NMLP P-021162 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
The Land of Little Rain
Mary Hunter Austin · Houghton, Mifflin and Company (Boston & New York) · 1903
US Houghton, Mifflin (1903) is the true first—the foundational California/Mojave desert nature classic. The 1903 first issue with the E. Boyd Smith decorations and Riverside Press imprint is the cornerstone; later printings/reprints are 'first thus.'
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-021162 for "The Land of Little Rain" by Mary Hunter Austin (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-021162, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).