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OUTDOOR TOUTHWESt
Nouember, 1961 40 cents
 
A Gold Medal for Desert
We take pride in announcing to ourreaders that this publication has won theGold Medal for Excellence, general magazine
class,
in competition held at the 1961 Cali-fornia State Fair.
Desert Magazine's
winning entry was theJuly '60 special issue on "Summer Heat,"which presented in words and pictures apenetrating analysis of the Desert South-west's warm weather days. It was the firstspecial issue undertaken by
Desert
sinceissue Number 1, Volume 1, came offthe presses in November, 1937.The State Fair's SilverMedal (second place award)went to
West
ways
Mag-azine,
Los Angeles, forits "Let's Explore A By-way" series.
SunsetMagazine,
Palo Alto,was Bronze Medal win-ner with "The Won-derful Outdoor Worldof San Diego."
Desert's
award - win-ning issue consisted ofnine illustrated feature ar-ticles exploring the heattheme. "Quite naturally,"read the preface to this issue,"most of our stories center in DeathValley, the hottest place in the NothernHemisphere and perhaps the world. Thesearticles are factual. Hot weather is neitheroverly-dramatized ('. . . the cruel, scaringdeserts . . .') nor given a chamber of com-merce gloss ('. . . while high, daytime tem-peratures are comfortable . . .')."Those feature articles, and their authorswere: "Indians of the Land Afire" by RuthKirk—story of the Panamint people whohave lived in Death Valley since time im-memorial. . . . "With Patton on Desert Ma-neuvers" by Weldon F. Lleald—troops learnabout the enemy called heat. . . . "A SummerVisit to the Panamints" by Harold O. Weight— cool country on the inferno's lip. . . ."Protecting Visitors to the Valley" by Ro-land Wauer — how the Park Service keepstab on 70,000-plus'summer visitors to DeathValley. . . . "Desert Ordeal: Lost on theMojave" by Mary Jones Blackwell •— a re-markable first-person account of a near dis-aster. . . . "Summer Routine for a Familyof Six" by Jean Valens Bullard — a DeathValley naturalist's wife discloses the house-wife's June to September routine. . . . "ANaturalist Looks at Summer Heat"by Edmund Jaeger—how plantsand animals adapt to hightemperatures. . . . "NaturalAir Conditioners of Iran"by William E. Warne—the former Point Fouradministrator for Irandiscusses an Old Worldsecret for beating theheat. . . . "On Leavingthe Valley CalledDeath" by Fred Binne-wies — an ex-Superin-tendent of Death ValleyNational Monument tellsabout the strange land hecame to love.In addition to these featurearticles, the award - winning issuecontained a Norton Allen map outliningrecord high temperatures for weather sta-tions throughout the Southwest; a samplingcf comments by visitors to Death Valley(ranging from "Enchanting" in January, to"Never Again" in July); a page of "heathumor" by Harry Oliver; and a RandallHenderson editorial on problems facingDeath Valley.The 1961 Gold Medal was
Desert's
secondaward in as many State Fair attempts.A limited number of "Summer Heat" is-sues are available from: Back Issue Depart-ment,
Desert Magazine,
Palm Desert,
Calif.
 
BOOKS SOUTHWEST...
3or
Christmas
(jiving
Choice Titles from DESERT MAGAZINE BOOK STORE'S '61-62 Catalog
World's Largest Selection of Books Devoted Exclusively to the Desert Southwest
SOUTHWEST HISTORY
THE DESERT, TODAY
AND
YESTERDAY. Randall Henderson.
The
founder
and
former editor
of
Desert Magazine draws
on his
vastknowledge
of the
Southwest
to put
together
a
book
of his
experi-ences
and
observations. Almost half
a
century
of
desert living
is
compounded
in
Henderson's book. Many photographs.
$5
k
PHOTO ALBUM
OF
YESTERDAY'S SOUTHWEST. Compiled
by
CharlesShelton.
Documentation
of the
desert Southwest from
the
1860s
to
1910 through
the
camera's lens. Early-day photographs show
the
explorers,
the
prospectors,
the
miners,
the
cowboys,
the
desperados,the ordinary people,
as
they were, before glamour
and
varnish wereapplied
to
trie legend
of the Old
West. Highest quality printing.195 photographs. Hand
set
type. Embossed black
and
gold hardcover. Special gift
for
those
who
collect Westerniana
$15
YOUR DESERT
AND
MINE. Nina Paul Shumway.
A
delightful
per-
sonal account
of a
family's early-day experiences
in the
CoachellaValley, with much valuable history
of the
date palm industry. PalmSprings, Indio,
the
Salton
Sea,
sand dunes
and the
Santa
Rosa
moun-tains
are all
seen through
the
eyes
of a
young woman meeting
the
desert
for the
first time. Illustrated, more than
300
pages $6.75VANISHED ARIZONA. RECOLLECTIONS
OF MY
ARMY LIFE. MarthaSummerhayes.
4th
edition
of
first printing.
A
story about Army lifein
the
1870s
as
seen through
the
eyes
of the
wife
of a
Lieutenantin
the 8th
Infantry.
33
illustrations. Cloth cover
- _
$7.50
COMSTOCK MINING
AND
MINERS. Eliot Lord.
A
history
of the
Comstock Lode
of
Virginia City, Nevada.
A
reprint
of the 1883 edi-
tion,
with introduction
by
David
F.
Myrick.
578
pages.
117
unusualand rare illustrations.
2
area maps. Hard cover. $8.50
TOMBSTONE. Walter Noble Burns.
Story
of the
"Town
too
tough
to
die."
Guntoting, cattle rustling days
in Old
Arizona.
As
history
it is
accurate,
as
story
it
holds
you
spellbound $3.95
PONY EXPRESS—THE GREAT GAMBLE.
Roy S.
Bloss.
A
well-researchedbook that deals with
the
business
and
politics
of the
Pony Expressmore than with
the
adventures
of the
daring riders.
An
excellentreference
for
students
of the
Pony Express. Excellent historic photosand illustrations. Hardback.
160
pages $4.50
HOLE-IN-THE-ROCK. David
E.
Miller.
This well-illustrated book
by a
trained Utah historian,
is the
best available
on the
amazing MormonHole-in-the-Rock expedition
of
1879-80. Maps,
229
pages $5.50
LOST OASES, ALONG
THE
CARRIZO.
E. I.
Edwards.
Little
is
knowntoday
of
this lost oasis
in the
isolated corridor
of the
Colorado
des-
ert that once
was the
stopping place
for
soldiers, gold seekers
and
emigrants into California. One-half
of the
book concerns itself withthis corridor
and the
other half
is a
descriptive bibliography
of
California's Colorado Desert. Companion volume
to
DESERT VOICES.Gold stamped, hard cover. $12.50
*
For more information on this deluxe volume,see pages
37
and
43.
OUTLAW TRAIL. Charles Kelly.
The
corrected second edition
of an
illustrated classic about western outlaw Butch Cassidy
and his
"WildBunch."Trains
and
banks were their targets.
One of the
best outlawreports.
Map and
index
$6
FRONTIER MILITARY POSTS
OF
ARIZONA.
Ray
Brandes.
A
collectionof
the
colorful history
of old
forts
in
Arizona.
An
attractive volumewith photos
and
drawings
of
equipment used
by the
Indian-fightingtroops. Washable vinyl cloth binding.
_
$2.25
THE BONANZA TRAIL. Muriel
Sibell
Wolle.
The
story
of
more than200
old
mining towns
and
camps
of the
West. Pencil sketches. $8.95
YUMA CROSSING. Douglas
D.
Martin.
Tales
of
four centuries
of
history when
the
Yuma crossing
was
once
the
only safe ford
of the
Colorado River—of
sea
captains, Indians, missionaries, scouts $2.50
ARIZONA'S DARK
AND
BLOODY GROUND. Earle
R.
Forrest.
This
is
the fourth printing
of an
authenticated account
of the
ruthlessGraham-Tewksbury cattle
war in
Arizona's Pleasant Valley from
1882
to
1892.
More than
a
score
of men
died
in
this westernfeud.-
$5
ARIZONA
IN THE 50s.
James
H.
Tevis.
The
breathtaking memoirs
of
Captain Tevis
on his
march through Arizona
in 1857,
when lawless-ness
was the
order
of the day. 237
pages
$2
BUTTERFIELD OVERLAND MAIL. Waterman
L.
Ormsby.
The
authorwas
the
only through passenger
on the
first Westbound stage
in
1858.
His
reports
are
reprinted, with informative notes, maps,
and
index. Lively
and
exciting reading.
179
pages
—
$4.50
THE STORY
OF
BODIE. Ella
M.
Cain.
A
vivid narrative
of one of the
wildest, toughest mining camps
in the
West, told
by a
woman
who
was born there. Index. Photos. Paper bound, $2.50. Cloth,
$4
DEATH VALLEY TALES.
A
Death Valley '49er publication. Nine
writers have written true chapters from
the
drama-crammed past
of
the Death Valley region.
59
pages, paper.-
-$1
DEATH VALLEY
IN '49.
William Lewis Manly.
Written
in his own
words,
the
classic
of
Death Valley crossing;
the
day-by-day amazingaccount
of how
Manly
and his
party survived many hardships $6.50
20 MULE TEAM DAYS
IN
DEATH VALLEY. Harold
O.
Weight. Story
of
the
most colorful episode
in
western mining history,
as
revealedby
the
old-timers,
and
from
the
records
of the
period
$1
LOAFING ALONG DEATH VAILEY TRAILS. William Caruthers. From
a store
of
excellent material gained through
25
years
on
DeathValley Trails, this
is "a
personal narrative
of
people
and
places,"
of
such people
as
Shorty Harris, Charles Brown
and
many others...$4.25
THE MANLY
MAP AND THE
MANLY STORY. Ardis
M.
Walker.
One
of
the
epics
of
southwestern history: that
of the
heroic struggle
of
Wm.
Lewis Manly
and
John Rogers
and
their companions throughDeath Valley. Reproduction
of
their
map.
Paper.--
_ _ $1
GOODBYE, DEATH VAILEY. Burr Belden.
A
Death Valley '49erpubli-cation.
The 1849
Jayhawker escape from
the
Valley
of
Death.
Jay-
hawker census. Bibliography.
64
pages
_ _
-$1.25
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