CONTENTS 



Chapter I. The Approach. — Desert mountain ranges 

 — Early morning approach — Air illusions — Sand forms — 

 The winds — Sun-shafts — Sunlight — Desert life — Ante- 

 lope — The Lost Mountains — The ascent — Deer trails — 

 Footprints — The stone path — Defensive walls — The sum- 

 mit — The fortified camp — Nature's reclamations — The 

 mountain dwellers — Invading hosts— "Water and food 

 supplies — The aborigines — Historic periods — The open 

 desert — Perception of beauty — Sense of beauty — Moun- 

 tain "view" of the desert — Desert colors — The land of 

 fire — Drouth and heat— Sand and gypsum— Sand- whirls — 

 Desert storms — Drift of sands — Winter cold in the basin 

 — Snow on desert — Sea and sand— Grim desolation — Love 

 for the desert — The descent — The Padres in the desert — 

 The light of the cross — Aboriginal faith 1 



Chafteb II. The Make of the Desert. — The sea of 

 sand — Mountain ranges on desert— Plains, valleys, and 

 mesas — Effect of drouth — The rains — Harshness of des- 

 ert — A gaunt land — Conditions of life — Incessant strife 

 — Elemental warfai^e — Desert vegetation — Protruding 

 edges — Shifting sands — Desert winds— Badiation of heat 

 — Preva,lling winds — Wear of the winds — Erosion of 

 mountains — Rock-cutting — Fantastic forms — Wash-outs 

 — Sand-lines in caves — Cloud-bursts — Canyon waters — 

 Desert floods — Power of water — Water-pockets — No 

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