Desert Country
Areas covered are: Death Valley, Mojave Desert, Old Mining Towns, Ridgecrest & China Lake.
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Gold and Silver in the Mojave: Images of a Last Frontier
It is widely held that the Old West, wild and wooly, ceased to exist by 1890, when the U.S. Census concluded: There can hardly be said to be a frontier line. But there was: an irregular line looping through eastern California and Nevada, and encompassing the better part of the Mojave Desert.
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Gold Gamble
Gold! Few things in history have sparked the imagination so brightly as this glittering, elusive metal.
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Good Samaritans of Death Valley
Rare is the Death Valley story that has been ignored by historians, but we have found one such subject; the story of Lou Wescott Beck and his dog Rufus.
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Images of America: Around Boron
In the late 1920s, this high desert area with little water and unproductive soil held no attraction for most people, but the small community of Amargo provided a grocery store, gas station, and of course a saloon for the convenience of tenacious gold and borax prospectors.
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Images of America: Tehachapi
An "unusual name for an unusual place," Tehachapi is actually a Southern Paiute description for the convergence of the Mojave Desert and the wetlands of California's southern Central Valley.
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