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Desert Magazine was a monthly regional publication based in the Colorado Desert published between 1937–1985. A print version bearing the same name has been revived in the Coachella Valley town of Palm Desert near Palm Springs, California.
Contents
Editors
Desert Magazine was founded, edited and published from 1937 to 1958 by Randall Henderson (1888–1970). New editors followed until the magazine closed print publication in 1985. It was revived as an on-line magazine in 2006.
Publication
The magazine focused on the desert country of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico, and covered a broad range of desert subjects including: regional travel and exploration; the visual arts of painting, drawing, and photography; prose and literature; cultural history; prospecting and mining; natural history including geology, wildlife, and flora; river running, and lifestyle–human interest stories.
Online magazine – revival
Desert Magazine was revived as an archival online magazine, the Desert Magazine e-zine journal, in 2006. It contains all the entries and illustrations that were published in print from 1937 to 1985. A newsblog is also produced about the magazine called the Desert Magazine Weblog.
Others
Desert Magazine is also the name of a monthly desert lifestyles magazine sent to subscribers to the Palm Springs daily newspaper The Desert Sun.