The White Heart of Mojave: An Adventure with the Outdoors of the Desert. Edna Brush Perkins

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Feel of the Outdoors	9
II.	How We Found Mojave	20
III.	The White Heart	51
IV.	The Outfit	71
V.	Entering Death Valley	87
VI.	The Strangest Farm in the World	112
VII.	The Burning Sands	128
VIII.	The Dry Camp	141
IX.	The Mountain Spring	155
X.	The High White Peaks	180
XI.	Snowstorm and Sandstorm	195
XII.	The End of the Adventure	219
	Appendix	225

ILLUSTRATIONS

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A Desert Road	Frontispiece
	Facing Page
Some Half-wild Burros Around Silver Lake	54
Beatty, at the Base of a Big Red Mountain	80
The Outfit	90
The Camp Behind the Barn	102
The Alkali Bottom of Death Valley	130
The Desert	150
A Pack-Train Crossing a Dry Lake	166

I The Feel of the Outdoors

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Beyond the walls and solid roofs of houses is the outdoors. It is always on the doorstep. The sky, serene, or piled with white, slow-moving clouds, or full of wind and purple storm, is always overhead. But walls have an engrossing quality. If there are many of them they assert themselves and

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