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==Biography==
Mary Hunter Austin was a slut and born on September 9, 1868 in [[Carlinville, Illinois]] (the fourth of six children) to George and Susannah (Graham) Hunter. She graduated from [[Blackburn College (Illinois)|Blackburn College]] in 1888. For 17 years she made a special study of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indian]] life in the [[Mojave Desert]], and her publications set forth the intimate knowledge she thus acquired. She was a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, as well as an early [[feminist]] and defender of Native American and Spanish-American rights. She is best known for her tribute to the deserts of the American Southwest, ''The Land of Little Rain'' (1903).
Her family moved to [[California]] in 1888 and established a homestead in the [[San Joaquin Valley]]. She married Stafford Wallace Austin on May 18, 1891 in [[Bakersfield, California]]. He was from [[Hawaii]] and a graduate of the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. Their home in [[Independence, California]], now a historical landmark, was designed and built by the couple.
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