BYWAYS PLUS: DATES! - Desert Magazine of the Southwest

Volume 43, Number 2 The voice of the Lord thunders through the lightning.
It resounds through the deserts.
—Psalms 29:7,8
Editorial Staff
Donald MacDonald, Editor
Gary E. Squier, Associate Editor/Design Director
Mary Eileen Twyman, Managing Editor
Pat J. Williams, Assistant Managing Editor
Jennifer Osborn, Assistant Managing Editor
Phillip E. Squier, Assistant Art Director
Contributing Editors
Karen Sausman, Natura/Sciences
Wayne P. Armstrong, Natural Sciences
Thomas K. Evans, Government Affairs
Russ Leadabrand, Field Trips
Jerry and Luisa Klink, Baja California
M.R. Zarubica, Librarian
George Aberlich, Illustrator
Business Staff
Donald MacDonald, Publisher
Gary E. Squier, Co-Publisher and
Advertising Director
George E. Sector, Marketing Director
MarjorieMoline, Business Manager
Chester M. Ross, Counsel
The Cover:
This month we look at the
amazing contrasts of Arizona,
and David Muench captures the
color and the contrasts of that
great state in his cover photo of
Canyon de Chelly at daybreak.
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4 Desert TODAY, A Progress Report
6 DATELINE: INDIO, CALIF.
Lee Kirk
8 SELDOM SEEN SLIM, The Man
Howell Rommel
12 SELDOM SEEN SLIM, The Character
Arnold Roth
13 PATAGONIA, The Town That Time Forgot
Donald MacDonald
17 BEWARE THE DEVIL'S WIND
C. William Harrison
18 DANCER! HIGH EXPLOSIVES
B. J. Cos/ey
20 ARCOSANTI, The Shape of Things to Come
Gary Squier
27 THE CACTUS CITY CLARION
Edited by Mary E. Twyman
28 DESERT ROCKHOUND
A New Column by Rick Mitchell
30 FAIRVIEW, A Little-Known Nevada Ghost Town
32 DESERT CALENDAR
35 OUR READERS WRITE
36 MISSION SAN XAVIER DEL BAC
Kaye Ann Christie
40 THEWINGEDTIGER
Karen Sausman
48 WHAT'S COOKING ON THE DESERT?
Stella Hughes
March, 1980
50 BUYER'S GUIDE TO METAL DETECTORS, PART II
Compiled by Ernie Cowan
53 RAILROAD IN THE SKY
Buddy Noonan
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