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David K
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LOL Welcome to the "Over-100" club!
Cool to have a signed copy from who many consider the greatest mystery author in the world! You can still watch Perry Mason on some TV channels!
Desert Riverman is a book with Baja in it... I wonder if it is the same as your Riverman Desertman?
https://www.fretwater.com/Fretwater_Press/Desert_Riverman.ht...
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Thanks David..now you are going to make me go read the Book again..if Baja is in that book, it stays in the mix..
Take care.
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Well, the titles are not the same, but close. I cannot make out the print on the photo of your books. Desert Riverman (by Robert S. Wood) is about
Murl Emery who was a pioneer of business along the Colorado River (mining bat guano, running a ferry, and operating a tour business). Erle Stanley
Gardner had Emery along on his early Baja expeditions, primarily mentioned in Gardner's 1960 'Hunting the Desert Whale'.
In Desert Riverman, Emery talks about discovering one of Baja's lost missions, Dolores del Norte, while on the Gardner helicopter expedition to San
Francisco de la Sierra. Choral Pepper was on the same trip and it was she who asked the villagers about the old stone walls up there... and they
replied "Dolores".
[While the locals in the 1960s may have believed those walls were from the mission of Dolores del Norte, that was just a myth or error innocently
handed down the generations of Arce's and Villavicencio's. Dolores del Norte was a proposed mission name for a future mission north of San Ignacio
shown on letters and maps (1745-1757). When funding for the mission was obtained, the name was changed to Santa Gertrudis, to honor the wife of the
benefactor. San Francisco was indeed a mission farm/ranch, attached to San Ignacio, but never a mission itself. It has insufficient water sources for
agriculture, for one thing... but is located only a couple miles off one of the Camino Real routes north. San Pablo, an adobe visita church ruin in
the canyon below San Francisco has also been called 'Dolores del Norte' by mission authors and INAH, in error.]
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David K
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Keep voting Nomads who haven't!
I will add photos of more books if I have them here.
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While in elementary school in the early sixties our teacher would read us books like "The Island of the Blue Dolphins". One book that she read us,
which author or name I cannot remember for the life of me had to do I believe with Baja. It was about a little boy who was walking up the Baja coast
by himself living off the land. It mentioned various estuaries and lagoons where he would get clams and fish. I think that he was trying to make it up
north to some relative. I also think that some years later someone made it into a television movie of some sort. Sound familiar to anyone?
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You got me thinking hard! I also had a teacher in the 60s that read The Island of the Blue Dolphins but I can't recall (not yet anyway) the other
story... and I think I would if I had heard it?
I went to 3rd-5th grade at Rancho Santa Fe Elementary and there was a lot of local history told of the mission period and the California ranch period.
Rancho Santa Fe was the Spanish turned Mexican 'Rancho San Dieguito' owned by a soldier who accompanied Father Serra and was at the presidio of San
Diego, Juan Osuna.
The land was eventually used by the Santa Fe Railroad to grow eucalyptus trees for railroad ties. A dam (Lake Hodges) and aqueduct were built for tree
irrigation. They grew fast but the wood was not able to support train tracks or spikes. The project was not a total failure when Col. Ed Fletcher came
in with a plan to create a community of upscale homes among the forest of Australian trees. The ranch was renamed after the railroad company.
Anyway... let's keep thinking of the story of the boy walking along the coast of Baja... It hasn't 'Graham', was it??? 
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One book to add to the list..."With Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez: A Memoir of the Steinbeck/Ricketts Expedition", by Sparky Enea, a crew member on
the Western Flyer. Some great personal observations and stories from the adventure
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Thanks bajaguy... I only have the one Steinback book, shown in the photos above (The Log from The Sea of Cortez), otherwise, I could show the book you
mention.
Nomads: Continue voting in the poll: What Baja book author has inspired you to travel (more) in Baja?
[Edited on 7-14-2018 by David K]
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Coming Home from Devil Mountain describes some of the canyons, pools approaching Picacho del Diablo from the San Felipe side. A tale of survival and
rescue – Bud Bernhard the hero ( and a sub-story about the woman’s conflicting relationship with her father). Peak bagging has never been
something I was interested in, but hiking in 2-3 miles to some of the first pools is something I’d like to do after reading this book.
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Ok, I voted for Baja Catch, but John Steinbeck's "Log From the Sea of Cortez" would have inspired me by itself. I read that after I started fishing
in Baja. I highly recommend it to those who have not read it yet.
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Quote: Originally posted by wilderone  | Coming Home from Devil Mountain describes some of the canyons, pools approaching Picacho del Diablo from the San Felipe side. A tale of survival and
rescue – Bud Bernhard the hero ( and a sub-story about the woman’s conflicting relationship with her father). Peak bagging has never been
something I was interested in, but hiking in 2-3 miles to some of the first pools is something I’d like to do after reading this book.
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Thanks for sharing that... one I hadn't heard of before. I knew of the incident as I think it was the year my folks and I did the Ensenada-San Felipe
road. I think it was 1967(?) and they mentioned seeing a helicopter and hiking teams.
In Froylan Tiscareño's book, 'Baja California Adventures', he devotes a chapter to the search.
Here is the Amazon listing for the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0943173205/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
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Coming Home from Devil Mountain is one of the few non-cook books my wife has read. She loved it and I thought it was a very good read too.
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| Quote: Originally posted by bajaguy | One book to add to the list..."With Steinbeck in the Sea of Cortez: A Memoir of the Steinbeck/Ricketts Expedition", by Sparky Enea, a crew member on
the Western Flyer. Some great personal observations and stories from the adventure
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I have Sparky's book as well, fun read with a totally different viewpoint on that voyage. The irony is that I knew Sparky a little as a bartender in
Monterey in the 60's but had no clue back then about his being on the Western Flyer.
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David K
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Vote for the author who inspired you to explore Baja or explore it more, if you already were a Baja traveler before the book.
As of this morning:
1) Gene Kira
2) Erle Stanley Gardner, Ray Cannon, David Brackney (AAA), are tied.
3) Tom Miller
Edit: As of this afternoon:
1) Gene Kira
2) Erle Stanley Gardner, Ray Cannon, David Brackney (AAA), and Graham Mackintosh (tied).
3) Tom Miller, Greg Niemann, and Walt Peterson (tied).
If the author that inspired you is not on the ballot, please post a reply with who (or the book title).
[Edited on 7-15-2018 by David K]
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It wasn't any books!
My love of Mexico started the same way yours did! In 1957 (I was 10 yrs) my parents pulled all of us out of school and we did a three month road trip
to Manzanillo on the mainland.
I made several more trips there over the years, but never experienced Baja until 1986 when I took my family on a three and a half month tour.
We spent a month on Baja, then ferried over to Mazatlan and headed south. I never really spent much time reading about it, other than travel articles
I came across over the years.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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"The People's Guide to Mexico" didn't mention any places, it just gave a great feeling for adventure south of the border.
After driving down almost every back road to the Baja coast in my 1978 Toyota pickup, discovering a plethora of "secret" camping and fishing spots, I
read "Baja Catch" and found it mentions 90% of them.
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First trip with parents in 60’s inspired me. Reading all these books just stoked the fire more...
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First trip with parents in 60’s inspired me. Reading all these books just stoked the fire more...
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First trip with parents in 60’s inspired me. Reading all these books just stoked the fire more...
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