unpretentious as its prices, but with juniper, sage and cacti. The Nevada area's winters
her piping hot superbly cooked cuisine makes the short are mild, but do bring enough snow to maintain the
detour from Highway 93 worthwhile. Because every- trees. There are thousands of locales in the West, closer
thing is cooked to order, she prefers that southbound in both distance and physical characteristics to Yosemite
motorists announce their arrival by telephone from and Sequoia National Park, where the Sequoias are un-
Pioche and those northbound call from Caliente. known.
Her famous Chinese feast, which she prepares only The most logical explanation, it would seem, is that
for parties of four or more and serves on elegant ances- an earthquake or other upheaval at the Nevada site re-
tral china, requires a full day's notice to prepare. Those leased dormant seeds and permitted them to grow
who have enjoyed it say that as a gourmet experience in an area where thousands — or even millions — of
it may only be compared to her incomparable straw- years before, a Sequoia forest had flourished. Until
berry pies—made with berries cultivated in her patch. scientists deliver the final answer to this riddle, the
"earthquake theory" is the one most people hereabouts
But whether or not one ever dines at Mrs. Wah's, subscribe to.
there's much to learn from this woman who has the
dignity and courage to live by principle; this woman But, why bother the head about theories? The im-
who knows that others stand by only if first you've portant thing to do is pack a picnic lunch and head for
learned to stand alone. She doesn't proselyte these find- an afternoon under the Sequoias—in eastern Nevada.
ings. What she does is prove them by example. ///
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. . . this happy combination is sure to please any girl, and Kaye Ellen Oertle was no ex-
ception. Kaye Ellen had accompanied her dad, writer-inventor Lee Oertle, to the desert
near La Quinta, Calif., where Lee wanted to take some action photos of the new "go-
anywhere" machine he had developed.

The "work part" of the trip over, Kaye Ellen and some of her fellow "models" turned
to the more exciting business of gathering-up a few pieces of the pottery shards which lie
about the dunes in heavy concentrations. The local Cahuilla Indians apparently spent
a great deal of time around
the clay playas manufactur-
ing pots and jars.

Running and squealing, stoop-

ing and exclaiming, Kaye
Ellen and her little friends
had a grand time seeing who
could find the largest piece
of pottery; or who came up
with a shard containing a
bit of design. It was grand
adventure.

The color photo of Kaye

Ellen was made by Dennis
Holmes of Riverside, Calif.,
who is shown at work in the
black-and-white picture at
the right. Lee Oertle's dune
buggy and the boy treasure
hunters (who are busy chew-
ing chunks of ice) were not
half so appealing to color-
photographer Holmes as were
Kaye Ellen's eye-dazzling cos-
tume and triumphant smile.
 Coal Mine Canyon is in die
heart of Navajoland, east of
Tuba City near the foot of
the Hopi mesas. The roads are
now good asphalt, and the
rodeo grounds are within view
of the pavement.
One main rodeo is held each
year—usually in July—but
other smaller get-togethers oc-
cur from time to time during
the summer. Dates for such
events are seldom announced
far in advance—as is the case
for the many other round-ups
held throughout the vast reser-
vation. Persons wishing to be
WELCOME notified of specific rodeo dates
should send their queries to
the Navajo Tribal Council,
TOCOALMINECANYON Window Rock, Arizona.
The rodeo is an "open social

RODEO event" for the Navajos, and

the white visitor is welcome.
However, a camera should be
used cautiously and
courteously.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY FRANK A. TINKER

Navajos are excellent

riders, and among
their possessions the
horse is apt to rank
first. A boy may be
given a colt when he
is old enough to ride
—at seven or eight—
and the horse will be-
come more of a pet
to him than a dog
might be to a
Michigan schoolboy.
 Grasping the steer by both horns, Ben Yazzie Begay tries to rassle it down.
The timer (left) stands by with flag upraised. The incongruity of the
Navajos crowding along the rails in their pick-up trucks, model 1962, and
their long sateen dresses, model 1887, is apparent only to strangers.

Spectators may come from fifty to

sixty rough miles away. This pick-up bears
California plates; its owner home
for the rodeo.
COAL MINE CANYON RODEO (continued)

A young family group

watches the action—all
but one.

Beauty is not absent from this event.

There is nothing fancy about the re-

freshment stands at the rodeo.
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Southwestern Presswork" the other side. Rest periods were short though coats had fallen to the floor
because the sun was dropping fast. and been trampled and smaller items
Most of us had no breath to spare for kicked under the seats. At last we
I? conversation, but one man encourag-
ed himself by loudly rehearsing just
started, with just time to make the
siding before the train was due. How
what he would say to whoever was good those coaches looked, and how
responsible for our plight. At last gratefully we settled into our seats!
his canvas shoe brushed a cholla cac-
tus. This gave him a change of topic, The train was late. "As usual," said
Books H®, though not of temper. We got a little
tired of him!
the knowledgeable ones. My hus-
band, fearing I was about to collapse
Pamphlets We had been walking almost two
from exhaustion, secured a half-liter
of tequila; someone produced a lime
Resort Folders hours, and the women were faltering. and salt; and I was initiated into the
The men had estimated we had come manner of combining these ingre-
about five miles. dients. Though the taste was horrible
Color Production Was that smoke or dust rising from and the liquid ate its way through
*We offer these important extras to the barranca ahead? "Keep moving, the bottom of paper cups, it did re-
authors who are considering the per- it's probably just cattle." But it lax cramped muscles and calmed a
sonal publishing of their fluttering pulse.
work: critical pre-pub- wasn't. Two small cars appeared. The
lication analysis, print- Chief of Police of Charcas had come It was after nine o'clock when the
ing craftsmanship, to look for us! Somehow we all
retail - wholesale squeezed into the two cars—tools and train finally arrived and we were on
outlets, publicity,
bags of minerals were tossed in—and our way. Twenty minutes before mid-
and business in- night it pulled into the station at San
tegrity. nobody quibbled about "together- Luis Potosi. Wearily we detrained.
For free ness." We were just very, very glad We were loaded down with sacks of
estimates write: to be "picked-up by the police." rocks, coats, cameras, water-bottles
DESERT The buses waited in the plaza at (long since empty), prospector-ham-
PRINTERS, Inc. Charcas, surrounded by most of the mers and other tools. We were tired,
Palm Desert, Calif. local populace who were doing a hungry, thirsty, dirty, disheveled and
brisk business selling mineral speci- disgruntled.
 Threading our way down the This was the Mayor's party for us.
crowded platform, we were met by The master of ceremonies spoke PORTABLE
a string orchestra, playing enthusias- English quite well, and gave a few
tically. Hands reached out and lifted words of explanation as the first of SLAB
the bags of specimens from our the entertainers appeared. This was and—
shoulders and out of our hands. We a troupe of dancers from the State
couldn't understand what was hap- Theatre. They specialized in the TRIM
pening until we saw the bags tossed ancient Aztec Ritual Dances, to the
into a pick-up truck guarded by po- authentic music. Never had we seen SAW
lice, and were told, "O.K., O.K." We such gorgeous costumes, filling the
were guided into a group and ser- stage with swirls of color. Feather $fO9.SO .
enaded, then the orchestra leader headdresses fully five feet tall, feath- Less blade and motor
urged us to shout "Arribe, Mr. Silva." er cloaks, and kilts helped tell the Light, compact and strong, for use in
We complied, waveringly. legends of a vanished culture in trailer, apartment or for field trips.
A couple of loaded cars and the their solemn ballet, "The Eagle
Dance."
pick-up truck went by; the orchestra, SAW BLADES
still playing, marched smartly off (I While we watched the dancers, Covington, supercharged,
never did find out how the bass-fid- reversible blades. More
plates of food appeared before us. diamonds for longer life.
dler managed to march and play at Ah, FOOD! Little hot enchiladas, Sizes from 6" to 36".
See your Covington deal-
the same time) —and without quite bean-curd, corn chips, sweet tamales er or send today for free
knowing how it happened, we found catalog. (Usually .75)
filled with fruit. Bottles of beer All Covington equipment
ourselves stumbling along behind, came dripping from the cooling tubs sold under i r o n c l a d
guarantee.
blistered heels, trembling knees and for the men. The ladies were offered
all, through the dark streets. a fruit-drink in odd-shaped pottery liAPIDARY
It seemed like miles, but was prob- cups. How good it all tasted! ENGINEERING
SINCE 1848 CORP.
ably about 10 blocks, to our destina- I lost count of the musical groups First and Highway 99
tion. We had arrived at a plaza who performed for us. Singers, in Redlands D, Calif.
ablaze with lights and festooned with dresses glittering with sequins, made
paper streamers. Thousands of well- the crowd laugh and shout, or charm-
dressed, laughing, cheering Potosinos ed it with sentimental airs. The M. C.
crowded it. We were guided to a re- was a talented comedian and dancer UNDISCOVERED WEALTH!
ceiving line and as we reached it, a and kept the program moving at a Buried loot, coins, silver, gold,
military band burst into the strains lively pace. There was a breath-tak- jewelry, battle relics! Transistor
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 A SILVER ANNIVERSARY BONUS FEATURE
Reprinted from DESERT'S issue for February, 1939

jindiruj the T^rc^erhial/JVeedL

ON MANLY'S By Charles Kelly
TRAIL TO Typical of DESERTs finest contributions to in-
creased understanding and appreciation of Southwestern
history is this story by respected Utah historian Charles
Kelly. Fifty of his articles appeared in DESERT during

DEATH this publication's first decade. He traveled widely

throughout the Great Basin, sharing with readers the
fruits of his searching and varied interest. Kelly de-
tailed the personal discovery of Donner Party relics,
antelope traps of prehistoric Indians, the grave of famed

VALLEY
Ute Chief Walkara, and forgotten sections of the Span-
ish and other historic trails. Today, Kelly resides in
Salt Lake City where he acts as unofficial consultant to
the Utah Historical Society. Because of failing eyesight
he finds it impossible to do any more field research,
and therefore has no plans to continue with his writing.
"But, after all," he said in a recent letter, "there must
be younger men to take up where 1 left off."

FROM SALT LAKE

P - S * i*ABANDONED.
A
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MOUNTAIN
MEADOWS
MASSACRE

TO
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Old Spanish Trail
TO LOS
 "I cut the first three letters News of the California gold discov- Utah. At that point a meeting was
of my name on a rock and ery had reached the East in 1848, and held to decide whether they should
the date . . . " already the Westward trails were continue on the Old Spanish Trail
lined with gold seekers. Most travel- or strike out more directly westward.
O wrote Henry W. Bigler in his Due to the persuasive oratory of an
S 1
journal under date of Novem-
ber 3, 1849. He was camped that
ers took the better known road down
the Humboldt directly to the dig-
gings; but many, reaching Salt Lake
ill-advised preacher, and the produc-
tion of an alleged map showing a cut-
da) with a pack, train in a beautiful City too late in the season to cross off, nearly the whole company decid-
little meadow of about 50 acres near the Sierras at Donner Pass, were com- ed to strike out due west, leaving
the headwaters of a canyon draining pelled to seek a southern route open less than a dozen wagons to follow
toward the Gulf of California. The in the winter months. The latter in- Hunt over the know trail. Among
camp was only three or four miles cluded William Manly, author of those who started over the supposed
west of the rim of the Great Basin, Death Valley in '49, the Bennett and cutoff were William Manly, those
yet the creek down which Bigler was Arcane families with whom he trav- mentioned in his story, and Bigler
traveling already had cut its channel eled, the Jayhawkers, and hundreds with his missionary party.
more than a thousand feet deep of others not mentioned in his ac-
through a stratum of white pumice count. This large group set out from Manly's story, written from mem-
and volcanic ash which brilliantly re- Salt Lake City in the fall of 1849, ory many years later, is a saga of des-
flected the afternoon sun. The flat and before they had traveled far, ert travel, but is not a daily record
little meadow in the canyon bottom were joined by the Bigler missionary and therefore not detailed enough so
was covered with a luxuriant growth party. that his route can be traced accurate-
of desert grasses and furnished the ly. Bigler, however, had been keep?
first good feed the pack animals had At that time no wheeled vehicle ing a journal ever since he joined
seen for many a weary day. had ever passed between Great Salt the Battalion in '46, and his record
Lake and the village of Los Angeles, of this journey of 1849 was merely a
Henry W. Bigler, although still a but the gold seekers of '49 were not continuation of the series.
young man, was no stranger to desert to be stopped by lack of roads. In the
travel. As a member of the Mormon new Mormon village they found With a copy of his journal in
Baltalion in 1846-47 he had trudged Capt. Jefferson Hunt, formerly of hand, I started out on Labor Day,
from Fort Leavenworth to Los Ange- the Battalion, and from him learned 1938, to search for those elusive ini-
les, completing one of the longest in- of the Old Spanish Trail over which tials. On this quest I was accompan-
fantry marches on record. After being he had traveled from Los Angeles to ied by J. Roderic Korns of Salt Lake
discharged in Los Angeles, he had Salt Lake. This route, first explored City, and Frank Beckwith, newspa-
started north with some of his bat- in 1829-30 by William Wolfskill and per publisher of Delta, Utah.
talion companions, intending to re- a group of trappers from Santa Fe,
turn immediately to Salt Lake City had been used annually by the pack At Parowan we left the paved
where Brigham Young had decided trains of Spanish traders ever since highway and started along the Old
to locate. At Sutter's Fort he had its discovery. Spanish Trail, which turns west to
stopped to work on the mill being Iron Springs, then circles the north-
constructed at Coloma by James W. The trail was marked by the bones end of the Iron Mountains to reach
Marshall and was present at the orig- of animals which had died of thirst a spring at what is now Newcastle.
inal discovery of gold, the correct along the way. Captain Hunt believ- Relying on Bigler's description we
date of which momentous occasion ed he could take wagons over that had no difficulty in locating the ex-
he carefully set down in his journal route. He agreed to guide the '49ers act route taken by the '49ers, al-
at the time. With a few Mormon for $10 per wagon. though we were compelled to follow
companions he dug gold for awhile Down through Utah trekked the many dim roads and sheep trails. Ap-
and then cheerfully obeyed the or- various detachments later to be proaching Newcastle we found part
ders of Brigham Young to gather with known as the Death Valley Party. of the old road made by the Death
the other Saints in "Zion." He had Near where Parowan now stands, Valley Party still visible, and photo-
been in the Holy City a few months they first struck the Old Spanish graphed it. Due to a cutoff made by
when he received a call from Brig- Trail and halted to form a more the Mormons after the settlement of
harn to go to the Sandwich Islands compact company. There were more Cedar City in 1852, this part of the
as a Mormon missionary. than 200 wagons and nearly as many old trail has been little used since
packers, including the missionary that date.
With Apostle C. C. Rich and a party.
group of other Mormons bound for Twelve miles west of Newcastle
the mission field, Bigler set out from They traveled together until they lies the little town of Enterprise,
Salt Lake City in October, 1849. reached the future site of Enterprise, where in early days were found large
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| FRAMING
meadows watered by Shoal Creek. leading away from the old trail, we PRINTS
Here Bigler, his Mormon friends and were soon lost in a maze of moun-
most of the gold seekers turned off
the Old Spanish Trail to take their
tains. At last we came to forks in the
trail and the way we took brought us
Contemporary
fabled cutoff. Instead of turning to Acoma, a water tank on the rail-
south with Captain Hunt, they struck road in.Nevada. Here we were direct- Southwestern Art
out due west, traveling up Shoal ed to Lamond Wood, an old pioneer Mill
Full-color high-quality reproductions of
Creek for about 19 miles, when they in that section. We found Wood at outstanding paintings lithographed on
turned southwest up a dry canyon Barclay (Joseca, Nev.) where he had heavy paper.
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ing this wash to its head they reached He knew every inch of the surround- yon." A magnificent canvas—blue palms in
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names cut on the rocks by the Death to have been abandoned after the
Delicate portrait of a white-robed Indian
Madonna. Companion painting to "Pa-
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were still legible. But careful exam- been impossible, he said, to have
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 We were here I think three
days. We had a very sick man Fall is the Superb Season for
and he died and we buried him ARTE5 de MEXICO
in as good style as the circum- . . . This
stances would allow. We broke
up again; those that had ox year
teams went up ten miles to cross in SCENIC SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH. This send
the canyon; the horse and mule is the last season for Glen Canyon River Trips.
teams made pack saddles out of For River & Wilderness Trips write: Kenny authentic
Ross, Archeologist and veteran river guide,
our wagons. We called this place "Wild Rivers Expeditions" or: Gene Foushee, id distinctive
Mount Misery. Geologist, "Tours of the Big Country," —
Mexican Christmas Cards
Recapture Court Motel,
Altogether about a dozen wagons For free card catalog, price list, write:
were abandoned at "Mount Misery." BLUFF, UTAH ARTES de MEXICO 1039 Inca Street
By reading Bigler's entries, Wood Denver, Colorado
identified "Mount Misery" as the
high ridge east of the Bowers Ranch
at the head of Beaver Dam Wash.
The wagon irons he had seen there The New
30 years before, were those of the
Death Valley party, although he was
not aware of the connection.
We drove back toward White Rock
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MONARCH OF THE DESERT
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went at a snail's pace, finally reach- cess-pool, water or sewage lines. Clean, majestic,
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At last to our joy we found deeply For detailed information, prices, write—
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We then knew we were on the trail
of the '49ers. We might find the in- P. O. Box 242
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Six-month-old hybrid Phone 329-5473
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at the "ranch" so we started walking
up the canyon. Within a quarter
mile we found another meadow "of

MAVERICK
about 50 acres," which seemed to
correspond to the place where Big-
ler's party had grazed and rested
their horses. Above, the canyon nar-
rowed, so we knew our only chance
was to search the rocks in that vi-
cinity.
Korns, eager to locate the irons of
the abandoned '49er wagons, began
climbing the steep canyon wall. Beck-
with followed the base of the white designed to fill the void between
cliff, scrutinizing every rock, but power scooter and 4-wheel
found no traces of names or dates.
I kept on up the canyon, sweeping drive vehicle — ideal
the rocks with field glasses. Most of TRANSPORTATION for
the rock surface was too coarse-grain- Rock Hounds —
ed to tempt anyone to carve his
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At last, just before turning back, I dis- Duners — Hillclimbers. send 250 for do-it-yourself parts
covered through the glasses a small list, schematic drawing and
surface of much finer grain. "If there
are any old names in this canyon," I brochure on complete unit.
said to myself, "they will be on that
rock." 55• engineering 330 SOUTH IRWINDALE AVE. • D-9• AZUSA, CALIF.
Breaking through the sagebrush

September. 1962 / Desert Mnumino / S3

 and bushes at the base of the cliff, I
glanced along the smooth surface
and almost the first thing that met
my eye were the dim but perfectly
legible letters "H. W. B." carved in
the center of a smooth panel, seven
feet from the ground. I had found
the needle in the haystack.
At my shout Beckwith came up,
but could not be convinced that I
had found Bigler's initials until he
saw them for himself. Korns, on top
of the ridge, was persuaded, after
much yelling, to descend.
The letters are about six inches
high, and were originally very care-
fully and deeply cut, but have been
severely eroded during the interven-
ing years. The date, which Bigler
says he cut along with his initials, is
so far gone that it does not show in
the photograph, only traces of the
figures remaining. But the finding of
these initials vindicates the accur-
acy of his old record and indicates
clearly the route of the '49ers after
they left the Old Spanish Trail.
The old wagon irons, which we
failed to locate in the dense cedar
growth, but which have been seen
by several Nevada pioneers, prove
definitely the location of "Mount
Misery" and the point where part
of the Death Valley Party left their
wagons and continued by pack train.
This spot is four miles from the head
of Beaver Dam Wash.
Bigler and the pack trains had
traveled down the bottom of the can-
yon. The wagons, unable to get down
into the canyon, continued along the
ridge above and to the east until
they found it impossible to proceed
further. Most of the wagons, includ-
ing those which Manly accompanied,
turned back to the rim and found
their way out of the difficulty by
dropping down into Clover Creek,
eventually reaching Meadow Valley
Wash near Caliente, Nevada.
After great difficulty, Bigler's par-
ty finally left Beaver Dam Wash,
which ran directly south, and turned
west across Mormon Mesa to approx-
imately the site of Carp, Nevada,
where they struck the Muddy, con-
tinuing down it to intersect the Span-
ish Trail near what is now Glendale.
Manly, Bennett, Arcane, the Jay-
hawkers and many others took a
route from the Muddy leading due
west; but since there is no known
day-by-day journal of their travels
from that point, it is doubtful if
their exact route will be definitely
traced. The finding of Bigler's ini-
tials, however, provides a starting
place for anyone who cares to finish
CHARLES KELLY, RIGHT, AND J. RODERIC KORNS, INSPECT THE INITIALS-"H.W.B.' tracing the old trail of '49. ///
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for application to United Prospectors, Auberry, areas spotted in color. Complete coverage of
California. 11 western states, plus parts of Texas, South MOTOR BIKE $50. Convert to desert bike for
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"Gold in Placer," $3. Frank J. Harnagy, Box postpaid. Scenic Guides, Box 288, Susanville,
105, Prather, California. California. • FOR WOMEN
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good condition. $40. John P. Blane, 6870 paid. Prairie Gems, Box 236, Long Prairie,
3003-D, Beverly Hills, California.
Birchwood St., San Diego 20, Calif. Minnesota.
"GEMS & Minerals Magazine," largest rock hobby FOR SALE: Desert Magazines, every issue except
monthly. Field trips, "how" articles, pictures,
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on books about collecting geographies. Peri- Reservation, $35,000. Terms. Selling reason: of shop. Rockhounds welcome. Mile west on
odical Service, Box 465-DE, Wilmington, Del. illness and old age. On Highway 86. Write for U.S. 66. McShan's Gem Shop and Desert
particulars. Goldie Richmond, proprietor. P. O. Museum. P.O. Box 22, Needles, California.
THOUSANDS OF out-of-print books in stock, Box 37, Sells, Arizona.
especially fiction. Murray's Bookfinding Serv- RIVERSIDE CALIFORNIA. We have everything
ARIZONA, GRANITE Dells near Prescott. Estab-
ice, 115 State Street, Springfield 3, Mass. for the rock hound, pebble pups, interesting
lished barbecue, beer, wine, fully equipped
gifts for those who are not rock hounds.
with walk-in cooler. Five room apartment, on
LEARN ABOUT gems from Handbook of Gems Minerals, slabs, rough materials, lapidary sup-
and Gemology. Written especially for ama- two acres. $30,000. Ken Miller, 3444 Corkoak plies, mountings, equipment, black lights. Why
teur, cutter, collector. Tells how to identify Way, Palo Alto, California. Davenport 3-2616. not stop and browse? Shamrock Rock Shop,
gems. $3 plus tax. Gemac Corporation, Box 593 West La Cadena Drive, Riverside, Calif.
808J, Mentone, California. • DO IT YOURSELF OVerland 6-3956.
BUILD YOUR own home. New low-cost tech-
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Tieasure and Lost Mines" is authentic guide Satisfaction guaranteed. Kern, Oakhurst, Calif.
to hidden wealth. If you are truly one of FOUR NATURAL staurolites, cross on both sides,
Coronado's Children, this book is a must! 68 • EQUIPMENT - SUPPLIES for $1 postpaid, "Animals" assembled from
pages, 93 bonafide treasure locations, 20 uncut quartz crystals — "Rockhound," $1.25
photos and illustrations, including vicinity LIGHTWEIGHT CAMPING and mountaineering each. Five assorted animals, $5.50 postpaid.
rraps. $1.50 per copy, postpaid. Send check equipment. The World's finest; used on Ever- Reasoner Rock Originals, Crown King Highway,
or money order to: Amador Trading Post est, Himalayas, Andes, etc. For free catalog, Bumble Bee, Arizona.
Publishing Co., L. Erie Schaefer, 14728 Peyton write: Gerry, Dept. 107, Box 910. Boulder,
Drive, Chino, Calif. Colorado. FOSSILS. 12 different for $2. Other prices on
request. Will buy, sell or trade. Museum of
METAL DETECTORS bought, sold, traded. Com- Fossils. Clifford H. Earl, P. O. Box 188,
BEFORE YOU take that trip to old mining camps, plete repair service. Free estimates appraisal.
read "Rocky Trails of the Past," either at Sedona, Arizona.
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210 Baltimore, Las Vegas, Nevada. Fisher, Goldak. MORE CLASSIFIEDS *
 FREE "FACT Sheet" on construction of under-
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Continued from preceding page JACKHAMMERS LINER and shell mine car, steel
bits, miscellaneous. Contact: Phillip Royball,
TEKTITES: "CHIPS off the Moon;" Phang Daeng, INDIAN PHONOGRAPH records, authentic songs Hillsboro, New Mexico. $705 cash or certified
Pailin District, Thailand, (Siam); Vl" to 1 " , and dances, all speeds. Write for latest list: check.
$1.10. Free list, mineral specimens and rough Canyon Records, 834 No. 7th Avenue, Phoenix,
1, Arizona. FISHER M-SCOPE, MA model, heavy duty, like
gem stones. The Vellor Co., P.O. Box 2344(D),
new, $175. Don Wellband, 600 Pleasant Hill
St. Louis 14, Missouri.
Road, Pleasant Hill, Calif.
SELLING 20,000 Indian relics. 100 nice ancient
POCKET GOLD, rare, crystalized, $2. Placer gold arrowheads $25. Indian skull $25. List free.
$2. Gold dust $1. Goldbearing black sand $1. Lear's, Glenwood, Arkansas. • OLD COINS, STAMPS
Attractively displayed. Postpaid, guaranteed.
Lester Lea, Box 1125-D, Mount Shaster, Calif. CARSON CITY mint dollars, uncirculated: 1878
WE BUY, sell, trade authentic reservation-made
- $ 6 . 1882-83-84-$ 15 each. 1880-81-85-$20
Navajo rugs, Indian basket and jewelry col-
each. 1890-91 $10 each. Illustrated price
• GEM-MINERAL SHOW lections. Send $1 for genuine turquoise nug-
list 100 pages 50c. Shultz, Box 746, Salt
get key chain, plus our 16-page brochure
Lake City 10, Utah.
DELVERS GEM and Mineral Society, "12th An- containing valuable, interesting information.
nual Show," September 29 and 30. Auditor- The Indian Room, 1440 South Coast Highway, BUYING U.S. gold coins. Will pay 50% above
ium, Simms Park, 16614 South Clark, Bellflow- Laguna Beach, California. face value. Any amount. Check airmailed to
er, California. Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., you immediately. Ship registered mail.
Sunday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. AUTHENTIC INDIAN jewelry, Navajo rugs, Chi- Murry Coins, 5415 Bond, Shawnee, Kansas.
mayo blankets, squaw boots. Collector's items.
Closed Tuesdays. Pow-Wow Indian Trading WANTED: MEXICAN coins before 1932. Please
• GEMS, ROUGH MATERIAL Post, 19967 Ventura Blvd., East Woodland give date, denomination, metal and your
BEAUTIFUL CUT or rough Australian fire opals Hills, Calif. Open Sundays. asking price. Wunder, Box 94, Trona, Calif.
sent on approval. See before you buy, from
FINE RESERVATION-MADE Navajo, Zuni, Hopi
one of America's largest opal importers. Free
jewelry. Old pawn. Many fine old baskets,
• PERSONAL
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ley, California. moderately priced, in excellent condition INTERESTED NEOLITHIC Palaeolithic history
Navajo rugs, Yei blankets, Chimayo homespuns, Kentucky Springs, Acton quadrangle. Any
OPAL, DIRECT from the mine, per ounce $1.25. pottery. A collector's paradise! Open daily literature extant? Francis Eugene Norris, 268
Free price lists. Kendall, San Miguel d'Allende, 10 to 5:30, closed Mondays. Buffalo Trading East Avenue P-l, Palmdale, California.
Gto., Mexico. Post, Highway 18, Apple Valley, California.

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tumbling, 1 pound $3. Glass Marble key- • JEWELRY USE OUR mail service for fine custom black and
chains, $5.50 dozen postpaid. Graza's, 303 St. white and color film processing and printing.
Marie Avenue, Mission, Texas. GENUINE TURQUOISE bolo ties $1.50, 11 stone We sell, buy and trade cameras. Write for
turquoise bracelet $2. Gem quality golden our free bargain sheet. (Since 1932.) Morgan
CYCADS, $3 pound; tumbling agates—all colors tiger-eye $1.75 pound, beautiful mixed agate Camera Shop. 6262 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood
$1.50; red, yellow jasper agate, $1 pound, baroques $3 pound. Postage and tax extra. 28, California.
postpaid. Satisfaction or money refunded. Tubby's Rock Shop, 2420V2 Honolulu Ave.,
Floyd Mangum, 430 North 300 West, Maple- Montrose, California. VACATION COLOR slides, movies. 3000 travel,
ton, Utah. nature slides. Free catalog. Sample slides 25c.
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Step-by-step teaching manual. Start any time, Topographic maps of all mapped western and telephoto lenses. It folds and serves as
transfer easily to other schools. Ideal for areas. Westwide Maps Co., 114 West Third a convenient carrying case handle for your
above-average child. 57th year. Non-profit. Street, Los Angeles 13, California. camera. ST-101, lightweight only $6.95; heavy
Catalog. 830 West Tuscany Road, Baltimore duty only $9.95. Money back guarantee. Blue
10, Maryland. DEEK GLADSON'S Ghost Town Map of Nevada, Point Corporation, Box 483, Glendora, Calif.
24"x36", four-color, 115 ghost towns, authen-
LEARN REALISTIC oil painting by correspondence. tic, accurate. See and buy at your local • PLANTS, SEEDS
Amateur and advanced. Forty point critique of rock shop or book store, or send $2 to D. M.
each painting. Walker School of Art, Box 486, Miller, 1281 Hyland Lake Drive, Salt Lake City 1962 WILDFLOWER and tree seed catalog, over
Montrose 1, Colorado. 17, Utah. 700 species, valuable information. Send 50c
to Clyde Robin, P.O. Box 2091, Castro Valley,
HOME STUDY instruction: Typing, Accounting, California.
Civil Service. Beginning or advanced, exper-
• MINING
REMEMBER "HOT Cakes and Chia" (April '58
ienced, competent instruction, sensible tuition
ASSAYS. COMPLETE, accurate, guaranteed. High- issue of DESERT). Chia for sale $5.50 pound.
fees, three day service on lessons. Mid-Valley
est quality spectrographic. Only $8 per sam- Box 147, French Camp, California.
Business & Trade School, P. O. Box 1101,
Modesto, Calif. ple. Reed Engineering, 620-R So. Inglewood TWELVE STRANGE, rare cactus and succulents
Ave., Inglewood, California. from Mexico and South America, plus the
free Old Man of Mexico, only $3. Meyers,
• INDIAN GOODS $1 FOR gold areas, 25 California counties. Box 307, Homeland, California.
Geology, elevations. Pans $3, $2.50. Poke $1.
COME OCTOBER and the most complete selec- Fred Mark, Box 801, Ojai, California. FREE CACTUS: Three different flowering cactus,
tion of Navajo Rugs in California will be including beautiful Mexican Golden Ball. Send
offered for sale at the Desert Magazine Gallery. DO IT Yourself dry washer. Parts precision cut, 25c mailing charges. Aunt Pat, Edinburg 5,
drilled, ready to assemble. Only screwdriver, Texas.
THREE FINE prehistoric Indian war arrowheads hammer and pliers required. Ideal for samp-
$1. Flint scalping knife $1. Rare flint thunder-
bird $3. All $4. Catalog free. Arrowhead,
ling or the weekend prospector. $59.50. • REAL ESTATE
Hubert's Woodshop, 8543 Spohn, Fontana,
Glenwood, Arkansas. California. FOR INFORMATION on desert acreage and par-
cels for sale in or near Twentynine Palms,
8 ARROWHEADS $2, 12 warpoints $2, 6 bird- TURQUOISE MINE in Nevada. Good blue tur- please write or visit: Silas S. Stanley, Realtor,
points $2, 4 spears-knives $2, Iroquoise masks quoise, will sell or lease with option. Hile- 73644 Twentynine Palms Highway, Twenty-
$40—$100. Paul Summers, Canyon, Texas. man, 3235 41st Street, San Diego, Calif. nine Palms, California.
SOUTHERN OREGON ranch and farm sites near
Medford and Grants Pass, $1995 to $7995.
Terms low as $100 down, $25 monthly. Free
catalog. Cal-Ore Ranches, 843-DX East Main
Street, Medford, Oregon.

SOUTHERN NEW Mexico, 40 miles north Las

Cruces, 640 level acres, $35 per acre. O. R.
Hackler, Box 32, Cave Creek, Arizona.

FOR SALE: 5 acre desert retreat, comfortable

cabin, underground water tank, electricity.
$6500. Terms. Dicey Anderson, P. O. Box 102,
Landers, California.
$6000 BUYS 10 choice acres, V2 mile to center
o( town, Lucerne Valley. Level, good loose
soil, good water. George Nursall, 12121 Ban-
gor, Garden Grove, California.

SALTON SEA, houses, duplexes, lots, motel and

trailer park sites, acreage properties, trades.
Iris O. Smith, Realtor, Box 121, Salton City,
California.

HAVE YOUR cake and eat it too! Will buy

Southern Arizona homestead property. Owner
may remain. Prefer wild undeveloped land.
Frank Kolbe, Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania.

LAKE HAVASU, Colorado River playground, 10

acres, nine miles from boat landing, cabin,
trailer-site, investment, tremendous river re-
creational development program for area.
Price $1495. $50 down, $25 month. Box 8062,
Los Angeles 8. AX19188.

TIRED OF desert heat: Retire to 12 acre dwarf

orchard on scenic Blue Ridge Parkway. Alley,
Box 1003, Waynesville, North Carolina.
WANTED: RAW acreage on main U. S. Highway.
Give details, price, etc. Write: James Dowell,
6216 Ninth Avenue, N. W., Seattle, Wash.

FOR SALE: 120 acres, $21,000 cash or terms.

Live in high cooler desert in a beautiful valley
surrounded by high snow covered mountains.
Large modern house, television, irrigation well,
farm machinery, nearby school and store. Five DESERT DRIFTWOOD — $3.98
minutes to creek for fishing, lake swimming,
1V2 hours drive to Mammoth Junction, Mono, By Maude Rubin
Crowley lakes, boating, fishing, skiing, camp-
ing, recreation areas. Between Bishop, Calif-
ornia and Tonopah, Nevada. Write: Roy Gris- How silver-still this dry mesquite Sun-scented wind. Still the germ
wald, Fishlake Valley, Tonopah, Nevada. Waits at the Garden Shop, complete of fire
FOR SALE. Near Apple Valley Ranchos, acre with
With planter-bowl and floodlight, Inhabits each branch, each twisted
with practically completed one-room con- priced spire
crete block cabin with fireplace. Write: To suit suburban purses, riced That reaches ever high and higher
Waugh, 655 Cliff Drive, Pasadena, California.
With new love . . . No pungent green Toward arching blue . . . I understand
ROCKHOUNDS: LARGE home with ocean view, Each twist, a white and silent hand
hobby room with display cases. Will take Dresses this trellis with a scene
Stretching back toward a desert
trust deeds or real estate for $15,000 equity. Of endless space, the feel of clean home . . . and sand.
Harry Miller, 1440 Hunsaker, Oceanside, Calif.
4Vi ACRES on state highway, Lucerne valley,
house, two wells, pumps, windmills, reservoir.
Many trees, gas, electricity, telephone. Tate, BURLWOOD TABLES from coffee size to con- ROOT-CLOGGED sewers? Keep sewers and sep-
510 South La Brea, I nglewood. Orchard ference size. Made from Redwood, Madrone, tic systems open, prevent costly stoppages,
4-2921. Myrtle, Maple. All rough natural edges, legs by flushing "Stop Root" down toilet. End
made of small burls. Will send pictures on expensive trouble. Satisfaction guaranteed.
on request, to be returned. Elmer Wilson, Year's supply: $3.95 postpaid. Derbo Chem-
• WESTERN MERCHANDISE 6195 Avalon Drive, Eureka, California. icals, Box 1204, Burbank, California.
FREE "DO-lt-Yourself" leathercraft catalog. Tandy DESERT GLASS, private collection of several RECORDS: 45 rpm, from jukebox route. Mini-
Leather Company, Box 791-B45, Fort Worth, hundred old bottles and jars at $1 and up, mum order: 50 for $5, no duplication, post-
Texas. plus postage and insurance. Bottles Anony- paid. Will trade for crystals, slabs, finished
mous, 4329 Berrendo Drive, Sacramento 25, stones suitable for jewelry. Calvin Headley,
GHOST TOWN items: Sun-colored glass, amethyst
California. 8712 Dodson, Houston 16, Texas.
to royal purple; ghost railroads materials,
tickets; limited odd items from camps of the NATURES OWN polish from the desert of Ne- BUTTERFLIES: 15 Formosan, paper bodies, spread
'60s. Write your interest—Box 64-D, Smith, vada, ideal for silver, copper, brass. Trial wings $1. In envelopes: 10 Mexican or Brazil,
Nevada. package 25c coin. Satisfaction or money re- $2. 10 Australian or New Guinea, $3.50. 15
funded. Dancer, P. O. Box 252, Fernley, Formosan or Philippines, $1. 15 Ohio or
ARCHIE'S ACRES. Antiques, sun colored glass.
Nevada. U. S., $1. William Thrasher, R. D. Route 2,
No price list. Come and see! 11501 Daven-
port Road, Agua Dulce, California. Wl 7-4941. Box 44, Garrettsville, Ohio.
• MISCELLANEOUS
PINE CONES. Many species, sizes from entire DESERT MAGAZINES for sale, complete volumes
Pacific Coast. For decorations, arrangements, SOUR DOUGH biscuit recipe and full directions 1 through 14. All in binders except Volume
nature study. Illustrated booklet. Western $1. Dutchoven or modern baking. Revive the 14. Make offer. L. G. Niles, P.O. Box 43,
Cones, Corvallis, Oregon. lost art. Franks Murdock, Dalhart, Texas. Dana Point, California.
 were probing Westward in the pre- site now known as Warner's Ranch
Civil War days. An excellent round- in San Diego County. Here, on the
up of the life of Kern is Robert V. old Butterfield Stage route, he
Hine's EDWARD KERN AND watched much history come and go,
AMERICAN EXPANSION. Fortu- saw the Mexican flag replaced by the
nately, the author concentrates on California colors, and finally served
^INTERESTING the Kern portion of the title, leaving his state as a senator and assembly-
man. Lorrin L. Morrison has put to-
^.SOUTHWEST "American Expansion" to others.
Kern's Western wanderings took him gether a well-documented report:
on two Fremont trips, brought him WARNER, THE MAN AND THE
across the paths of Kit Carson and RANCH, a paper - backed book of
Old Bill Williams (it was Williams some 90 pages, which highlights the
who was with Edward's brother, Dr. story of Warner, from his first trips
Ben Kern, when Ben and Old Bill West as a trapper with Jedediah
were killed by some Ute Indians) . Strong Smith, to his final days in Los
Kern was on two mapping expedi- Angeles as a crusading newspaper
publisher and historian. Much of the
history of Southern California, from
the 1840s to the 1890s, swept around
THE NEW BOOKS . . . Warner's feet. Morrison's collection
EDWARD KERN AND AMERICAN of reports and documents touch on
EXPANSION, by Robert V. Hine. 200 this romantic frontier period. He has
pages; illustrated; hardcover. $6. selected many illustrations, both
WARNER, THE MAN AND THE sketches and old photographs. Not
RANCH, by Lorrin L. Morrison. 90 only has he prepared the Warner
The mid-1800s were lusty years for pages; illustrated; papercover. $2. material, but Morrison, a historian
the Westward - marching America. ROUNDUP OF WESTERN LITERA- himself, has also printed the book on
The Santa Fe Trail, the Mormon TURE, by Oren Arnold. 308 pages; his own presses. It is an excellent
hegira, the Fremont expeditions, illustrated; hardcover. $3.75. piece of regional history.
the California revolt that severed WHITE DANGER, by Oren Arnold. 192
California from Mexican ownership, pages; hardcover. $2.95. Of late there has been quite a
American mapping voyages to Cathay ALSO CURRENT . . . spate of anthologies centered around
and Japan—these were some of the the literature of the Southwest. One
historic events that Edward Kern LOWER CALIFORNIA GUIDEBOOK, okltimer, published back in 1949,
by Gerhard and Gulick. Revised edi-
saw first-hand during his brief years tion of the comprehensive guide. 243 but unique in that it is aimed toward
as an observer, topographer, artist, pages; maps; hardcover. $6.50. the junior highschool set, is Oren
and cartographer for various govern- MEXICO AND GUATEMALA BY Arnold's ROUNDUP OF WEST-
ment expeditions and agencies that CAR, by Norman D. Ford. What to ERN LITERATURE. Because it is
see, where to stay, south of the bor- designed especially for the exploring
der. 159 pages; papercover. $1.50. adolescent mind, and because it still
THE DESERT REVOLUTION, by enshrines some Southwestern classics,
Photo Album of Lowell L. Blaisdell. The brief but ex-
citing 1911 Baja California uprising.
Arnold's ROUNDUP is worthy of
remembrance. Some of the authors
Yesterday's Southwest 268 pages; hardcover. $6.
corralled in the 316 pages of the
HOW TO ORDER . . . ROUNDUP are Dick Wick Hall,
The books listed above can be pur- Stewart Edward White, S. Omar Bar-
chased by mail from Desert Magazine ker, Bret Harte, Ross Santee, Hugh
Book Store, Palm Desert, Calif. Please Bryan, J. Frank Dobie, Lawrence
add 15c for postage and handling per Cardwell, and Sharlot M. Hall.
book. California residents also add
4% sales tax. Write for free South-
west book catalog. Latest of Oren Arnold's books has
little to do with the desert land, but
deserves mention in Desert Maga-
tions along the Chinese, Japanese, zine's book section, for many of our
and Russian coastlines. Published by readers have become acquainted with
the Yale Press, EDWARD KERN Oren's delightful pen through his
AND AMERICAN EXPANSION column, "Desert Detours," that ap-
197 outstanding early-day pictures
has more than 200 pages between its pears monthly in this journal. Ar-
of America's desert frontier as it
really was . . . in a rich black-and- covers. It carries an excellent bibli- nold's newest, WHITE DANGER,
gold embossed binding. ography, and several examples of gets about as far from the desertland
Kern's sketches and notes. as possible. It's a story about a young
Send for a free illustrated folder
describing this new richly-printed
man's adventures in the high forest
200-page volume. Long before Kern "discovered" the country with a crew of government
$15 (plus 25c mailing charges; California
West, another Easterner, John Warn- snow surveyors. Written for the sub-
residents also add 4 % sales tax) er, found the Southwest and Cali- teenagers, WHITE DANGER, is an
fornia to his liking. Warner led an accurately reported novel on the
By Mail From:
exciting life of exploring and trap- work the snow gaugers do.
DESERT MAGAZINE BOOK SHOP
Palm Desert 2, Calif.
ping—enough for a lifetime for most
men—before he finally settled at the —Charles E. Shelton
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ILLUSTRATED FEATURE ARTICLES

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Issue Travel-Exploration Gem-Mineral Indian Lore Desert Southwest Other
Date Nature Features
Dec HENDERSON: "Trail to LAUDERMILK: "Rillen- KELLY: "Lost Silver of OLIN: " C a c t i " BROWN: "Tradiing Post
40 49 Palms" (Calif.) * steine on Mojave Desert"* Monument Valley" at The Gap
Dec HENDERSON: "Palms in BROWN: "Obsidian at HARRINGTON: "How I n - SOUTH: "Desert Refuge" MITCHELL: "Lost San
41 Kofa Canyon" (Ariz.) * Mono Crater" (Calif.) * dians Made Arrowheads" Pedro Mine"
Jul NININGER: "Meteor VAN VALKENBURGH: KELLY: "Gold Hunters
42 Crater" (Ariz.) * "Legend of the White Are Like That"
e Shell Woman" (New Mex.)*
KELLY: "Utah's Capitol HILTON: "Amethyst in MUENCH: "On the Trail OLIN: " C a c t i " HEALD: "What Makes
Reef Cliffs" * Nevada" * to Keetseel" a Desert"
I HENDERSON: "Japanese
Camp at Parker" (Ariz.)*
BROWN: "Fairy Crystals
From an Old Mine Dump"
KELLY: "Navajo Rain
Sing"
BRADT: "Sparrow Hawk" SYKES: "Mysterious Lake
in the Desert" (Calif.) *
(Ariz.) *

I Dec
42
HENDERSON: "Carrizo
Badlands" (Calif.) *
NININGER: "How to
Recognize Meteorites"
VAN VALKENBURGH:
"Navajo Christmas
Legend"
LAUDERMILK: "Yucca
Moth"
CARUTHERS: "Charley
Brown of Shoshone"

Mar KELLY: "Ancient Antelope KEAGLE: "Charley MUENCH. "Shrine of the BRADT: "Burrowing ARNOLD: "Cactus Car-
43 Run" (Utah) * Williams—Lapidary" Three Babies" (Ariz.) * Owls" toonist Harry Locke"
VAN VALKENBURGH: QUICK: "Opal at Virgin STONE: Paiute BEAL: Squaw Bush" WOODWARD: "When
I *S "Spanish Inscriptions in
the Big Carrizo" (Ariz.) *
Valley" (Nev.) * Craftsman" Scalp Hunters Ran the
Yuma Ferryboat"
Jun KELLY: "Inscription BEAL: "Incense Bush" STONE: "Pelicans at
43 Rock" (New Mex.) Pyramid Lake" (Nev.) *
DORR: "Pagan Easter LAUDERMILK: "Indian BROWN: "Silking Black ARNOLD: "Craftsman
IS in New Mexico" Uses of Native Plants" Widow Spiders" in Cactus Wood"
Jul MUENCH: "Inscription LAUDERMILK & MUNZ: WILTON: "Wilson
44 at El Morro" (New Mex.) "How Desert Plants Howell's Desert Paradise"
o Survive"
w Dec RANKIN: "Treasure VAN VALKENBURGH: "1 BEAL "Mistletoe" KELLY: "Donner Tragedy
44 Canyon" (Calif.) * Wached the Gods Dance" Relic Found" *
O (Navajo)
Sep HENDERSON: "River LANGLEY: "Hopi Snake KELLY: "Seagulls in HILTON: "Bill Krehm
45 Trail To Rainbow Bridge" * Dance" (Ariz.) * Great Salt Lake" —Artist"
Oct HENDERSON: "Hidden HILTON: "Desert Sea VAN VALKENBURGH: LAUDERMILK: "Opuntia KELLY: "Antoine
45 Springs Oasis" (Calif.) * Shells" "Sacred Ram of the —Mexican Tuna" Leroux—Pathfinder"
Navajo"
Nov HENDERSON: "Where HILTON: "Geodes in LANGLEY: "Havasupai BEAL: "Midget Poppies" GILBERT: "Ancient
45 Palms Meet Pines" the Chuckawallas" in the Grand Canyon" Home of the Koshare"
(Calif.) * (Calif.) * (New Mex.)
Dec HENDERSON: "Palms in WOLMAN: "Quincy BEAL: Arizona Cypress" STEDMAN: "Jackrabbit
45 Pushawalla Canyon Tahoma—Navajo Artist" Homesteader"
(Calif.) *
Mar HENDERSON: "Dripping HILTON: "Crystals and CARRICK: "Dry KELLY: "First Emigrant
46 Springs in the Santa Concretions at Salton Arrangements" Train" (Utah-Nev.) *
Rosas" (Calif.) * Sea" (Calif.) *
Feb HENDERSON: "Palms of VAN VALKENBURGH: LAUDERMILK"Parasitic KELLY: "New Road in
47 Palomar" (Baja Calif.) * "Trail to Turquoise" Plant—Dodder" Utah Wilderness"
(Ariz.) * (Hite's Ferry) *
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