THE ANZA-BORREGO DESERT REGION: a guide to the state park and the adjacent areas. by Lowell and Diana Lindsay. Comprehensive guide to Southern California's popular desert playground including areas of San Diego and Riverside Counties from the Santa Rosa Mountains to Mexico. Describes 65 trips along 700 miles of jeep trails, paved roads, and hiking routes with details on over 300 points of historic and natural interest. Region appeals to backpackers, dune-buggy users, hikers, horseback riders, nature seekers, and campers. 165 pages, photos, index, large fold-out map.
ISBN: 0-911824-67-7. Order #: WILD7587 paper$9.95.

Also see Map of Anza Borrega State Park and adjacent areas.

 

DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION: the story of the Amargosa Opera House. by Marta Becket; edited by Stanley Paher.
How this professional dancer came to take an abandoned theater in the eastern California desert near Death Valley and make it into an opera house where she would give performances. This is also her story of soliciting public support to restore paintings that were on the walls. History of the town is given, including its major role in borax mining and milling. Photographs, map of region and nearby ghost towns, 16 large-format pages.
ISBN: None. 1979. Order #: NEVA1109 paper$19.50.

 

#DEATH VALLEY JEEP TRAILS. Mitchell. Illustrated, 36 pages.
ISBN: 0-910856-30-3. Order #: LASI0783 paper$4.95.

DEATH VALLEY: the story behind the scenery. Clark.
Heat, flood, cactus. geology, history, scenery of this hottest place on Earth. 48 large-format pages, color illus.
ISBN: 0-916122-12-3. 1981. Order #: KCPU4636 paper$8.95.

 

 

#DEATH VALLEY'S SCOTTY'S CASTLE: the story behind the scenery (CA). Paher.
Strange story of this desert mansion in an isolated canyon of Death Valley National Park--of the man who had it built and the man who came to be identified with it. Includes interior furnishings, architecture. 48 large-format pages, color illustrations.
ISBN: 0-916122-87-5. 1985. Order #: KCPU4878 paper$8.95.

DEATH VALLEY SCOTTY: the man and the myth. by Hank Johnston.
Part fact, a great part folklore, Scotty's singular life was perhaps the Last Hurrah of the Old West: "The Cowboy and the Lady", "All that Glitters", "The Coyote Special", "The Man from Chicago", "The Battle of Wingate Pass", "Million-Dollar Mine Hoax", "Castle in the Desert", "The Last Hurrah, 48 large-format pages, 48 illustrations, 1928 map of Death Valley.
ISBN: None. Order #: GRWE7506 paper$7.95.

 

#DESERT AWARENESS: information for anyone traveling in the desert southwest. by Helen Georges.
From DARES--Desert Alpine Reserve Emergency Service.. Information for traveling in Southwest desert: techniques, hazards. Travel by walking or driving, flash floods, dehydration and finding water, poisonous plants and insects, snakes, and spiders, finding direction with compass and other means. 36 pages.
ISBN: . Order #: MAFE0816 paper$19.50.

DESERT HIKING. by Dave Ganci.
Special techniques for hiking and backpacking in the land of sun and sand; desert clothing equipment. Includes introduction to many cacti and desert animals and the need for water with tips on where to find it. Vehicle considerations.. Photos, 192 pages, index, sources of information..
ISBN: 0-89997-086-9. Order #: WILD1798 paper$13.95. Note ISBN.

DESERT HIKING.by Dave Ganci.
Special techniques for hiking and backpacking in the land of sun and sand; desert clothing equipment. Includes introduction to many cacti and desert animals and the need for water with tips on where to find it. Vehicle considerations.. Photos, 192 pages, index, sources of information..
ISBN: 0-89997-036-2. 1983. Order #: WILD1357 paper$13.95. Note ISBN.

 

DESERT SURVIVAL HANDBOOK: how to prevent and handle emergency situations. by Charles A. Lehman.
T his easy-to-read handbook provides you with the basic survival skills necessary to deal with emergencies in the desert. It makes an ideal carry-along in your backpack, car, boat, airplane, RV, or saddlebag.
ISBN: 1-935810-65-X. Order #: AMTR7611 paper$8.95.

 

 

DESERT WILDFLOWERS OF NORTH AMERICA. by Ronald J. Taylor.
Covers major portions of southeastern California, Nevada, Utah, southwestern Arizona, and central-southern New Mexico--including or 500 species of flowering plants and full-color. 359 pages, color photos, maps, drawings, charts. Deserts included are Mojave, Sonoran, Painted, Chihuahan, and Great Basin.
ISBN: 0-87842-376-1. Order # MOPR1197 paper$24.00.

 

EASTERN CALIFORNIA TREASURE HUNTERS GHOST TOWN GUIDE. by Theron Fox.
Handy reference for locating old mining camps, ghost town sites, forts, abandoned roads and railroads, mountains, rivers, and creeks. Includes inserted folded map of Eastern California, 1881; lists several hundred place names. Center pages are 1860 county map of California. Tells history of state to give context on where treasure might be found. Maps, 24 pages, index.
ISBN: None. Order #: NEVA7584 paper$4.95.

 

FOSSIL VERTEBRATES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. by Theodore Downs.
Purpose of this book is to aid in fossil identification--bones, teeth, or imprints, how to preserve a find, and to review the sequence of vertebrate life in time. Map shows localities where fossils have been found, and what to look for with diagrams and color plates of fossil parts. Geologic eras are explained, a guide to what fossils what might be expected based on the age of rocks in a locality. 61 small pages.
ISBN: None. 1968.Order #: UNCA1520 paper$1.75.

 

 

GEOLOGY UNDERFOOT IN DEATH VALLEY AND OWENS VALLEY. by Robert Sharp & Allen Glazner.
"Robert Sharp and Allen Glazner are to geology what Carl Sagan was to astronomy." —Eclectic Book Reviews. Eastern California boasts the greatest dryland relief in the contiguous United States, between 14,499-foot Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada and minus-282-foot Badwater Basin in Death Valley. That relief offers a rich variety of environments--and spectacular geology. Through driving and walking tours, Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley provides an on-the-ground look at the processes sculpting the terrain in this land of extremes.
Illustrated with photographs, maps, and diagrams, each geological vignette weaves the tale of a particular scene, feature, or relationship in the landscape. Some sketches ponder questions that have puzzled geologists: what formed the turtlebacks in the Black Mountains and how do stones mysteriously slide on desolate Racetrack Playa? Others spotlight the role of volcanoes and earthquakes as landscape artists: the superb lava columns of Devil's Postpile, the massive steam explosion at Ubehebe Crater, and fault scarps that shape a golf course's greens. Still others focus on less obvious but equally powerful geologic processes: boulders shattered by salt crystals and rocks blasted by windblown sand. Together, these snapshots introduce readers to eastern California's rich, dynamic geology. 329 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-87842-362-0. Order #: MOPR1105 paper$20.00.

 

GUIDE TO ROCK ART SITES (A): southern California and southern Nevada. Whitley.
Covers 38 sites describing their content, preservation conditions, and locations taking into account different environments when some were made such as during a later Ice Age period. 224 pages, color photos, drawings, maps.
ISBN: 0-87108-926-2. Out of print. Order #: MOPR1816 paper$20.00.

 

 

JOSHUA TREE: the story behind the scenery (CA). by Delcie H. Vuncannon.
Whether you come to Joshua Tree National Park as a camper, rock climber, hiker or photographer--or just pass through as a sight seer, the scenery will be a fascinating surprise. The largest national park in the lower 48 states, it is a vast area preserved in its balance between nature and the early pioneers for us to enjoy today.
Seasons change the facade of the land at Joshua Tree. Spring presents carpets of yellow flowers and summer shows a shimmering landscape of rising heat waves.  Winter, with its occasional sprinkling of show, can change that same landscape into a fantastic science-fiction scene, dominated by Joshua tree arms.
Joshua Tree, the Story Behind the Scenery, leads the reader through the many facets of the park's beauty, documenting the history of the area's interaction with humans, both Native Americans and the later arriving white men.  You'll be fascinated by the passion of private citizens who petitioned the national leaders to preserve this vast desert.9x12, 48 pages, 85 color photos & 1 map.
ISBN: 0-88714-106-4. 1996. Order #: KCPU8029 paper$11.95.

MAP OF ANZA-BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK and adjacent areas. . Wilderness Press.  Shows roads, jeep roads, trails, park boundary, restricted area, lakes and creeks, campgrounds, mines, ranger stations, and more for Southern California area. (Included in book "Anza-Borrego Desert Region".) 21.5" x 28" shipped folded.
ISBN: None. 1978. Order #: WILD2613 map$4.95.

MAP OF ANZA-BORREGO DESERT STATE PARK and adjacent areas. . Wilderness Press.  Shows roads, jeep roads, trails, park boundary, restricted area, lakes and creeks, campgrounds, mines, ranger stations, and more for Southern California area. (Included in book "Anza-Borrego Desert Region".) 21.5" x 28" shipped folded.
ISBN: None. 1978. Order #: WILD1834 map$4.95. Check stock--5 or 9 or ?

#RECORD-BREAKING RUN OF THE SCOTT SPECIAL.
ISBN: None.Order #: FLSP9180 paper$3.95.

SAGUARO: the desert flower book. by Millie Miller with flowers drawn by Millie Miller, Sally King, and Cyndi Nelson..
A couple hundred color drawings and notes on common flowers of Southwest deserts with descriptive notes and common and scientific names, including desert mallow, blazing star, creosote, yucca, desert phlox, paintbrush, barrel cactus, tidy tips, buckhorn cholla, and many more. 68 pages 4" x 6".
Inventory =1. ISBN:0-933472-69-2. 1982. Order #: JOHN3772 paper$5.95.

 

 

#SCOTTY'S DEATH VALLEY CASTLE: the story behind the scenery. Paher.
Strange story of this desert mansion in an isolated canyon of Death Valley National Park--of the man who had it built and the man who came to be identified with it. Includes interior furnishings, architecture. 48 large-format pages, color illustrations.
ISBN: 0-916122-87-5. Order #: KCPU4878 paper$8.95.

SNOWY EARTH COMES GLIDING. by Evelin Eaton.
Discovering ancient wisdom of country of lost borders, known to white folks as Owens Valley; Native American traditions through the eyes of a resident who became familiar with the native people and studied their practices, customs, and beliefs. Author writes of sweat lodges, being a Singer, the pipe tradition, dances, and ways of thinking. Published by the Bear Tribe. Photos, 120 pages.
ISBN: 0-943404-02-9. 1974. Order #: BETR0178 paper$5.95.

 

 

SONORAN DESERT: the story behind the scenery (AZ/CA). Helms.
Unusual desert landscape and wildlife zone of SW AZ, SE CA, and Baja California--with strange cactus, sand dunes, faulted mountains,and even a seacoast. 48 large-format pages, color illustrations.
ISBN:0-916122-71-9. 1991. Fourth printing. Order #: KCPU4891 paper$8.95.

 

 

TRAILS OF THE ANGELES MAP: 100 hikes in the San Gabriels. John W. Robinson. This large topographic map for the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California features one-day hikes and backpack trips and shows roads and trails, campgrounds, picnic areas, ranger stations, streams, springs, lakes, parks and places of history. (Included in Trails of the Angeles book.) 19"x33.5" shipped folded.
ISBN: None. 1980.Order #: WILD1765 map$4.95.

 

 

THE WAY IT IS. by Corbin Harney.
This elder and spiritual leader of Western Shoshone Nation tells of lifeways of his people, who are native to Idaho, Nevada, Utah, and California. He also practices healing as a medicine man, provides sweat lodge ceremonies, leads prayers, and has been instrumental in helping to stop nuclear testing. The philosophy he proposes is to come back to the native way of life, not misuse Mother Earth but to take care of her for the younger generation. To do this, he notes, we have to put our thoughts together: one water, one air, one Mother Earth. Photos, 245 pages.
ISBN: 0-931892-80-5. Order #: BLDO5821 paper$16.00.

 

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ROCK ART OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN by Campbell Grant.
This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists. With photographs and drawings on virtually every page, this book presents the rock artists through the work they left--illustrating their extraordinarily diverse techniques, styles, and subjects. Meanings of the designs are discussed, and their roles in hunting or puberty rites interpreted. Major rock art sites are located, and methods of recording, preserving, and dating them are indicated. Author Grant has done rock art books on the Chumash Indians, the Coso Range, and Canyon de Chelly. 192 pages + 16 page color insert. Large-format. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3. Order #: VIST0084 paper$12.95.

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