Land Of Little Rain (Record no. 80)
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
|---|---|
| Classification number | 917.94 Aus |
| Item number | 15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | 917.94 Aus |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Austin, Mary |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Land Of Little Rain |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Mary Austin; Photgraphs by Ansel Adams; Introduction by Carl Van Doren |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Houghton Mifflin Company |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1950 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Boston |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 133 p |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | "Halftone engravings by the Walter J. Mann Company, San Francsico. Endpaper map by Milton Cavagnaro, San Francisco."--Page [iv]. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction -- Preface to The land of little rain -- 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 -- Photographs by Ansel Adams -- Appendix. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native American poetry. The Land of little rain (1903), Austin's first book, focused on the arid and semi-arid regions of California between the High Sierras south of Yosemite: the Ceriso, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert; and towns such as Jimville, Kearsarge, and Las Uvas. She wrote of the region's climate, plants, and animals and of its people: the Ute, Paiute, Mojave, and Shoshone tribes; European-American gold prospectors and borax miners; and descendants of Hispanic settlers. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | 11753 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Frontier and pioneer life |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Manners and customs |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Pictorial works |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social life and customs |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Description and travel |
| Geographic subdivision | California |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Source of heading or term | California |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Relator code | Ill. |
| Personal name | Adams, Ansel |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Relator code | Intro. |
| Personal name | Van Doren, Carl |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Koha item type | 900 - 999 |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Permanent Location | Current Location | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | 15.00 | 917.94 Aus | 11753 | 2007-07-31 |