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Mary Austin was an American writer and one of the early nature writers of the American Southwest. Her book, The Land of Little Rain, written in 1903, describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. As this area of the country is not far from where we live in Vegas, I decided I would like to go and see these areas and visit her home in Independence, CA.

Riddle me this: why can I read a Kindle in the car without getting sick but not an actual book? 🤔

Went to Joshua Tree for a couple of days, and in keeping with recent habit, picked up local literature as a “souvenir.”

One page in and one of those causally racist moments from a book from 1903 where I can't tell if the author is trying to be respectful and failing or what.