The Land of Little Rain
Land of Little Rain, The,14 sketches by Mary Austin, published in 1903. Based on long personal observation, this familiar account of the land, the people, and the animals and plants is concerned with the California region “between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south …beyond Death Valley and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert.”
The Pocket Hunter, Shoshone Land, and The Basket Maker are quiet portraits of representative citizens in this region of high mountains and vast deserts: a gold miner who spends his life in an infrequently successful search for stray “pockets” of precious metal; an ancient Shoshone medicine man, homesick in exile among the Paiute; and a widowed Paiute woman who devotes herself to rearing her son and to weaving beautiful willow baskets “for the satisfaction of desire.” The Scavengers is a study of the carrion creatures of the desert—vultures, buzzards, ravens,...
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