The Land of Little Rain

Mary Austin was an early ecologist, feminist, and desert dweller. The Land of Little Rain is a book about earth, sky, weather, and some of the plants and animals that survive and reproduce among those elemental and elementary events, She describes a few of the people who once lived in what was something close to an original state of nature. The Table on Contents includes The land of little rain. — Water trails of the Ceriso. — The scavengers. — The pocket hunter. - Shoshone land. — Jimville, a Bret Harte town. — My neighbor's field. — The mesa trail. — The basket maker. — The streets of the mountains. — Water borders. — Other water borders. — Nurslings of the sky. — The little town of the grape vines.