The ''Desert Rat Scrap Book'' (or DRSB) was a roughly quarterly
southwestern humor publication based in
Thousand Palms, California
Thousand Palms is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Coachella Valley of Riverside County, California, United States. The population was 7,967 at the 2020 census, up from 7,715 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Thousand Palms is located at .
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. DRSB was published in editions of 10,000 to 20,000 copies, whenever its creator,
Harry Oliver had sufficient material and enough money to pay the printer. Forty-six issues were printed and distributed via Southern California bookstores and newsstands, and by mail worldwide. DRSB was devoted to lore, legends, lies and laughs of the American Southwest region, especially featuring
prospectors
Prospecting is the first stage of the geological analysis (followed by exploration) of a territory. It is the search for minerals, fossils, precious metals, or mineral specimens. It is also known as fossicking.
Traditionally prospecting rel ...
and other desert rats. The publication was launched in late 1945 and ran through early 1967.
See also
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Harry Oliver
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Desert Steve Ragsdale
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Jimmy Swinnerton
James Guilford Swinnerton (November 13, 1875 – September 5, 1974) was an American cartoonist and a landscape painter of the Southwest deserts. He was known as Jimmy to some and Swinny to others. He signed some of his early cartoons Swin, and on ...
(artist)
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Desert Magazine
''Desert Magazine'' was a monthly regional publication based in the Colorado Desert published between 1937 and 1985. A print version bearing the same name has been revived in the Coachella Valley town of Palm Desert near Palm Springs, California ...
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Tombstone Epitaph
''The Tombstone Epitaph'' is a Tombstone, Arizona, Tombstone, Arizona, monthly publication that covers the history and culture of the Old West. Founded in January 1880 (with its first issue published on Saturday May 1, 1880), it is the oldest c ...
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Calico Print'' (magazine)
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Lifestyle magazines published in the United States
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History of the Mojave Desert region
Magazines established in 1945
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