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The ''Calico Print'' was a newspaper, established in 1882 and published during the heyday of the silver mining camp of
Calico, California Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains (California), Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silve ...
prior to 1902. The ''Calico Print'' was also the name of a monthly, later bi-monthly, periodical of the mid-20th century, and contained "Tales and trails of the desert West.";


Revival history


1930s

The ''Calico Print'' revival was established by Grail Fuller and Lucille Coke in the 1930s as a monthly tabloid, reprinting articles from the original newspaper as well as original material. It was sold primarily for visitors to
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's rebuilt
Calico Ghost Town Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and was later c ...
.


1950s

With the November, 1950, issue of ''Calico Print'', Harold and Lucile Weight, former staff editors at ''
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'', became the principal editors. They produced 17 monthly issues in the tabloid form. But the Weights had slipped back into the same deadline-driven routine that drove them from ''Desert Magazine'', forcing them to neglect their efforts to record the stories and history of rapidly disappearing desert pioneers. To cope with that, periodicity of ''Calico Print'' was changed to one every two months and the format was changed to that of a slick illustrated
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. Nine issues of ''Calico Print'' in magazine form were issued from June 1952 through November 1953 by the Weight's Calico Press in
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. These nine issues, packed with detailed desert history, are now highly prized by desert enthusiasts. In addition to articles authored by the Weights, there are contributions from other noted writers – Adelaide Arnold, L. Burr Belden, Ed Rochester, Edmund C. Jaeger, Jerry Laudermilk, Charles F. Lummis, Arthur Woodward, Senator Charles Brown,
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, Ruth Kirk, and more. In the nine-issue run of ''Calico Print'', in its magazine format, a so-called "Folio" section is included in several of the issues. Of special interest among these Folios is the one devoted to an exhaustive study of Wm. B. Rood, of Death Valley pioneer fame, published in the Aug–Sept 1952. Other such Folios covered the
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(June 1952);
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(Oct–Nov 1952);
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(January 1953); The Great Survey (March 1953); the Kofa Mountains and King Mine of Arizona (May 1953);
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, California's Oldest Mine (July 1953); and the legends of the Lost Ship of the Desert (November 1953). The ''Calico Print'' was discontinued at the end of 1953, and the Weights concentrated on their occasional Southwest Panomama series of books on desert history.


See also

* ''
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'' * ''
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'' * ''
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'' * Lost Ship of the Desert *
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References

* {{cite book, title=An Introductory Note to Harold and Lucile Weight's Calico Print', year=1993, publisher=Tales of the Mojave Road, location=Essex, CA, isbn=0-914224-26-3, pages=16, author=Dennis G. Casebier, author2=Weight, Harold O. , author3=Weight, Lucy , quote=...reissue of the Calico Print produced from 1950 through 1953... orldCat note, oclc= 35012796 Defunct magazines published in the United States History of the Mojave Desert region History of California History of the American West History of Nevada History of Arizona Publications established in 1882 Magazines disestablished in 1953 1882 establishments in California