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Summary Table of Contents

The first literary anthology devoted to Californias fabled desert region. Contains well-known desert-region writers like Edward Abbey, Mary Austin, Victor Villasenor, and Barry Lopez but also offers surprises like Joan Didion, Hunter Thompson, Pearl Bailey and many more.

Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Map	p. xv
Dangers of the Desert
The Land of Little Rain	p. 3
No Place for a Puritan	p. 9
From Desert Country	p. 11
Sleep in the Mojave Desert	p. 23
From "Death Valley"	p. 24
The Desert Cries	p. 26
Mirage	p. 31
From P... MOREoint Last Seen	p. 32
Bitch bitch bitch	p. 38
Crossings, Past and Present
Font's Complete Diary: A Chronicle of the Foundings of San Francisco	p. 47
First Conflict with Americans	p. 51
From Death Valley in '49	p. 56
Journal excerpts, Pacific Railroad Survey, 1853	p. 61
From a letter to the Atla California, July 1, 1866	p. 64
From The White Heart of Mojave	p. 67
From Travels with Charley	p. 69
From Macho!	p. 74
From "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"	p. 79
From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	p. 82
Leaving Palm Springs	p. 87
Refuge And Exile
Massacre at Desert Hot Springs	p. 91
From McTeague	p. 95
From Willie Boy	p. 100
Songs My Mother Taught Me	p. 104
Self-Portrait on the Border Between Mexico and the United States (1932)	p. 113
From Farewell to Manzanar	p. 114
From Play it as it Lays	p. 119
From Aquaboogie	p. 125
A Dog Turns Back When You Turn Back	p. 135
Irregular Flight	p. 138
Loss, Revival, and Retributions (Neon Desert Collage)	p. 147
Lure of the Desert
Desert Center	p. 151
From The Desert	p. 152
From The Great California Deserts	p. 155
From The Man Who Walked Through Time	p. 160
How To Be a Desert Rat and Like It	p. 162
In the Desert	p. 163
Bagdad Chase Road in July	p. 165
Mojave Narrows	p. 166
Minding Desert Places/Winter-4 P.M	p. 167
From Into the Wild	p. 168
From "West, Old Man"	p. 172
From Twenty Thousand Roads	p. 185
Climbing at Joshua Tree	p. 188
Rocks in the Shape of Billy Martin	p. 190
Making The Desert Home
Chemehuevi Indian Creation	p. 197
From First Families	p. 202
The Birds	p. 208
From Desert Wildlife	p. 211
Desert Refuge 3 (October 1941)	p. 214
Life on the Desert	p. 219
From A Mine of Her Own	p. 223
Stampede for Jackrabbit Homesteads Deluges Los Angeles Land Office	p. 230
From The Desert Was Home	p. 232
From My Life on the Mojave	p. 238
From The Raw Pearl	p. 240
The Salt	p. 243
Shoshone Indian Homeland Statement to Congress	p. 255
The Changing Desert-A New Type of Beast
From Hoover Dam	p. 259
From Cadillac Desert	p. 262
From Your Desert and Mine	p. 265
From Juniper Blue	p. 269
California Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 58-Relative to the Doctor June McCarroll Memorial Freeway	p. 281
From The Man Who Captured Sunshine	p. 283
Speech at Coachella, 1973	p. 289
From Welcome to Saint Angel	p. 291
Near the Desert Test Sites	p. 295
From Savage Dreams	p. 297
What the Fire Forgot	p. 301
From 'Isill H�qwas W�xish	p. 303
Conserving And Protecting the Land
Postcard from Above	p. 309
At the Bomb Testing Site	p. 312
Long Odds	p. 313
From Still Wild, Always Wild	p. 314
From All the Wild and Lonely Places	p. 319
From The Mysterious Lands	p. 324
From "The Stone Horse"	p. 330
Premissions	p. 339
Author Index	p. 345
About the Editor	p. 351
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