Desert Oracle Spring 2016
DESERT ORACLE: Spring 2016 (44 pages):
- “The Elusive Gila Monster of California,” by R. Castle Thomson.
- “A Saguaro Called ‘Big Fella,'” by Doc Daniels.
- “The Royal Palace of Wonder Valley,” by Laura Sibley.
- “From Hozhoni To Roswell: An Alien Road Trip With Robert Zappanti, the Magic Painter,” by Bobby Carlson.
- “Shamans of the Desert,” by Nicholas Clapp.
- PLUS: Gambel’s quail, Twin Peaks in the Mojave, a “UFO” retrieved in Northern Arizona, and other miscellaneous & curious items from “Around and Across These Desert Lands”
DESERT ORACLE: Winter 2015 (44 pages):
- “The Known Unknown: Tales of Desert Sasquatch.”
- “Why Mountains Matter,” by Doc Daniels
- “Night of the Manson Man,” by Ruth Nolan
- “The Governor’s Alien: Mass Panic and the Phoenix Lights”
- “Intimate Silence of the Desert,” by the Rev. Jim Burklo
- “Free Calls To God (and Wells Fargo)”
- PLUS: Great horned owls, UFO hotspots, the Integratron, Winslow, the Cima Store, and other miscellaneous & curious items from “Around and Across These Desert Lands”
44 pages of strange desert reading.
DESERT ORACLE: Autumn 2015 (44 pages):
- “William S. Burroughs At the A-Bomb Boarding School.”
- “Living With Scorpions,” by Doc Daniels
- “Ancient Clones of the Mojave,” by Chris Clarke
- “Minerva Hamilton Hoyt: Apostle of the Cacti”
- “Letter From Marfa: Fire & Ruins,” by Rachel Monroe
- “Marty Robbins and His Long Desert Trail From Phoenix To El Paso”
- PLUS: Desert centipedes, flash floods, train travel to New Mexico a century ago, ravens and other desert critters by artist Karine Swenson, and miscellaneous & curious items from “Around and Across These Desert Lands”
DESERT ORACLE: Summer 2015 (44 pages):
- “Edward Abbey’s Southwest: A Field Guide”
- “Desert Madness With the Late, Great Mojave Phone Booth,” by Doc Daniels
- “Finding Your Desert Refuge At the County Tax Auction,” by John R. Connolly
- “A New Performer Takes the Stage At Death Valley Junction”
- “Burrowing Owls and Vanishing Fences,” by Jay Babcock
- “When Astronauts Roamed the Western Deserts”
- PLUS: Desert retreats and acreage, miner’s cats, Teresa Sitz on desert rats, a new iconic caricature of Ed Abbey by Mike Caplanis, Elko’s Cowboy Poetry Gathering, aliens at the Little A’Le’Inn, and other miscellaneous & curious items from “Around and Across These Desert Lands”
Our First Issue!
DESERT ORACLE: Spring 2015 (44 pages):
- “When Tatooine Was Death Valley”
- “Dr. Jaeger’s Hibernating Bird”
- “Picacho: The Arizona Town That Vanished,” by Doc Daniels
- “Art Bell and the Lost Kingdom of Nye”
- “Homesteading In Joshua Tree,” by Jay Babcock
- “Desert Trailers and Hippie Hot Springs In Nevada of the 1970s,” by Ben Sullivan
- PLUS: Desert retreats and acreage, horned lizards, Mary Austin, art by Drew Reese, desert survival, a Sasquatch warning in the Eastern Sierra, Zane Grey, and miscellaneous curious items from “Around and Across These Desert Lands”
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