SouthWestSlide:
Spring 2004

A journal of a journey across Desert Rat country
by Ric Carter

NEW MATERIAL

CONTENTS

  • NOTES: transcribed
    Meditations: Why Travel?
    Liar's Contest: My Story
    Essay: Earth Is Shrinking
    Black Magick In Mexico
    Tips 4 Stagecoach Riders
    Found: GILA MONSTERS
    New Stuff: Books/Videos
    Play: The Bisbee Game etc
    and RRN: Desert Edition
  • THEMES: songs

  • ACCOUNTS

  • JOURNALS index
  • Go2 Newsletter
  • Eat It! Food News
  • SkeptiLog: Sightings

  • Ridge Rat News
  • River Rat News
  • Desert Rat News
  • hc: hardcover
    nj: no jacket
    pb: paperback
    tpb: trade paperback
    pf: paperback folio
    lib: library discard



    Books Acquired

    In Laws CA, 31 March 2004

  • BAGOMBO SNUFF BOX by Kurt Vonnegut (Berkley, New York, 2000) 360pp, tpb
  • HOTEL PASTIS: A Novel of Provence, by Peter Mayle (Knopf, New York, 1993) 392pp, hc/nj, 1st US ed.

    In Pomona CA, 2 April 2004

  • ADOBE de PALOMARES by Bess Adams Garner and Miriam Colcord Post (Pomona Valley Historical Society, 1940-1962) 32pp, pf/reprint
  • RANCHO SAN JOSE 1837-1987 by Dr. Gloria Lothrop (Pomona Valley Historical Society, 1987) 28pp, pf
  • WINDOWS in an OLD ADOBE by Bess Adams Garner (Pomona Valley Historical Society, 1939-2003) 246pp, hc, 3rd ed.

    In Borrego Springs CA, 3 April 2004

  • ANCIENT LIFE AMONG the SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIANS by M.R. Harrington (Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, 1955) 38pp. pf/reprint

    In Hope AZ, 10 April 2004

  • DICK HALL OF SALOME: The Story of a Most Unusual Westerner, by Peter Odens (Southwest Printers, Yuma, 1972) 72pp, pf

    In Prescott AZ, 12 April 2004

  • ARABIAN NIGHTS FAIRY TALES illus. by Charlotte Becker (JH Sears, New York, 1928) 244pp, hc/nj
  • ARIZONA SKETCH BOOK: Fifty Historical Sketches, by Frank Cullen Brophy (Ampco Press, Phoenix, 1952) 310pp, hc, 1st ed., lib.
  • El Palacio, Vol 75/4, Winter 1968 (Albuquerque) 64pp, pf
  • The ESSENTIAL RUMI trans. by Coleman Barks et al (Castle, Edison NJ, 1997) 302pp, hc
  • FORTY-NINERS: The Chronicle of the California Trail, by Archer Butler Hulbert (Little Brown, Boston, 1931) 340pp, hc/nj, 1st ed.
  • I, RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ: An Indian Woman In Guatemala, by Rigoberta Menchú (Verso, London/NewYork, 1984) 252pp, tpb
  • ILLUSTRATED GUIDE to LOUGH GUR, Co. Limerick, by M.J. & C. O'Kelly (O'Kelly, Cork Eire, 1981) 38pp, pf, 3rd pr.
  • LOST MINES and HIDDEN TREASURE by Leland Lovelace (Naylor, San Antonio, 1956) 252pp, hc/nj, 5th pr.

  • The MADAMS of SAN FRANCISCO: A Highly Irreverent History of the City by the Golden Gate, by Curt Gentry (Doubleday, Garden City NY, 1964) 324pp, hc, 1st ed?
  • The MASTER of the MICROBE: A Fantastic Romance, by Robert W. Service (Barse & Hopkins, New York, 1926) 424pp, hc/nj, 1st ed?
  • The METAPHYSICS of STAR TREK by Richard Hanley (BasicBooks, 1997) 254pp, hc, 1st ed.
  • PADRE IGNACIO or THE SONG OF TEMPTATION, by Owen Wister (Harper, New York, 1911) 68pp, hc/nj
  • SEÑOR BUM in the JUNGLE by Algo Sand, illus. by Robert Rotter (National Travel CLub, New York, 1932) 328pp, hc/nj, 1st ed?
  • RACCOONS Are the BRIGHTEST PEOPLE by Sterling North (Dutton, New York, 1966) 192pp, hc, bc
  • SONGS and SONG WRITERS by Henry T. Finck (Scribners, New York, 1928) 254pp, hc/nj
  • TOURING the PUEBLOS: A Travel Guide, by Ron Swartley (Frontier Image Press, Las Cruces NM, 1994) 172pp, tpb, 2nd ed.

    In Prescott AZ, 13-14 April 2004

  • Frontier Gazette, Spring 2004 (Prescott AZ) 60pp, pf
  • INVENTING BILLY the KID: Visions of the Outlaw in America 1881-1981, by Stephen Tatum (Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1982) 242pp, hc, lib.
  • KATE T. CORY: Artist of Arizona 1861-1958, by Ginger Johnson (G Johnson, Prescott AZ, 1996) 24pp, pf
  • The LAND of POCO TIEMPO by Charles F. Lummis (Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1893-1975) 236pp, tpb
  • TRADERS to the NAVAJOS: The Story of the Wetherills of Kayenta, by Frances Gillmor and Louisa Wade Wetherill (Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1934-1983) 266pp, tpb
  • WINDOW on the WEST: Views From The American Frontier (The Phelan Collection), by Eleanor Jones Harvey (Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington DC, 2002) 24pp, pf

    In Jerome AZ, 15 April 2004

  • The FETISH CARVERS of ZUNI, by Marian Rodee and James Ostler (Univ. New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1990) 88pp, tpb
  • IMAGES of HOPI 1904-1939 by Trudy Thomas (Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, 1991) 32pp, pf
  • NAVAJO WEAVERS - NAVAJO SILVERSMITHS by Dr. Washington Matthews, U.S.A. (Filter Press, Palmer Lake CO, 1880-1968) 38pp, pf
  • SOUTHWESTERN INDIAN JEWELRY by Dexter Cirillo (Abbeville Press, New York, 1992) 240pp, hc

    In Cottonwood AZ, 17 April 2004

  • WORKING NORTH From PATAGONIA by Harry A. Franck (Garden City, 1921) 650pp, hc/nj, 1st ed?
  • ALLADIN and HIS WONDERFUL LAMP and Other Oriental Tales, by Sterling?? (Whitman Publishing, Racine WI, 1916) 90pp, hc/nj, 1st ed?

    in Globe AZ, 22 April 2004

  • BESH BA GOWAH ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK Interpretive Guide, by Charles R. Bigando, Jr. (Globe AZ, 1987) 42pp, pf

    in Coronado NatlMem AZ, 24 April 2004

  • The Smoke Signal, No.29, Spring 1974 (Tucson AZ) 28pp, pf/reprint

    in Bisbee AZ, 28 April 2004

  • CARONI GOLD by L.R. Dennison (Hastings House, New York, 1943) 274pp, hc/nj, lib
  • A GARDEN of SAND by Earl Thompson (Carroll & Graf, New York, 1970-2001) 510pp, tpb
  • PO PAI MO: The Search For White Buffalo Woman, by Robert Boissiere (Sunstone Press, Santa Fe, 1983) 96pp, tpb

    in Bisbee AZ, 29 April 2004

  • BLACK SPRING by Henry Miller (Grove Press, New York, 1963) 244pp, hc
  • The CHINESE DRAGON in TOMBSTONE by Ben T. Traywick (1989) 36pp, pf
  • CENTRAL AMERICAN JUNGLES by Don Moser (Time-Life, New York, 1975) 184pp, hc/nj
  • The FIESTA LANDS: Through Mexico and Central America on a Shoestring, by Norman D. Ford (Harian, Greenlawn NY, 1953-60) 212pp, tpb
  • HOW GREEN WAS MY FATHER: A Sort of Travel Diary, by David Dodge (Simon & Shuster, New York, 1950) 218pp, hc/nj, lib.
  • Maledicta, vol. I/1+2 (1977), vol. II/1+2 (1978) (Maledicta Press, Waukesha WI) tpb
  • RED SAND by T.S. Stribling (Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1924) 334pp, hc
  • A TREASURY of AMERICAN FOLK HUMOR ed. by James N. Tidwell (Crown, New York, 1956) 218pp, hc/nj, 1st ed?

    in Bisbee AZ, 7 May 2004

  • ARIZONA 101: An Irreverant Short Course for New Arrivals, by James E. Cook (Cocinero Press, Phoenix AZ, 1981) pb, 2nd ed.
  • A COMPOSER's WORLD by Paul Hindemith (Anchor Books, Garden City NY, 1961) 264pp, pb
  • DON QUIXOTE of the MANCHA by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (PF Collier, New York, 1909-1970) 520pp, hc/nj
  • Don't Know Much About the CIVIL WAR by Kenneth C Davis (Avon, New York, 1996) 520pp, tpb
  • Easy Field Guide to the SouthWestern NIGHT SKY by Dan Helm (American Traveler Press, Phoenix AZ, 1997) 32pp, pf
  • FIRST-TIME EUROPE by Louis CasaBianca (Rough Guides, London, 1997) 248pp, tpb
  • Granta, No.65, Spring 1999 (London) 352pp, tpb
  • MAGIC EYES: Scenes from an Andean Girlhood, from stories told by Alicia & María Vásquez, by Wendy Ewald (Bay Press, Seattle, 1992) 180pp, tpb
  • The THIRD TWIN by Ken Follet (Crown, New York, 1996) 424pp, hc/nj, 1st ed.

    in Portal AZ, 11 May 2004

  • GERONIMO - His Own Story As Told to S.M. Barrett (Penguin Meridian, New York, 1906-96) 190pp, tpb
  • DESERT WILDFLOWERS (Arizona Native Plant Society, Tucson, 1991) 48pp, pf
  • DESERT GRASSES (Arizona Native Plant Society, Tucson, 1993) 44pp, pf
  • DESERT SHRUBS (Arizona Native Plant Society, Tucson, 1990) 36pp, pf
  • DESERT ACCENT PLANTS (Arizona Native Plant Society, Tucson, 1992) 52pp, pf
  • DESERT BIRD GARDENING (Arizona Native Plant Society, Tucson, 1997) 36pp, pf

    at Carlsbad Caverns NM, 15 May 2004

  • The DISCOVERY and HISTORY of CARLSBAD CAVERNS by James Larkin White (Carlsbad Caverns Guadelupe Mountains Association, 1932-1998) 194pp, tpb

    at White Sands NM, 21 May 2004

  • A Trip Through Space and Time: Las Cruces to Cloudcroft, by Russell E. Clements (New Mexico Bureau of Mines, Socorro, 1996) 194pp, tpb

    at Chaco Canyon NM, 31 May 2004

  • CHACO: A CULTURAL LEGACY, by Michal Strutin (Western Natl Parks Assn, Tucson AZ, 1997) 64pp, tpb
  • IMAGINING INDIANS: Persistant Visions of a Primitive Past, by Leah Dilworth (Smithsonian, Washington, 1996) 274pp, tpb

    at Monument Valley UT, 2 June 2004

  • The HOGAN: The Traditional Navajo Home, by Scott Thybony (Western Natl Parks Assn, Tucson AZ, 1999) 16pp, pf
  • SOUTHWEST INDIAN WEAVING by Mark Bahti, photos by Bruce Hucko (KC Publications, Las Vegas NV, 2001) 48pp, tpb
  • MONUMENT VALLEY: The Story Behind the Scenery, by K.C. DenDooven, photos by Josef Muench and Bruce Hucko (KC Publications, Las Vegas NV, 2001) 64pp, tpb

    at Navajo NatMon AZ, 3 June 2004

  • KINALDÁ: A Navajo Girl Grows Up, by Monty Roessel (Lerner, Minneapolis, 1993) 48pp, tpb
  • A GUIDE to HOPI KATSINA CARVINGS by Rose Houk (Western Natl Parks Assn, Tucson AZ, 2003) 48pp, pb

    at Kanab UT, 5 June 2004

  • ART ON THE EDGE AND OVER: Searching for Art's Meaning in Con­temp­orary Society 1970s-1990s, by Linda Weintraub (Art Insights, Litchfield CT, 1996) 264pp, tpb
  • BLOODSUCKING FIENDS: A Love Story, by Christopher Moore (Avon, New York, 1995) 300pp, tpb
  • BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE by Peter Fleming (Scribners, New York, 1934) 412pp, hc/nj, 1st.ed?
  • CARTOONING the HEAD and FIGURE by Jack Hamm (Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1967) 120pp, tpb
  • DEATH DREAM by Ben Bova (Bantam, New York, 1994) 564pp, pb
  • INDIANS of the SOUTHWEST in Full Color (Petley Studios, Phoenix AZ) 32pp, pf
  • MOVIEMAKING: Canyon Country Chronicles, by Greer K. Chesher (Can­yon­lands Natural History Assn, Moab UT, 2003) 20pp, pf
  • MYTHS and LEGENDS of the INDIANS of the SOUTHWEST (II): Hopi, Acoma, Tewa, Zuni, by Beth Dutton & Caroline Olin (Bellerophon, Santa Barbara CA, 1991) 48pp, pf


  • Videos Acquired

    in San Diego CA, 7 April 2004

  • Lara Croft: TOMB RAIDER - Paramount, 2001, DVD

    in Prescott AZ, 12 April 2004

  • Monty Python's LIFE of BRIAN - Paragon, 1984, DVD
  • Sarah, Plain & Tall: WINTER'S END - Hallmark, 1999, VHS

    at Chaco Canyon NM, 31 May 2004

  • The MYSTERY of CHACO CANYON - Bullfrog, 2003, DVD





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