Description

Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California, Published 1972-1977. Four single issues, Wraps; 28 cm; black-and-white photographs throughout with color plates. Volume 35, Number 8, August 1972 (43 pp.; William Knyvett, publisher, Jack Pepper, editor; cover photo by Ray Manley); Volume 39, Number 2, February 1976 (47 pp.; cover reproduces "Black Eagle," an oil painting by James Zar); Volume 40, Number 4, April 1977 (46 pp.; cover photo by Howard Neal); Volume 40, Number 11, November 1977 (44 pp.; cover photo by Josef Muench). William and Joy Knyvett, publishers and editors, 1976-1977. In Good+ condition overall. Staple bound, bindings tight. Glossy pictorial covers with light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, light scuffing and some color loss along spines. November 1977 has a few small nicks and short tears along spine. Previous owner's address label on front covers of February 1976 and April 1977 and on rear cover of November 1977. Pages lightly toned, otherwise unmarked. Monthly magazine of the deserts of California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, with field-trip guides, ghost towns, lost mines, natural history, rockhounding and Western art, and each issue's Desert Magazine Book Shop list of regional titles. Highlights include Shorty Harris, the Death Valley prospector, remembered by a man who knew him; Tonopah's Jim Butler Days; Crucero and the abandoned Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad; a volunteer restoration of Marshal South's Ghost Mountain homestead in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park; a profile of Western painter James Zar; and Las Golondrinas, the Spanish colonial ranch near Santa Fe. Contents: August 1972: Malheur, A Desert Refuge; Lost Mine of Minnelusa Canyon; Hite's Cove; Riding Oregon's Rogue River; Indian Trails of '72; The Cactus Mouse, A Desert Dandy; New Mexico's Manzano Mountains. February 1976: Druid Arch; Belmont Never Gave Up the Ghost; Western Collared Lizard; She Carves in Fossil Stone; James Zar, Western Art; Dry Washing for Desert Gold; Las Golondrinas; The Time Machine; A Real Treat, Pyracantha Jelly. April 1977: Crucero, High Desert Crossing; Yellow Bellied Marmot; Palm and Fern Canyons; New Life on Ghost Mountain; Lyle Ball, Western Artist; Tonopah Booms in "Butler Days"; Mojave Desert Turquoise; Ephedra; Happenings at Hite. November 1977: Coronado National Memorial; Mexican Freetail Bat; Another California Gold; "Land of Little Rain" Now Recreation Empire; Death Valley's Hidden Dunes; Jornada del Muerto; Interagency Visitor Center; Shorty Harris and His Dog; Leadfield Died of Complications; Monsen Canyon; Schwab, California.