M A G A Z •: - Desert Magazine of the Southwest

MARGARET and LEROY BALES traveled
over many miles of rough desert trails to gather
the material for their story of the old ghost
town of Ballarat for readers of the Desert Magazine
this month.
The Bales reside in Los Angeles, where Le-
Roy is a deputy sheriff and Margaret a former
newspaper feature writer who is now proving
that an ex-newspaper woman can really be quite
domestic when she tries.
Photography is their hobby, especially desert
places and people—and one of their favorite
indoor sports is boasting about the inaccessible
places they have reached in their desert car.
They are particularly fond of washboard roads.
Companions on their trips are their two dogs,
Mike—mostly Shepherd, and Bodacious—mainly
setter.
CHARLES KELLY, author and traveler
whose stories appear frequently in Desert Magazine,
recently left his home city of Salt Lake
to spend several months in the heart of the
southern Utah wilderness. He has long looked
forward to the opportunity of going into a
region so remote he'll only get his mail every
two or three months—and now his dream is
to come true. He plans to explore areas that
have never been accurately mapped — and
write. He has promised to write some of his
experiences for Desert Magazine readers.
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JOSEPH MUENCH'S unusual outdoor pictures
appear frequently in Desert Magazine,
San Diego's
Leading Hotel
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but he has no corner on the talent in the Muench
family at Santa Barbara, California. As evidence
— the entertaining story Navajo Sing
written for this number of the magazine by
JOYCE MUENCH, the domestic half of the
family.
The Muench Pictorial studio is famous for
its fine photographs of Indian life. Photography
and writing are both the vocation and the
avocation of Joyce and Joseph. They spend their
vacation periods hunting in the desert region,
and "bring 'em back alive" with their cameras
and typewriter.
Their illustrated features have appeared in
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