Maruba - Homesteading in Lanfair Valley

Maud Sharp's powerful and poignant personal family story of high desert homesteading. In July of 1913, newlyweds Bert and Maud Sharp claimed their Lanfair Valley homestead in the scenic high desert country of the East Mojave. For the next seventeen year, the Sharps raised a family, worked for the local cattle, mining, and railroad interests, and became part of the fabric of a rural community. Although they experienced hardships, to them it was a grand adventure. Maud Morrow Sharp and Margaret Sharp Moore, 2004, 171 pages, softcover