malpais

• “Plain to see, each would guide a party around some predetermined section of the malpais.”

  Operation Luna

• “We landed in a gaunt part of the malpais, beyond sight of anything human, and got off.”

  Operation Luna

• “Do you suppose an invalid would traipse around the malpais after dark?”

  Operation Luna

• “I did describe our search through the malpais with the two feds.”

  Operation Luna

• “The night before, in the little cave where he rested, he had seen a snake, though it was much too cold for snakes to be moving about; worse, late in the night, he had heard the call of an owl, though he was far out on the malpais, where no owls flew.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dead Man’s Walk

• “He knew the large woman must be a witch, for only a witch would be traveling through the malpais with so many men.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dead Man’s Walk

• “Parts of our Arizona range were covered with great beds of broken malpais rock, really black lava, hard as iron, with edges sharp and jagged.”

  Ranching, Sport and Travel

• “As the advance guard of dawn emerged from behind the serrated peaks to the east and paused on their snow-encrusted summits before charging down the slopes into the open desert to rout the lingering shadows of the night, a coyote came out of his den in the tumbled _malpais_ at the foot of the range, pointed his nose skyward and voiced his matutinal salute to the Hosts of Light.”

  The Long Chance

• “A low range of black malpais buttes stretched between him and the man he had despoiled, and as yet the direction of his flight could not be observed.”

  The Long Chance

• “Into water-gutted arroyos they descended, slid down breakneck shale ridges, climbed like heather cats the banks of dry washes, pounded over white porous _malpais_ on which no vegetation grew.”

  Oh, You Tex!

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