Burro Bill and Me: Ramblings in the Arizona Desert [Paperback]

Edna Calkins Price (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2004

Burro Bill and Me is a personal memoir of the author who gave up a life as a nurse to a millionaire, to travel Death Valley, Nevada and the Arizona Strip behind a burro. The characters she meets come to life in this book, from the old prospectors, Mormon farmers, thieves,and people who would give their last bite of food to a couple of complete strangers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: The Narrative Press (August 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158976207X
• ISBN-13: 978-1589762077
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,056,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Used books, June 11, 2011

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Gary P. Beckwith (McGill, Nevada United States) - See all my reviews
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AS usual my last used book purchased through Amazon came as a new book with the purchase price less than postage.

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic slice of life, April 25, 2009

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This review is from: Burro Bill and Me: Ramblings in the Arizona Desert (Paperback)

So wonderful to read such this story: the humor and hardship provide a slice of life into the early 20th century, where two people in their mid 30s decided to explore one of the last frontiers in the American west.

Don't pay any attention to reviews about survival; it's not as much about survival as adventure; it is a book about being on the road, albeit a dusty one with burros. Just my kind of book, I like the narration style. An entertaining read, start to finish; for entertaining Death Valley stories, it's neck-in-neck with Emmett Harder's "These Canyons Are Filled With Ghosts".

3.0 out of 5 stars Desert Living, January 12, 2009

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Clark Gardner, Jr. (Morganton, NC) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book in hopes of learning more about survival under the extremes of Death Valley. What I got was a collection of remembrances about the unusual characters that choose to live in the desert, and a very little about what was required in every day survival. It was entertaining and interesting. And it was remarkable that people would choose to live in such hostile conditions, but it wasn't really what I wanted. Decide what you want before you purchase.

Clark in NC