LAND WHERE TIME STANDS STILL By MAX MILLER Illustrated with
photographs by GEORGE LINDSAY and THE AUTHOR DODD, MEAD COMPANY NEW
YORK 1943 COPYRIGHT, 1943 BY MAX MILLER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NO PART
OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT PERMISSION IN
WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER PRINTER IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
BY THE VAIL-BALLOT PRKSS, INC., BINCXIAMTOK N. V COLLECTING
PITAHAYA FRUIT FOREWORD THIS book is the record o a trip overland
In the fall of 1941 from San Diego to Cape San Lucas at the tip of
Lower Cali fornia. It Is neither an adventure story nor a
systematic study of the little-known Mexican province. It is simply
a record of what I saw there, and such economic and socio logical
statistics as it contains arise incidentally from the story itself.
Lower California is the Mexican land which hangs like an elephants
trunk below our own California. In this book when I speak of Lower
California I am, of course, referring to the Mexican province.
Southern California denotes the area roughly a hundred miles north
and south of Los An geles, and east to the Arizona line. And when I
use the word California alone, I am speaking of the entire state of
Cali fornia, U. S. A. This is confusing, even to Westerners, and it
needs clearing up at the outset. GREETINGS MY DEAR MAX With
reference to the anti-American feeling which was so prominent and
noticeable during your visit to Lower California, the following
data may be of interest to you At the time of your visit such
feeling was especially pro nounced, owing to the activities of
numerous German agents who had been sent into the country to
organize local resident Germans. They combined to turn loose a
continu ous series ofpublications, talks, and general barroom
gossip to promote an ill-feeling against the Americans, and you
happened to be in the muzzle of the gun at the time of your trip.
Pearl Harbor solidified the Mexican idea against various Axis
powers just as much as it did that of the United States. The
Mexican government very promptly slapped in jail all the German
residents and nonresidents and all Japanese of the same character
they could get their hands on and they were all safely under lock
and key before even the United States had made any such movement.
Left to themselves, the Mexican people responded in the proper
fashion and are just as an ti-Axis as we ourselves are and are
carrying on their activities with wholehearted co operation, both
on the part of government officials, Army, Navy and Air Force. In
fact, their enthusiasm is admirable and they cannot understand why
we dont immediately invade Japan and settle our score with that
racial group. They are very anxious to go along on the trip and do
their bit at finishing them off. You would be quite astonished at
the enthusiastic attitude of that region at present in comparison
to what you noted at the time of your visit. With very best
regards, James Harding Baja California, 1943 ILLUSTRATIONS
Collecting Pitahaya Fruit Frontispiece PAGE Mission San Borjas 20
Grand Old Man of San Borjas 28 Orchestra at San Borjas Mission
........ 28 Onyx Quarry at El Marmol 52 Jail at El Arco Shark Camp,
Gulf of California 76 Creeping Devil Cactus 84 Valley of Comondu
108 Drying Dates at Comondu 1x6 The Naturalists at Work 116 Town of
Magclalena on Magdalena Island 132 Bringing Water to La Paz 148
Reading from Top to Bottom, Max Miller and Friend . 148Some of the
Abandoned Pearl-Fishing Equipment at La Paz 1 64 Oxen Plowing at
San Jose del Cabo 180 Turtle Fishermen at San Francisco Bay on the
Gulf of Cali fornia 196 Bells of Loreto Mission, Oldest of the
California Mission Chain, - Part of the National Highway Max Miller
and the Young Mathematical Genius . ., 228 Cabo San Lucas, the Very
Tip of the Peninsula . . . .234 LAND WHERE TIME STANDS STILL
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