The way up from mojave to Red Butte is all desertness, affording no pasture and scarcely a rill of water.
"The Land Of Little Rain"
Mary Hunter Austin
Then he worked back down one or another of the nearly parallel ranges that lie out desertward, and so down to the sink of the mojave River, burrowing to oblivion in the sand,-a big mysterious land, a lonely, inhospitable land, beautiful, terrible.
"The Land Of Little Rain"
Mary Hunter Austin
Why, the Indians of the mojave desert in California can even tell a circumstantial story about a buried city of mojave.
"The Border Boys Across the Frontier"
Fremont B. Deering