Publishing the Southwest

Publishing the Southwest There is nothing, I believe, so evocative of the desert Southwest as the word “Pinacate,” referring to the volcanic field straddling, with the Gran Desierto, the southwestern Arizona-Sonora border. It is the site and intersection of prehistoric trading routes, of historic pathways and personal journeys, and, more recently, of scientific expeditions. It is, as well, a place of enormous aesthetic claim, a compelling and enrapturing landscape that has captured and preserved forever the legendary names: MacDougal, Hornaday, Lumholtz, Sykes, Ives, and Hayden, for starters . This issue of JSW presents the first of two parts dedicated to one hundred years of scientific study in the Pinacate—a regional sociology of science—edited by Bill Broyles, himself a Pinacateño of legendary status. The Autumn 2007 issue will contain part two, and will be published immediately following this one. Watch for it. —Joseph Wilder ...