Cabot Yerka Adventurer: Memories of an Essential American Life.

Before he built the Old Indian Pueblo in Desert Hot Springs, CA, Cabot Yerxa sold cigars to gold miners in Nome, Alaska (1900), heard Chief Red Cloud resign his leadership of the Sioux Nation (1903), homesteaded in the California desert (1913-1918), joined the Army’s first tank corps in World War I (1918), kept a store on the Colorado River frontier (1919-1925), studied art in bohemian Paris (1925), and seldom lost his good humor or his sense of the mementous times he was living through. In memoirs, letters, and journal pages he recorded his unforgettable adventures. His own photos and sketches bring the stories to life.