| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2 | The History Cooperative

*Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles: An Experiment in Primitive Living.* Edited by Diana Lindsay. Introduction by Rider and Lucile South. (El Cajon, CA: Sunbelt, 2005. 336 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography. $21.95, paper.)
Marshal South, an Australian-born writer of some accomplishment, took his wife Tanya to the Anza-Borrego desert in 1931 and began building a house on a remote, waterless hilltop. He eventually helped to raise three children there, the oldest thirteen when, in 1946, Tanya left, divorced him, and the "experiment in primitive living" collapsed. South died two years after Tanya left; she lived until 1997, dying at age 99 and keeping quiet about the sixteen years on Ghost Mountain. The children, mainly represented in this book by the first-born, Rider, seem to have turned out normal enough. But the scuttlebutt about the family grew, largely because of Tanya's angry, fifty-year silence.	1
Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles puts the rumor-mill pretty much to rest, by means of Rider's and his wife Lucile's very sensible "Introduction" and editor Diana Lindsay's fair-minded and scholarly "Foreword." It seems that Marshal South was a "hopeless romantic," in Lindsay's words, and yet: there were those sixteen years.	. . .

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