Desert
Gem Trails by Mary Frances Strong This book
is perhaps the most invaluable guide to rockhounding sites in southern California
and Arizona, the Mohave and Colorado deserts. Her
maps and illustrations are extremely accurate -- an absolute necessity when venturing
out into the California deserts. Her love of the
beauty, solace, and wonder to be found in the desert comes through, particularly
in the introduction to the book. This book gives extremely
accurate distances -- almost always to the tenth of a mile and well within the
margin of error for different sized cars -- and helps the collector find the location. Desert
Gem Trails is a must for anyone wishing to explore the many wonderful collecting
sites of our desert. 1971,
Paperback, 80 pages. zzzzz$5.00

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