Searches in the American desert
By: Sheila Cowing ; with photographs and maps by Walter Cowing and from various archives.
Contributors: Cowing, Walter C., ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: M.K. McElderry Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Deserts -- Southwest, New -- Juvenile literature.; Deserts -- California -- Juvenile literature.; Deserts -- West (U.S.); Southwest, New -- History -- Juvenile literature.; California -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Southwest, New -- History.; California -- History.
Description: Ten stories of desert explorations in which men and women, driven by dreams of discovery, searched for water, converts to Christianity, a homeland, and mineral treasure.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 163-169.