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Magazine

of the

OUTDOOR SOUTHWEST

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FEBRUARY, 196140 Cents

Hunting

Whale

HUNTING

THE

DESERTWHALE

Personal Adventuresin Baja California

ERLESTANLEYGARDNER

Abundantly illustrated withmany photographs by the author.

$6.00 everywhere

Thoroughly fascinating and delightful armchair adventuring, traveling

a

rare andwildly beautiful part

of

our

continent with

a

man who loves

it

and wants

to

shareit with his readers.

"A

stimulating, informal

and

informative personal adventure

. . .

on

a

faraway, starkly beautiful piece

of

the

Western shore. Fine, unpretentious."—

William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle

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-magazine

of

the

Outdoor Southwest-

CHARLES E. SHELTON

publisher

EUGENE L. CONROTTO

editor

EVONNE RIDDELL

circulation manager

Contents

for

February 1961

COVERLOST MINE 7EXPLORATION 11INDIANS 15NATURE 18HOMEMAKING 20HOBBY 21TRAVEL 24ADVENTURE 26TRAVEL 35ROAD TEST 36

The delicate yellow-gold blossoms of Opuntialittoralis—the Coast Prickly Pear cactus—adornthis month's cover. Photograph by Ralph D.Cornell of Los Angeles.La Posa Gold

Harold O. Weight

Carlsbad's Little-Known World

Natt N. Dodge

I Give You Na Nai

Laura Adams Armer

"Don't Bother Me" Garden

Edmund C. Jaeger

Stars In Their Eyes

Faun Sigler

Sand-Pressed Flowers

Patricia Booth

ConradiIndio and the Sea

Lucile Weight

Baja California Whales

Erie Stanley Gardner

Mt. Charleston Snow Country

Peggy Trego

British Land-Rover

Charles E. Shelton

— also —

Letters: 4New Southwest Books: 6Recipes: 6Desert Quiz: 10

39:

Trading Post Classifieds

41:

Poem of the Month

42:

Editorial

43:

1960 Literature Awards

Unsolicited manuscripts andphotographs submitted can-not be returned or acknowl-edged unless full returnpostage is enclosed. DesertMagazine assumes no re-sponsibility for damage orloss of manuscripts or pho-tographs although due carewill be exercised. Subscribersshould send notice of changeof address by the first ofthe month preceding issue.Address all editorial andcirculation correspondence toDesert Magazine, Palm Des-ert, California.Address all advertisingcorrespondence to James D.Going Associates, 560 N.Larchmont, Los Angeles,

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Calif. Phone HO 6-2854.The Desert Magazine, founded in 1937 by Randall Henderson, is published monthlyby Desert Magazine, Inc., Palm Desert, California. Re-entered as second classmatter July 17, 1948, at the postoffice at Palm Desert, California, under the Actof March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U.S. Patent Office, and contentscopyrighted 1961 by Desert Magazine, Inc. Permission to reproduce contents mustbe secured from the editor in writing.

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