Anza-Borrego Central: Marshal South Ruins

Ruins, Marshal South House

Marshal South was a Depression-era writer and poet who with his wife built a home on Ghost Mountain and raised two children there.  From 1939 until 1948 South wrote 80 articles for Desert Magazine about life in "Yaquitepec", his name for the South home on Ghost Mountain.  He also authored four books and many poems. He and his wife had three children on Ghost Mountain and he became famous for his stories of living off the land.  But there is much more to the story... 

Photos of the South's from early Desert Magazines.

In Blair Valley, at the end of a three-mile drive over an unpaved road, the fairly easy mile-long climb to the mountain-top affords views of the surrounding mountains and valleys. In wildflower season here, which is usually later than in Borrego Valley, the blossoms can be quite nice.