Exit 31

About the Book

This is an account of what happened before Northern Yuma County seceded and re-emerged in 1983 as La Paz County. It tells of life in the “past lane” in a time fading from memory. So, hopefully some of what the desert rats did and said will live on in these pages, and the reader will learn of the struggle they had in this harsh land—and what they did to survive.

You take Exit 31 to follow Highway 60 through the Renegras Plain, and pass through Brenda, Hope, Vicksburg Junction, Salome, and Wenden.

About the Author

Ruth Burke was born in Los Angeles, but left California as soon as she could. She has spent about 30 years in Arizona—seventeen of which were in the Southwest area. She was caretaker of the Rob Roy Mine, in the Kofa Mountains, during 1975–76 and was a bookmobile driver for the Yuma City-County Library from 1981 to 1984. She is a graduate of East Los Angeles College and San Diego State and has taken graduate work at Western New Mexico University.