Palm Springs Then and Now Parrots of the Wild Indio was a town full

Indio was a town full of men working for the railroad and on ranches

The first-person accounts are tied together with extensive introductions and commentaries by two well-known scholars

8th Edition

Roger Mitchell

Palm Springs Then and Now Parrots of the Wild Indio was a town fullIn the late 1800s, lands of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians were subdivided into sections. Even numbered sections were designated as Indian, and the Southern Pacific Railroad was given odd numbered sections. This book focuses on Section 15, sold by the railroad to early Palm Springs settlers. Eighty photographs from 1946 show a flourishing business district. text and contemporary images by Roger C. Palmer, PhD, volunteer registrar of the