Harold O. Weight was an American author and magazine editor. Formerly a staff editor at Desert Magazine, together with Lucile Weight, in November 1950 the duo became the principal ...view moreHarold O. Weight was an American author and magazine editor. Formerly a staff editor at Desert Magazine, together with Lucile Weight, in November 1950 the duo became the principal editors of Calico Print, a monthly (later bi-monthly) periodical of the mid-20th century, containing tales and trails of the desert west. The Calico Print was discontinued at the end of 1953, and the Weights concentrated on writing books on desert history, including: Lost Mines of Death Valley (1953); Twenty Mule Team Days in Death Valley (1955); Rhyolite, Lost Ship of the Desert (1959); The Ghost City of Golden Dreams (1959); Lost Mines of Old Arizona (1959); and Greenwater (1969).view less