Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Distressed by the fact that the disappearance of hardy grass from the U. S. great plains was releasing numberless tons of soil on the wind and making vast reaches of new desert, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME...
...Into Death Valley from Red Mountain, Calif. chugged the automobile of Prospector John Backert, bound with his family of three for the Backert claim at Leach Springs, 60 miles away. Suddenly, one of the desert's rare cloudbursts swept down upon them, made a river of the road, forced the car to turn up a hillside, where it broke an axle. Well aware of their danger, Prospector Backert and Daughter Ernestine, 22, left Mrs. Backert, 51, and Daughter Agnes, 12, in the car, started to hike the 40 miles back to town, got there 48 hours later. Organizing...
...Carl Raswan, a German horse-breeder who spent much of his life in the East, visited the Ruala Bedouins, who were then camped near the edge of the great Nufud desert, some 120 miles east of Damascus. Raswan had been drawn there by his admiration for magnificent Arabian horses, wanted to learn their history and the secrets of their breeding, found his task greatly simplified when the 8-year-old son of his host accidentally hit him between the eyes with a stone from his slingshot. Worried because he had drawn the blood of his father's guest, little...
With Faris, Carl Raswan rode over the billowing dunes of the Nufud, whose red sands, "saturated with sunshine," looked as if they had been covered with crimson silk. They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all. Carl Raswan studied desert customs, developed an affection for the noble, helpless, panicky, good-natured camel, learned to eat locust, which he liked roasted but not boiled...
DEATH IN THE DESERT-Paul I. Wellman-Macmillan ($3). An excellent account of the last Indian wars of the U. S. Southwest and Oregon, including detailed descriptions of Indian maneuvers which throw light on the generalship of savage chieftains pitted against overwhelming odds...