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Reminiscences of Walter D. Scott, desert entrepreneur of the American West
- Title
- Reminiscences of Walter D. Scott, desert entrepreneur of the American West / Walter D. Scott ; edited and introduced by Delmer G. Ross.
- Author
- Scott, Walter D., 1918-
- Publication
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ross, Delmer G.
- Description
- xiv, 311 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in American history ; v. 46
- Uniform Title
- Studies in American history (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 46.
- Subjects
- Blythe (Calif.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Palo Verde Valley (Calif.) > History > 20th century
- Palo Verde Valley (Calif.) > Biography
- Blythe (Calif.) > History > 20th century
- Farmers > California > Blythe > Biography
- Blythe (Calif.) > Biography
- Scott, Walter D., 1918-
- Businessmen > California > Blythe > Biography
- Palo Verde Valley (Calif.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Youth -- Early Memories -- School Days -- The Browns -- Tom Wells and Halloween -- The Blythe Intaglios -- Clapp Spring -- Odds and Ends of Growing Up -- Family Matters -- My Family -- Playmates -- Tup -- Going Hunting -- Business Enterprises -- The Sheep Business -- The Cattle Business -- More Cattle Business -- The Hagens and the Goat Business -- Mares' Urine -- Mining Manganese -- Making Charcoal -- Uranium -- Alaskan Gold -- Mining Rock -- Pete Daniels' Mines -- Lost Wealth -- Jojoba Beans -- Other Businesses and Opportunities -- Public Service -- To the Rescue -- Sheriff's Reserve -- The Water Quality Control Board -- Palo Verde College -- Desert Living -- Floods -- Dangerous Company -- Airplane -- Catching Wild Horses -- Perils of the Desert -- The Torpedo and the Hobo -- One of the Good Times.
- ISBN
- 0773469036
- LCCN
- 2002033774
- OCLC
- 50645545
- ocm50645545
- SCSB-4333094
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries