Epigraph
This is a book of unique interest about out-door life in the arid region of Southeastern California. It describes the marvels of the desert, the Indian, the Greaser, and the gold-hunter, the strange birds and beasts and flowers of that region, with extraordinary fidelity.
“What John Muir has done for the western slopes of the Sierras, with their solemn forests and their mysterious silences, Mrs. Austin does in a more tender and intimate fashion for the eastern slopes.”
—Brooklyn Eagle.
“Breezy, natural, entertaining and racy of the soil.”—Chicago Record-Herald.