At one time, when Antelope Valley real estate developers wanted a piece of the California land boom, they stuck oranges on the Joshua Tree and tried to pass them off as orange trees. This book is more than just a thoroughly-researched history of the Joshua Tree--one of the oldest living plants in the Mojave Desert. It's also reader-friendly and can be enjoyed by young and old alike. It has the distinction of being selected by such prestigious American libraries as the one at the New York Botanical Gardens and Harvard University. It is also among the refererence books at international libraries like the University of Copenhagen at Denmark.
