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Photograph by John L. Blackford
YUCCA PEACE
By
EDNA O'BRIEN
Ontario, CaliforniaThey
left
the small rooms.The narrow walls, the giddySpeed and loud distractions
Of a rushing city
And came as weary strangers
Into a larger space
Where nothing louder wasThan desert wind. A placeWhere traffic was untamedCoyote, lizard, hareAnd other small
earthlings
That quietly go unnamed.They came into a worldOf juniper-command.Of rock-serenity.Of yucca-peace and sand.They came into a placeWhere sounds were whisperingsAnd something in their eyesAwoke and spread bright wings.
BUDDING RODS
By ALICE TENNESON
HAWKINS
San Pedro, California
DESERT RAINBOW
By
ANNA
A.
LINDSAY
Encino,
CaliforniaFinallyThe road escaped its mountain trapWith a writhing lurchThat hurled it out upon the desert floorFlattened, parched, despairing in its searchFor watered places.But there in front a rainbow archedAnd the grateful road.Uncaring for a pot of gold.Treasured the thought insteadFhLit where there is a rainbowThere is rain.And straight into the rainbowForged ahead.I do not doubt that Aaron's ro<With miracle of buds for I have
np:i(l
nrirHv tir»v nf /•»/»rvtJ11*-» fie
rod burst green..iiracie ot
DUOS
ror I nave seenDead, prickly, tips of ocotillo flameWith flowers when the desert springtimecame.
and
By
TANYA
SOUTH
Heaven's for the takingHere and now.Life is for the making
If you allow
The little elements of HopeAnd Faith and Love to play their partIn every inch you upward grope.
And give you heart.All valiantly, up ever higher
To aspire.
Setttwel'De&eit
By
ELLEN
BAI
LARD RUHERG
Santa Barbara, CaliforniaLonely sentinel of arid, desert lands,Standing serene beneath the sun's fie
ce
rays,
Or calm and silent amid storm-sand
blast,
On watch through silver nights and goldendays.Yoti are a symbol of that patience, hopeand trustWhich bears with
fortitude
the cross youmust.Unmoved by buffelings of wind and cold.Your branches raised toward heaven's dome.Seem to say God's love will you enfolc —As His creatures small find in you a home.Teach me the secret of your spell—That in His peace. I. loo may dwell.• • •
ANGEL ON SAN JACINTO
By
PAUL WILHELM
Thousand Palms, California
Enduring
on the mountain sideIn touch with desert skyWhere silent years forever bideNor sunbeams ever die,Is an Angel carved in stoneIts wings of white unfurledWith granite beauty upward
blown
Above the desert world;An Angel in the peerless skiesBehold, this lovely thing!The unbelievers raise dull eyesAnd waking spirits sing;It watches through the doubtful niiihtStone Angel heart
ablaze,
Gleaming from San
Jacinto's
heightIt gladdens darkened days;For, lifting from the earth's gray mire.This Caller from HeavenAlights the torch of Angel fireA flame of hope to men.• • •
SUNSET IN THE PASS
By CLARINDA K. MERSHON
Cathedral City. CaliforniaWhen evening magenta cloaks Mount San
Jacinto
And shadows leave canyons for desertbelow;When the sun's goodnight glow Hoods
Gor-
gonio's turretsAnd dry sands bid welcome to cleanmountain snow;The winds then grow wild, the skies [illwith blackAnd white sands pile high on the fool-hills' broad back.But the storm soon subsides and coral
tints
blessThe landscape with quiet and soft uenlle-ncss.When evening magenta creeps down SanJacinto,God's pure light caresses his childrenbelow.In Motmt San Gorgonio's sunlight amishadow.He breathes down from Heaven to sethearts aglow.
DESERT MAGAZINE
 
DESERT CALENDAR
December
31 —
Deer Dance,
Sandia
Pueblo,
New
Mexico.December 31—Annual Pegleg SmithLiars' Contest, Borrego Valley,
Cal.
January
1-31—Special
exhibit
of In-
dian
beadwork
and
porcupine quillwork. Southwest Museum, HighlandPark,
Los
Angeles, California.January
1—Comanche
dances, Plaza.Rancho
de
Taos,
New
Mexico.January
1-3 —
Southern CaliforniaChapter, Sierra Club camping tripto Hidden Springs
and Box
Canyonin
the
Little
San
Bernardino Moun-tains near Indio, California.January
1-3—Desert
Peaks Section,Southern California Chapter, SierraClub climb
of
Rabbit Peak
in
SantaRosa range. Rendezvous
at Bor-
rego Springs, California.January 6—Three Kings'
Day
dance,Taos Pueblo, Taos,
New
Mexico.January 10—Don's Club Travelcadeon
the
Apache Trail. From Phoe-nix, Arizona.January
10
—
Desert
Sun
Ranchers'Rodeo. Wickenburg. Arizona.January
16
—
Deadline
for
entries,ninth annual International NaturePhotography Exhibition, NatureCamera Club
of
Chicago. Entryforms available from Blanche
Ko-
larik.
Box 52.
Apache Junction,Arizona.January 16-17—Southern CaliforniaChapter, Sierra Club natural
sci-
ence trip
to
Borrego State Park,California.January 16-17—Don's Club Travel-cade
to
Nogales. From Phoenix.Arizona.January
24 —
Desert
Sun
Ranchers'Rodeo. Wickenburg, Arizona.January 24—Don's Club Travelcadeto Pima Indian Reservation. FromPhoenix, Arizona.January 25—St. Paul's
Day
Dance.Taos Pueblo, Taos,
New
Mexico.January 31—Gold Rush Days, Wick-enburg. Arizona.
Volume
17
JANUARY,
1954
Number
1
COVERPOETRYCALENDARADVENTUREEXPERIENCEPHOTOGRAPHYEXPLORATIONFICTIONARCHEOLOGYCRAFTSLOST MINEGHOST TOWNDESERT QUIZCLOSE-UPSMININGNATURELETTERSNEWSHOBBYCONTESTLAPIDARYCOMMENTBOOKS
Daughters
of the
Navajo. Photo
in
color
by
CHUCK ABBOTT, Tucson.Sentinel
of the
Desert,
and
other poems
... 2
January events
on the
desert
3
Through
'The
Narrows'
to
ZionBy FREDA
B.
WALBRECHT
4
Life
on the
DesertBy
RAE VON
DORNUM
8
Pictures
of the
Month
9
Old Indian WaterholeBy RANDALL HENDERSON
10
Hard Rock Shorty
of
Death Valley
12
Bulldozers Followed
the
ArcheologistsBy DOROTHY
L.
PILLSBURY
13
Ancient Leather Craft Revived
17
The Lost Dutchman MineBy MARY
L.
BAGWELL
18
Golden Ghost
of the
Nevada HillsBy NELL MURBARGER
20
A True-False test
of
your desert knowledge
. . 24
About those
who
write
for
Desert
24
Current news
of
desert mines
25
Robber
Rat of the
DesertBy MARGARET OSBORN
26
Comment from Desert's readers
27
From Here
and
There
on the
Desert
29
Gems
and
Minerals
34
Prizes
for
photographers
40
Amateur
Gem
Cuter,
By
LELANDE QUICK
. . 41
Just Between
You and Me, by the
Editor
... 42
Reviews
of
Southwestern literature
43
he Desert
Magazine
is
published monthly
by
the
Desert Press,
Inc.,
Palm Desert.California. Re-entered
as
second class matter July
17, 1948, at the
postoffiee
at
I'alm
Desert,
California, under
the Act of
March
3, 1870.
Title registered
No.
358865
in
U.
S.
Patent Office,and contents copyrighted
1954 by the
Desert Press,
Inc.
Permission
to
reproduce contents
must
be
secured from
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editor
in
writing.RANDALL HENDERSON, EditorBESS STACY, Business ManagerMARGARET
GERKE,
Associate
Editor
EVONNE
RIDDELL,
Circulation
Manager
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