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Book/Printed Material The land of little rain,

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Title

  • The land of little rain,

Summary

  • Mary 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 recognized 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. American Memory.

Names

  • Austin, Mary, 1868-1934

Created / Published

  • Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903.

Contents

  • The 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.

Headings

  • -  California--Social life and customs
  • -  Frontier and pioneer life--California

Notes

  • -  Illustrated by E. Boyd Smith.
  • -  Also available in digital form.

Medium

  • xi p., 2 l., 280, [2] p. front., illus. 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F866 .A9318 1903

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 03026358

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • online text
  • image
  • pdf

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"California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900.

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Chicago citation style:

Austin, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/03026358/.

APA citation style:

Austin, M. (1903) The Land of Little Rain. Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/03026358/.

MLA citation style:

Austin, Mary. The Land of Little Rain. Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1903. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/03026358/>.