Taos Pueblo each included photographs by Ansel Adams. The California Historical Landmark reads: CHL No. 229 Austin Home - Inyo NO. 229 MARY AUSTIN'S HOME - Mary Austin, author of The Land of Little Rain and other volumes that picture the beauty of Owens Valley, lived in Independence. "But if ever you come beyond the borders as far as the town that lies in a hill dimple at the foot of Kearsarge, never leave it until you have knocked at the door of the brown house under the willow-tree at the end of the village street, and there you shall have such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another ..." excerpt from The Land of Little Rain. Selected works The Land of Little Rain (1903), an account of the California Desert. full-text edition (Internet Archive) The Basket Woman (1904), a book of Indian myths and fanciful tales for children. Isidro (book) (1905), a romance of Mission days. The Flock (1906), an account of the shepherd industry of California. Santa Lucia (1908), a novel. Lost Borders, the people of the desert (1909). The Arrow Maker – A Drama in Three Acts (1911). A Woman of Genius (1912). Fire: a drama in three acts (1914) The Ford (1917). The Trail Book (1918). ''The Young Woman Citizen (1918). Outland (1919). No. 26 Jayne Street (1920). The American Rhythm (1923). The Land of Journeys' Ending (1924). Everyman's Genius (1925). Lands of the Sun (1927). Taos Pueblo (1930). Experiences Facing Death (1931). Starry Adventure (1931). Earth Horizon (1932), autobiography. Non-English Writings II: Aboriginal The Cambridge History of American Literature Volume III Chapter XXXII pp. 610–634 (1933) Can Prayer Be Answered? (1934). One-Smoke Stories (1934). One Hundred Miles on Horseback (1887, 1963) (first published essay 1887, re-published posthumously). Cactus Thorn (1927, 1988) (written ca. 1927, the novella was published posthumously). References Further reading Alaimo, Stacy. "The undomesticated nature of feminism: Mary Austin and the progressive women conservationists." Studies In American Fiction 26, no. 1 (Spring 98 1998): 73–96. Baer, Morley, Room and Time Enough, The Land of Mary Austin, Northland Press, Flagstaff, Arizona 1979, Becher, Anne and Richey, Joseph. American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present (2 vol, 2nd ed. 2008) vol 1 online pp. 33–36. Hoffman, Abraham. "Mary Austin, Stafford Austin, and the Owens Valley." Journal of the