Author: Louis L'AmourPublisher:
ISBN: 9780553229998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Mojave Crossing #06
Author: Louis L'AmourPublisher:
ISBN: 9780553229998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Mojave Crossing
Author: Louis L'AmourPublisher:
ISBN: 9781581650129
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Mojave Road
Author: Dennis G. CasebierPublisher:
ISBN: 9780914224044
Category : Mohave Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Presents a history of the Mojave Road, originally an Indian trail, from the first explorations in the 1820s to its years as a wagon road in the 1870s and 80s, focusing on that portion of the road from the California Desert to the Colorado River.
Oversight Hearings on Library Services and Construction Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Postsecondary EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
SR 58 to Mojave Freeway, Construction, Kern County
Author: Mohave Crossing
Author: Louis L'AmourThe White Heart of Mojave; an Adventure with the Outdoors of the Desert
Author: Edna Brush PerkinsPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230468815
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... II How We Found Mojave WHEN the automobile was delivered into our hands at Los Angeles we wanted to turn around immediately and drive back through the Cajon Pass into the Mojave Desert, but our inquiries about directions met with discouragement on every side. It seemed to be unheard of for two women to attempt such a thing; the distances between the towns where we could get accommodations were too great and the roads were apt to have long stretches of sand where we would get stuck. Our friends drew a dismal picture of us sitting out in the sagebrush beside a disabled car and slowly starving to death. "You could not fix it," they said, "and what would you do?" We suggested that we might wait until somebody came along. They assured us that nobody ever came along. We went to the Automobile Club; they received us with enthusiasm and told us about all the places California is proud of and how to get to them, but California seems not to be proud of the desert, for when we mentioned it our advisers became gloomy. They seemed to have no very definite information and were sure we would not like it. In the face of so much discouragement we hardly dared to ask about Death Valley and when we did, hesitatingly, the question was ignored. We simply could not get there, nobody ever went. The Imperial Valley seemed to be almost as bad. One of the maps they gave us showed a main highway from San Diego over into it, but they said that it was only a gravel road, mountainous and steep, and that we had better stick to the main routes. Evidently they had no faith in our skill as drivers, nor belief in our purpose, so we soon gathered up the maps and innumerable folders about resort hotels, thanked them, and went our way. The collection contained no map of the...
The White Heart of Mojave
Author: Edna Brush PerkinsPublisher: E-Artnow
ISBN: 9788027388103
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Prairie Traveler
Author: Randolph Barnes MarcyPublisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Mojave Crossing
Author: Louis L'AmourPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sackett family (Fictitious characters)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Tell Sackett meets the beautiful Dorinda Robiseau, traveling lady of wit and nerve. Tell is carrying thirty pounds of gold. The young man raised in the mountains begins to wonder if their meeting is a coincidence, especially when the woman convinces him to guide her across the desert to Los Angeles. Tell knows a lot about the desert, but a woman can make him forget what he knows. The trail is strewn with bad men and natural obstacles. One of the men he must face is Nolan Sackett, one of the so-called outlaw Sacketts, a descendant of Yance who settled in the Clinch Mountains. Sackett must meet Sackett. Time period: 1875.