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Cousins Susie Keef Smith and Lula Mae Graves couldn’t have been more different. While Susie was charismatic and talkative, Lula was solemn and silent. Susie was disabled by childhood polio; Lula suffered years of childhood neglect. But, after Susie took a job as postmaster in Mecca, on the edge of California's Salton Sea, she and Lula set out to photograph the last of the prospectors, burro packers and stage stops in the remote desert to the east. They traveled by burro, foot and Ford though sandy washes and roadless canyons, armed with a .38 revolver and a large format camera. Together, they took photographs and made postcards to sell on spinner racks from Yuma to Beaumont, and became Western heroines.
The Desert Sun wrote a great story about the exhibit -
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