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A newspaperman from the 1950s dives into a legend from over 40 years prior, and identifies a manhunt. But history and legend battle each other and make this story a timeless mystery. Did Willie Boy get away? You decide.
Alien sightings and contacts have inspired the continuing allure of the Mojave Desert's great landmarks: Giant Rock and Integratron.
Cadiz Inc.’s 34,000-acre property is located just south of the old Santa Fe railroad line between one of the last undeveloped stretches of historic Route 66 in the middle of a contentious public-private water grab. This is how it's all playing out.
The landscape of the Antelope Valley has undergone a transformation due to exponential growth and development over the last 40 years. But as the region’s landscape is modified and its demographics shift, the land is revealing something sinister.
The Mojave Desert is widely known as a military and aerospace testing site, but alongside them are amateur rocketeers who explore near space on their own time and dime.
About a decade after it was established as a National Monument in 1936, Joshua Tree began drawing the attention of another kind of prospector, seeking a different kind of relationship with the landscape: the Climber.
Branded in the past for having “more prisons than supermarkets,” Adelanto’s city leaders have turned to commercial cannabis cultivation to pull the city out of insolvency.
Mary Beal dedicated most of her life to documenting and photographing the plants of the California deserts. Between 1939 and 1953, the now-defunct Desert Magazine published her columns which reminded readers that finding plants could be an adventure.
The Kokoweef legend peddling E.P. Dorr’s Lost River of Gold has mesmerized Mojave Desert treasure seekers for over 80 years now, but is it geologically possible?
It is no secret that many Native Americans were displaced from ancestral lands during the founding of some of America’s national parks. Death Valley National Park is no exception.
Established in 1877 near Death Valley, the tiny desert mining outpost of Darwin is home to a group of eclectic artists.
Gold and silver lured many a prospector out to the Mojave Desert, but the mineral compound that surprisingly proved most financially lucrative for a handful of them is common borax.