Description
Hoofprints, Published 1991. Paperback, xiv, 239 pp.; 22 x 28 cm; First Edition (stated First Printing); illustrated with black-and-white photographs and hand-drawn trail maps throughout.
Rare, out-of-print & unusual books · Since 1997
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers show light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and mild shelf wear, with a hint of color loss along edges and spine. Original 24.95 price sticker on back cover. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Oblong guide to the horseback trails of the Palm Springs region, equal parts trail guide and local history. Foreword by Frank M. Bogert, Palm Springs' cowboy mayor, with a reproduced 1991 letter from Gene Autry. Covers the Indian Canyon trails, Coachella Valley, San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountains, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, and the Morongo Basin, with hand-drawn trail maps, parking and accommodation notes, and profiles of desert horsemen including Agua Caliente tribal chairman Richard Milanovich, photographer George Aquino, and the Desert Riders club. Photographs from the Bogert collection, Palm Springs Historical Society, and the Agua Caliente Indian Tribal Council. Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Palm Springs Area History from the Horsemen's Point of View; Indian Canyon Trails; Indio for the Horseman, Past, Present and Future; Palms to Pines; Anza Borrego Desert State Park; Morongo Basin; Good Long Trails and Famous Cowboys.