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050 00 $aF866$b.A9318 1903
100 1 $aAustin, Mary Hunter,$d1868-1934.
245 14 $aThe land of little rain,$cby Mary Austin.
260 $aBoston,$aNew York,$bHoughton, Mifflin and company,$c1903.
300 $axi p., 2 l., 280, [2] p.$bfront., illus.$c22 cm.
500 $aIllustrated by E. Boyd Smith.
505 0 $aThe land of little rain.--Water trails of the Ceriso.--The scavengers.--The pocket hunter.--Shoshone land.--Jimville, a Bret Harte town.--My neighbor's field.--The Mesa trail.--The basket maker.--The streets of the mountains.--Water borders.--Other water borders.--Nurslings of the sky.--The little town of the grape vines.
520 $aMary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native American poetry. The land of little rain (1903), Austin's first book, focuses on the arid and semi-arid regions of California between the High Sierras south of Yosemite: the Ceriso, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert; and towns such as Jimville, Kearsarge, and Las Uvas. She writes of the region's climate, plants, and animals and of its people: the Ute, Paiute, Mojave, and Shoshone tribes; European-American gold prospectors and borax miners; and descendants of Hispanic settlers.
530 $aAlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
540 $aNo known restrictions on publication.
651 0 $aCalifornia$xSocial life and customs.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zCalifornia.
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