Death Valley Reading List - Suggested Books

California Desert Trails

Joseph Smeaton Chase
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1919

Death Valley & the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion

Richard E. Lingenfelter
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1986

Death Valley

The 1938 WPA Guide Updated for Today’s Traveler
Cheri Rae, ed.
Olympus Press, Santa Barbara, 1991

The Desert is No Lady

Vera Norwood and Janice Monk, eds.
Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987

Desert Passages: Encounters with the American Deserts

Patricia Nelson Limerick
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1985

The Desert Reader

Peter Wild, ed.
University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1991

Land of Little Rain

Mary Austin
New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1903

The Mysterious Lands

Ann Haymond Zwinger
Truman Talley Books/Plume, New York, 1989