Referenced In

Mecca
by Susan Straight

"As we passed Palm Desert and Rancho Mirage, the Cherokee was shuddering like a little kid who’s been crying and can’t stop."

The Barbarian Nurseries
by Héctor Tobar

"“It’s an ocotillo. I call it ‘the burning bush’ because it looks like something from the Ten Commandments. It must be a good twenty years old. This one isn’t from the nursery, of course, it’s a transplant. We rescued it from the Palm Springs area, from Rancho Mirage, to be exact.”"

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"No one wanted to believe that it could get as hot as it had become; it was simply impossible. But the temperature readings at the Security National Bank in Rancho Mirage would read 111 and 112 and 113 and all I could do was stare at the numbers, refusing to believe that it could get that hot, that hellish."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"All I know is that he’s staying at the house in Rancho Mirage or at the house in the Colony."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"We had been there off and on for nine weeks and nowhere else except Rancho Mirage for the past three."

Less Than Zero
by Bret Easton Ellis

"A few miles from Rancho Mirage, there was a house that belonged to a friend of one of my cousin’s."