Sinclair Ads

Big Bend National Park  copySure, they might not be in line with your "values" (The headline on the Mesa Verde National Park advertisement reads: "America's first apartment houses - today they belong to you!"), but these old Sinclair/National Park ads sure are good looking. And while searching for more on eBay, it's impossible not to think of the last passage in the intro to Desert Solitaire.

Do not jump in your automobile next June and rush out to the Canyon country hoping to see some of that which I have attempted to evoke in these pages. In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll see something, maybe. Probably not.

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