Journal of the Southwest articles from June 2007

Journal of the Southwest archives from June 2007

A century of science in the Pinacate.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiersup; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists, and even a few...

Hornaday, Lumholtz, and the grandeur of nature.(William Temple Hornaday, Carl Lumholtz)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... TO THOSE WHO LOVE NATURE IN ALL ITS ASPECTS --CARL LUMHOLTZ, dedication, New Trails in Mexico One sunny December day in 1990, I was spending some leisurely time with my wife, Barbara, in downtown Mexico City, browsing old editions in...

Desert on the march.(Pinacate expeditions)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... On the morning of November 2, 1907, a group of adventurers gathered at a small house near the corner of East Second Street and Park Avenue in Tucson, Arizona, to begin a month-long trip to the little-known Pinacate region of northwestern...

The "Lost" 1907 Pinacate diary of Godfrey G. Sykes.(Diary entry)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... Godfrey Sykes did not keep a diary while on the 1907 Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory expedition to the Pinacate. At least that was what his son Glenton maintained throughout his life (interview by Bill Broyles, November 30, 1984). While...

Geologic studies in the Pinacate volcanic field.(Chronology)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... The Pinacate is a special place thanks largely to its geology. At its core lies the Sierra Pinacate, a central massif of old lava flows that is mantled with and surrounded by younger flows and cinder cones. This rugged volcanic terrain made the...

The Sykes Crater Saguaro: Southeast Flank of Sykes Crater, Pinacate, Sonora.(Photograph)
June 22, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 3/6/06 6:49:56 A.M. (XIV) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2/12/06 8:30:02 AM (XII) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In fruit. June 11, 2005 (IX) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Early morning September 25, 2005 (X) ...

Pinacate recon.(Pinacate travel)(Essay)
June 22, 2007... If it weren't for crazy Hal Coss, (1) I would have missed falling in love with the Pinacate. Even today I get goose bumps just thinking about the place. The Pinacate shaped my life. When I came back from Vietnam, where I had been wounded by...

Gumersindo Esquer of Sonoyta: a Mexican Jules Verne in the footsteps of William Hornaday.(Essay)
June 22, 2007... The native village at Sonoyta, Sonora, was first recorded by Europeans when Father Eusebio Kino visited it in 1698. By 1700, he wrote that this "rancheria... is the best there is on this coast. It has fertile land, with irrigation ditches for...