In the 60's and 70's, I occasionally submitted pictures and stories to Desert Magazine, as well as a couple of others (Four Wheeler published "Bare Bones Banty", a dune buggy construction article). Desert published "Cruisin' to Cadiz", (co-authored by Sam Petty) about that time.
In 1977, I wrote the following article for Desert magazine, but got a "reject slip" in return, as it was submitted too late for inclusion in their annual November Death Valley edition. They did accept a couple of my 4X5 Ektachromes, which were printed in November of 1977 and January of 1978. I received $15.00 for a half-page color photo (Shorty's Grave), and $45.00(!) for a full-page (Salt Creek).
Better than the $45 to me was to be in the same issue as a cover by Josef Muench. Desert's cover was often by David Muench, and I think that was one of the main things that attracted me to it. Of course, they had desert travel stories, lost mines, articles on Baja California by Earl Stanley Gardener etc., that were in tune with what I was into at the time. My type-written manuscript of "The Springs of Death Valley" resurfaced recently, and I thought I would publish it on the web, thirty years late.
Desert magazine is long
gone, but sorely missed.
On the coming of the Third millennium
This
is another
article written years ago, that recently showed up. Before
dismissing this subject as seriously moot (the turn of the
century happened years ago by any measure), remember that the
same problem occurs every decade, but is usually ignored.
Perhaps here you will find relief from all that guilt!
Anchovies:A tale of Priorities
We
spent a lot of time in Baja California in the 1960's - To us, it was an
adventure, but to most of the the people that lived there it was a
daily struggle for existence.