Great God Pan, issue #14 - "Salt Desert Tales". Edited by Erik Bluhm and Mark Sundeen.
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Great God Pan, issue #14, "Salt Desert Tales", edited by Erik Bluhm and Mark Sundeen

This is issue #14, the last print issue of Great God Pan, a magazine of Californiana and Western American history that was created and edited by Erik Bluhm and Mark Sundeen until the year 2000. This issue focuses on The Great Basin that stretches from Salt Lake City on the shoulders of the Wasatch Mountains west to the Sierra Mountians. The editors writer's cottage was located in Wendover Utah as Bluhm and Sundeen were on a residency sponsored by the Center For Land Use Interpretation. From the back cover:

"Vast expanses of Utah - its entire northwest quadrant, specifically - are barren, waterless, windblown, salt-caked, too hot or too cold, God-forsaken and just generally unfit for human habitation. If not for the advent of rocket bombs, toxic waste, and casinos, this desert of Deseret might still be left to the coyotes. It's a land so vast, unpopulated and far-removed that the most you'll hear about it is from a book like this one."

This mag measures around 6 x 9.5", has a full color cover and 158 black and white pages. salt Desert Tales features articles on living in Wendover, the development of buzz bombs and early rockets on the salt flats, the Salt Lake City Public Library hostage takeover, Mark Sundeen's "Car Camping" column, reviews of books for the western reader and the story of Utah's fruit and nut set.

There are not too many of these back issues available in the Great God Pan vaults. We're fortunate to have a few to make available. $10 for one issue includes postage.