It is certainly no secret that the American West is a land of myth. One does not have to look far into the historical record to realize that cowboys were mostly exploited wage laborers, that the vast ...

American Indians were the first humans in the California desert. In fact, native Mojaves, Chemehuevis, and Quechans lived there for thousands of years before European explorers set foot in North ...

Salt deserts are among the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet. Credit: Dr Lucas Goehring Salt deserts are among the most extreme and inhospitable places on the planet and their bizarre ...

CHIRIACO SUMMIT, Calif. (KESQ) – California's Colorado Desert is home to the Coachella Valley, as well as a deep history of training American soldiers. The General Patton Memorial Museum in Chiriaco ...

In the preface of his first book, New Mexico-raised journalist Kyle Paoletta describes the deserts of the American Southwest in the eyes of early non-native settlers as “a vacancy in need of filling,” ...

We may imagine the desert to be a barren, empty place of sun drenched sands. But here, in the deserts of Arabia, a myriad of beautiful flowers bloom. Fragrent oxeye is a relatively common sight in the ...