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Desert Magazine 1956 June By HELEN K. BURBANK San Bernardino, California Your home is just a desert shack Far beyond the dripping fog But your friends all think you envy Them their villas in the smog. They shake their heads in wonder And they cannot understand What it is that keeps you happy In the land of endless sand. So just ask them for a visit Get them up at break of day And then wait for their reactions To the desert's reveille. Will their criticisms vanish? Well, at least they'll be less vocal And perhaps some day they will admil You're not just a stupid yokel. They've been touched by desert magic And some day they'll understand That the desert has a meaning Far beyond the shifting sand. THE WHIRLWIND By MERLE A. BROWN Piedmont, California Such a lonesome little whirlwind On the desert's vast expanse. Pirouetting prettily In her lovely lissome dance. DESERT NIGHT SONG OF THE SPURS By ELIZABETH LEE SARGENT By NINA O. LANSING Ontario, California St. David, Arizona DESERT LOVE By EVA L. BROWNE Far removed from throbbing highways. A ranch woman knows Las Vegas, Nevada From the mad roar of rushing cars. The song of the spurs The desert offers solitude, Buckled to booted feet; I found my love in a lovely place And quiet peace beneath the stars. The jingly, jangly, breadwinning spurs A meadow the flowers had left; With music in their beat. The trees and rivers had passed it by. No man-made traps for weary feel, Deserted—forlorn—bereft. Nor lurid scenes for tired eyes, She hears them when Only the silent solitude, They accompany There the wind came down from the Walapi, And peace beneath the tranquil sides. A bawling calf at hand, A sword in each hand he came, • • • Bewailing the searing branding iron But he glanced away from love's glowing Burning the owner's hrand. cheek, TRYST And melted his icy flame. By IDA F. COMBESI She hears them, too. Denver, Colorado They sing, they say The dagger plant tipped his weapons with I know cool nights on desert land As horse and rider take off, light, With emerald stars and rising moon; "Pound the leather and uncoil the twine, The cactus his barb had forsworn, A bro.id expanse of sun-bleached sand Pile on the loop—and he's caught!" Mesquite and Joshua, spine bedight Where flowers pale in early June. For love, they had hidden their thorn. But the brashest tune The burnish lustred sand I saw Is the tune they play Men called it a desert whose charms were And Joshua trees now bent with age: With raking rowels that ring, few, I drank the brimming cup of awe "Ride that bronc if you're able, Desolate, barren of grace; High—wide an' han'some—Zing, Zing!" Men called it a desert, but oh. I knew And caught the myrrh-sweet breath of sage. Love dwelt in a lovely place! A silent land on any night. Oh jingly, jangly • • • Wearing a robe of soft blue mist Rollickin' spurs, Ranch woman would have you retreat; SILENT GUARDS With gleaming stars like candle light; By FERN GREENWALD DAVIS Within my heart I hold a tryst. The day is so long when you're bucked too long Long Beach, California • • • To her cow-man's booted feet. As shades of blue and purple Bathe distant rugged peaks. DESERT FUN Twilight falls in silence— By MARIE NYEHOLT Only nature speaks. Pico, California It's fun to explore in the desert; As sleep on wings of blackness To prowl through the soft golden sand. Smothers the sunset's glow, It's fun to examine the flowers By TANYA SOUTH Those hills—like knights in armor— That rear their bright heads from the land Unstable is our lot—unsure. Stand guarding the desert below. From day to day some new allure • • • It's exciting to hunt for the driftwood Haunts us. And our endeavors fritter. BRIGHT SENTINEL And minerals and gemstones that hide Change brings so many things to litter In the cascading shade of the canyons. The Pathway to the free and wide. By NELL GRIFFITH WILSON Or that lurk in the shifting sand tide. We lack a concentrated stride. Kenwood, California We lack a fullness in our soul. So rich its flame against the desert sky, It's a glory to drink at the chalice All dedicated to some goal— So clothed in glory like a throne on high. Of the life giving amber gold sun. Some purpose, to unswerving press. It is as if And to feel the swift wing Therein lies Greatness—and Success. A thousand sunsets Of the air as it sings Forever stamped their beauty It's a wonderful place to have fun! On the cliff. DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT CRLEIlDflR May 30-June 17—Southwest Archi- tecture Exhibition, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. June 1—Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, opens evening sessions for public on alternate Fridays. Ad- mission by tickets obtainable free of charge at Chamber of Commerce or at Observatory Library. June 1-3—Kids' Rodeo, Otero County Fairgrounds, Alamogordo, N. M. June 1-15—Second Annual Art Show, sponsored by Rodeo de Santa Fe, Volume 19 JUNE, 1956 Number 6 Museum of New Mexico Art Gal- lery, Santa Fe. June 2—Park Lake Day and Fishing COVER Lurt Knee, Guide and Uranium Prospector. (See Derby, Santa Rosa, New Mexico. June 2-3—Morongo Valley, Califor- story page 15.) By JOSEF MUENCH nia, Annual Spanish Fiesta at the POETRY Prescription and other poems 2 Morongo Lodge. CALENDAR June 3—Corpus Christi Sunday, Out- June events on the desert 3 door Religious Processions from HISTORY Charcoal—The West's Forgotten Industry St. Francis Cathedral and Cristo Rey Church, Santa Fe, New Mex- By NELL MURBARGER 4 ico; and Ouadalupe Church and DESERT QUIZ A test of your desert knowledge 8 Old Mission, Taos and Ranchos de CONTROVERSY Taos. Long-Eared Problem Child of the Desert June 7-9—Murray, Utah, Rodeo. By RUSS LEADABRAND 10 WATER June 9-10—Carson Valley Days, Min- Seventeen Palms, by WALTER FORD .... 13 den, Nevada. FIELD TRIP June 10—Tour to Grave of Eugene Petrified Forests in Utah's Circle Cliffs Manlove Rhodes, Alamogordo, New By RANDALL HENDERSON 15 Mexico. EXPERIENCE June 10—Procession of La Conquis- One-Eyed Snake of Betatakin tadora from St. Francis Cathedral By LOLITA ALICE OLAINE 19 FORECAST to Rosario Chapel, Santa Fe, New Southwest river runoff predictions 20 Mexico. NATURE June 10-17—New Mexico Girls' State, Poisonous Desert Plants Albuquerque. By EDMUND C. JAEGER 21 June 11-16 — Nevada Boys' State, CLOSE-UPS Reno. GARDENING About those who write for Desert 22 June 12—St. Anthony's Procession Summer Garden Zinnias, Marigolds after Vespers, La Loma, Taos, New Mexico. PRE-HISTORY By RUTH REYNOLDS 23 June 13—San Antonio Corn Dance, DESERT LIVING Inscription House, by JOHN L. BLACKFORD . 25 Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Cor- doba and various other northern We Use the Sun to Heat Our Water New Mexico rural communities LETTERS By JENNELLA ROBERTSON 26 will celebrate Feast of San Antonio de Padua. Fiesta at Sandia; Dance CONTEST Comment from Desert's readers 28 at San lldefonso. FICTION Picture-of-the-Month Contest announcement . 28 June 15—Junior Rodeo, Globe, Ariz. June 15-17—9th Annual New Mexico NEWS Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 29 State Championship High School MINING From here and there on the desert 30 Rodeo, Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Current news of desert mines 35 June 16—Desert Catalpa Club Hos- URANIUM pitality Day, Lenwood, Barstow, HOBBY Progress of the mining boom 36 California. LAPIDARY Gems and Minerals 39 June 16-17—Navajo Roundup, Win- dow Rock, Arizona. COMMENT Amateur Gem Cutter, by DR. H. C. DAKE . 45 June 16-17—Kearny Entrada, Raton, BOOKS Just Between You and Me, by the Editor ... 46 New Mexico. June 18-22 — Nevada Girls' State, PHOTOGRAPHY Reviews of Southwestern Literature .... 47 Reno. Pictures of the Month Back cover June 20-23—Annual Strawberry Days, Pleasant Grove, Utah. The Desert Magazine is published monthly by the Desert Press, Inc., Palm Desert, June 23-24—Lions Club All Indian California. Re-entered as second class matter July 17, 1948, at the postoffice at Palm Desert, Rodeo, Gallup, New Mexico. California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S. Patent Office, June 24—Annual Fiesta and Cere- and contents copyrighted 1956 by the Desert Press, Inc. Permission to reproduce contents monial Dances, San Juan Pueblo, must be secured from the editor in writing. New Mexico. Corn Dances at Taos RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor EUGENE L. CONROTTO, Associate Editor and Acoma Pueblos. BESS STACY, Business Manager EVONNE RIDDELL, Circulation Manager June 25-July 6 — Southwest Writers' Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs submitted cannot be returned or acknowledged Workshop, Arizona State College, unless full return postage is enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes no responsibility for Flagstaff. Phyllis and Weldon damage or loss of manuscripts or photographs although due care will be exercised. Sub- Heald, directors. scribers should send notice of change of address by the first of the month preceding issue. June 27-30—Rodeo, Miniature Par- SUBSCRIPTION RAXES ade and Stock Parade, Lehi, Utah. One Year $4.00 Two Years $7.00 June 29-30—Vernal, Utah, Amateur Canadian Subscriptions 25c Extra, Foreign 50c Extra Rodeo. Subscriptions to Army Personnel Outside U. S. A. Must Be Mailed in Conformity With June 29-July 1—Rodeo, Elko, Nev. P. 0. D. Order No. 19687 Address Correspondence to Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California JUNE, 1956 Charcoal kilns near the ghost town of Frisco, Utah.
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