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The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain | Mary Hunter Austin
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Book Excerpt: ...Contents: The land of little rain -- Water trails of the Carrizo -- 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...
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Sara_Planz
The Land of Little Rain | Mary Austin
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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.

LeahBergen It‘s so pretty! I love visiting the homes of authors. 8mo
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The_Real_Nani
The_Real_Nani
The Land of Little Rain | Mary Austin
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Riddle me this: why can I read a Kindle in the car without getting sick but not an actual book? 🤔

Tamra Hmmm, that is puzzling..... 5y
The_Real_Nani ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 5y
marleed Fascinating. 5y
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The_Real_Nani
The_Real_Nani
The Land of Little Rain | Mary Austin
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Went to Joshua Tree for a couple of days, and in keeping with recent habit, picked up local literature as a “souvenir.”

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M_landis27
M_landis27
The Land of Little Rain | Mary Austin
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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.

BookishFeminist Yikes 😬 8y
M_landis27 I think, having read the scholarly intro to the book and about her in general, she was trying to change the Manifest Destiny narrative with respect to First Nations peoples. But like 1903 trying so still more racist than not. 8y
The_Real_Nani I read this as she would use the name given by the indigenous people rather than the name given by the white people, wherever possible, which I think is quite progressive for that time period. I didn‘t read this as racist at all. 5y
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