![]() ![]() Valdez Quade carried the stories she picked up in her childhood travels with her as she continued her peripatetic ways into adulthood, garnering prizes for her writing along the way. In the middle of it there’s a grave that’s allegedly that of the LeBeau sisters-three sisters who died of diphtheria.” There’s this one span called the Forty Mile Desert, where a lot of settlers would die because there was no water for 40 miles. “We frequently crossed the Mojave Desert. Valdez Quade says in her sunny office on the campus of Princeton University. ![]() “My parents would tell me stories connected to where we were,” Ms. She read constantly in the backseat of the car, as they traveled for her father’s field studies, and absorbed desert lore. She estimates that while she was growing up, she attended 13 different schools throughout the Southwest as her father, a research geologist, moved around for work. ![]()
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