The Shadow Of The Arrow

LONG, M. D., MARGARET

Publication: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1941, Caldwell, Idaho

First edition. 8vo. Decorated cloth, light gray front and rear endpapers, 310 pp., acknowledgment, prologue, frontispiece, illustrated mostly from photographs, 5 maps, appendices, bibliography, index.

E. I. Edwards' "The Enduring Desert" p. 159 says : "Dr. Long has put together a carefully-written and authentic account of Death Valley, coupled with intelligent exploratory findings of the physical routes traversed by the emigrants of 1849 --- from Salt Lake, across Nevada, and thence to the Coast. The Doctor's book has not sustained itself by a parasitic nourishment upon the research of others. Here is a vigorous, first-hand contribution to Death Valley literature; one of the best, in my opinion, that has ever been made available. I would rate it among the first half-dozen Death Valley items of paramount importance." "Pp. 15-30, in a section entitled 'Prologue,' tell of an early automobile trip into Death Valley (1921) by the author. Pp. 33-73 cover the reliable story of Death Valley -- its ghost towns, geological features, borax, zoology, botany, springs, Scotty's Castle, Ubehebe Crater, canyons, roads, mountains, lost mines and missing men."

Fine in dust jacket.