Rockhounding the Wiley's Well District of California: The GPS User's Guide
Having earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Delmer Ross began a career in teaching in 1970. At present he is a professor of history at La Sierra University, in Riverside, California. He is the author of several books dealing with the history of transportation, including Gold Road to La Paz, a mainly historical guide to the Bradshaw Trail, an old gold-rush trail in western Arizona and southeastern California.CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) Professor Ross, who learned to drive in a Jeep, is a four-wheel-drive enthusiast who enjoys driving his Blazer over old historical trails and roads. Portions of many are no longer in use and present interesting challenges to anyone who attempts to travel over them today. Ross found the Colorado Desert-an extension of the Sonoran Desert in southeastern California-to have many such old routes.CHAR(13) + CHAR(10) A rockhound from an early age, Ross also found the Wiley's Well District in the Colorado Desert to be exceptionally rich in collectable material such as jasper, agate, and geodes. The problem has been reaching the good locations found by other rockhounds. He started writing articles about such places, giving their history and providing very exact GPS coordinates to guide others to them. The articles have been so well received that he has collected them, added to them, and now offers them in convenient book form to other hobbyists. CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)