Further Reading
- Death Valley Scotty by Mabel, by Bessie Johnson. An account in Bessie's own words about what it was like to live alongside the famed Scotty in Death Valley. It is a charming book, but may lack historical objectivity as it was written for consumption by tourists at Scotty's Castle in the 1930s.
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