Desert Magazine

Desert Magazine was a monthly regional publication based in the Colorado Desert published between 1937 and 1985.^[1] A print version bearing the same name has been revived in the Coachella Valley town of Palm Desert near Palm Springs, California.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[3]

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.^[4][5] A newsblog is also produced about the magazine called the Desert Magazine Weblog.^[3]

Desert Magazine is also the name of a monthly desert lifestyles magazine sent to subscribers to the Palm Springs daily newspaper The Desert Sun.^[6]

• Calico Print
• Desert Rat Scrap Book
• Desert Star Weekly – a weekly Coachella Valley newspaper published in Desert Hot Springs
• Jimmy Swinnerton – featured artist in magazine

• Ambrose, Marion (1979). Nevada articles in Desert magazine. Nevada Historical Society. ISBN 9780870622816. OCLC 10126623.
• Brigandi, Phil (2004). Barnstorming the Desert: the Life of Randall Henderson, Founder of Desert Magazine and a Pioneer Pilot of the Desert Southwest. Henderson, NV: Howard W. Cannon Aviation Museum. p. 43. ISBN 978-0974912400. OCLC 71144217.
• Henderson, Randall; McKinney, Wilson (1997). Desert Magazine Collection. Northern Arizona University, Cline Library. ISBN 9780870622816. OCLC 52914837. Archive material{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• McKenney, J. Wilson (1972). Desert Editor ... the story of Randall Henderson and Palm Desert. Georgetown, California: Wilmac Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780870622816. LCCN 79190619. OCLC 448170. LCC PN4874.H457 M3
• Wild, Peter (2004). Desert Magazine: The Henderson Years. Johannesburg, California: The Shady Myrick Research Project. p. 112. OCLC 56193617.
• Wild, Peter (2005). Marshal South, of Yaquitepec. Johannesburg, California: The Shady Myrick Research Project. p. 157. OCLC 58796769. – South wrote a series of highly popular "Desert Refuge" articles (1940–1946) about his primitive life on the desert

• Official website
• Desert Magazine at the Internet Archive
• Desert Magazine archives (1937-1951) at the University of Arizona Campus Repository