In the desert of waiting

Annie Fellows Johnston (1863–1931) was an American author of children's fiction novels. Her most famous works are 'Big Brother', 'Joel: a boy of Galilee' and, of course, 'The Little Colonel', a love story of a southern girl and a northerner in the post American Civil War times. Hollywood studio Fox created a film based on Johnston's story and made it forever iconic in the western audience's hearts.

In the desert of waiting: the legend of Camel-Back Mountain was published in 1905. The book is not as popular as other books of the author, but still, it has a cultural value and is worth reading.

O ye, who vainly question

Why there must ever lie twixt man

And the far City of his Desire

Some desert waste of disappointment,

Where he must watch the Caravan

Pass on and leave him with his baffled hopes,

Here is the reason.

By the grace of Allah,