Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape 1938-2008
Kim Stringfellow

Finally someone does a book about these hundreds of tiny little cabins, built mostly in the 1940’s and 1950s, rotting away in the region near Joshua Tree, in the Morongo Basin. While there have been some photo projects that have touched on them, like John Divola’s Isolated Houses, Stringfellow provides some essential text describing how they came to be, as well as images depicting their current state of disintegration, in a taxinomical way, similar to her previous book, in the same format, about the Salton Sea. She is the regional queen of desiccated desert rot.

Center for American Places, 2009 hardcover, 135 pages, many color illustrations