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Deserts
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"The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California."
- John Steinbeck from Travels With Charley: in Search of America
Covered Wagons, Oregon Trail Interpretive Center, Baker, OR
Jumbo Rocks, Joshua Tree National Park, Mojave Desert, CA
Got water? Let's go...
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Death Valley National Park, CA left: 20-mule-team borax wagons center: Plants growing in sand at the Eureka Dunes right: The Devil's Golf Course - salt field |
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Mojave Desert, CA left: Joshua tree with blooms, Joshua Tree National Park center: The historic Kelso Depot, East Mojave Preserve right: Sculpted sandstone, Red Rock Canyon State Park |
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High Desert, Eastern Oregon left: Barn at historic P Ranch, Malheur NWR center: Playa of Alvord Desert below Steens Mountain right: Wildflowers and eroded formation, Leslie Gulch |
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left: Antique wagons at the Oxbow Trade Company
right: Hikers in Golden Canyon, Death Valley National Park |
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From the sun-baked playas and salt flats of the Great Basin, to the arid high desert plains of eastern Oregon, to the expansive wasteland of the Mojave, the deserts of the American West were a formidable challenge to those who sought their fortunes in the gold fields of California or followed the Oregon Trail to the rich farmlands of the Willamette Valley during the nineteenth century.
It is difficult to imagine how arduous and dangerous such a journey must have been now that automobiles have made our deserts comfortably accessible. But they are nonetheless vast, stark, desolate lands of extreme contrasts. And therein lies their beauty and allure. A visit can be rejuvenating too, as there is tranquil solitude to be found in these places of wide earth and big sky.
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