Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California.

Now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.

Well, night has fallen on the Mojave and not too long ago I was at the saloon here in Joshua Tree with my friend

Jason P. Woodbury, the writer from Arizona. We were talking about the strange old ruins around

his rural hometown in Arizona and then he started talking about La Yerona,

the weeping woman,

the man she that walks

the riverbank

in the lake shores

and the irrigation canals

looking for her children.

Looking for the children that she drowned.

The children she murdered and arranged against who or what.

There are many variations of the story.

And if you've lived in the southwest or in Mexico you've heard the tales

maybe you've seen laurona now jason woodberry is from out by coolidge and casagrand mostly rural

and agricultural areas in the Gila River watershed.

There's the San Pedro River down there as well, and the Santa Cruz River, both of these branching off the Gila River.

An interesting thing is that both the Santa Cruz and the San Pedro have their headwaters

in the Sonoran Desert Mountains of Mexico, and the San Rafael Valley and the Patagonia

Mountains to the west at the north end of the Mexican state of Sonora, the land of the last Mexican wild wolves.

You know, there's a pair of them under protective custody of the living desert zoo down in Indian Wells and Palm Desert.

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