CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I. The Feel of the Outdoors[9]
II. How We Found Mojave[20]
III. The White Heart[51]
IV. The Outfit[71]
V. Entering Death Valley[87]
VI. The Strangest Farm in the World[112]
VII. The Burning Sands[128]
VIII. The Dry Camp[141]
IX. The Mountain Spring[155]
X. The High White Peaks[180]
XI. Snowstorm and Sandstorm[195]
XII. The End of the Adventure[219]
Appendix[225]

ILLUSTRATIONS

A Desert Road[Frontispiece]
Facing Page
Some Half-wild Burros Around Silver Lake[54]
Beatty, at the Base of a Big Red Mountain[80]
The Outfit[90]
The Camp Behind the Barn[102]
The Alkali Bottom of Death Valley[130]
The Desert[150]
A Pack-Train Crossing a Dry Lake[166]