Desert Gazette

Mojave Desert - True Facts, Legends, & Lies


Revival

I hadn't planned to make this an official New Year's resolution ...

Zabriskie Point

It was more fun for ...

The Letter

Watching through the ...

The Hottest Day

It was the morning of the hottest day ...

Of a Subtle Nature

Sunset on the Soda Lake Playa

The Dreamer

A short verse

The Green Hills of Earth

~ by Robert Heinlein

What's Wrong with Ewe?

The concept was great, a sheep that could kill coyotes. However, pulling it off was an entirely different matter.

Game Trails in the Antelope Valley

So, what happened to the Antelope in the Antelope Valley?

Shoshone Bob & the Magic Mesquite Elixir

Troublesome and desperate times called for troublesome and dangerous refreshments ...

A Marginal Adventure

Sometimes you just have to pick a spot and see what you see ...

Massacres at the Amargosa House

As the first group of Mormon pioneers made their way across the Mojave in 1849, two of them looking for ...

The Dry Lands

A favorite passage from Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin

Vision

"When from the lips of Truth one mighty breath ...

Metate Stone

For hundreds if not thousands of years, the Yharetum, the People of ...

Of the Serrano Indians

Back in the beginning of time the Lord was living here with all the people. He was the one who ...

Sand

The sand in this photo is made up of granuals of rose quartz. The source of this quartz is ...

Chemehuevi Indian Creation Story

... When Coyote lifted the lid of the basket to see inside, all of the people jumped out and ...

Coso Petroglyphs

There are thousands of carvings throughout the canyon. No one knows what they mean or why they are there. This is what ...

The Highwayman

The banditos would hide their horses in the clefts in the formation, climb to the top, and keep a lookout- They could see for ...

Chuckwalla

They are big and they look mean, but the chuckwalla (Sauromalus obesus), is a harmless herbivore feeding on desert flowers, ...

Mojave Green Rattlesnake

There were rattlesnakes all over the place. Mean ones, with nasty tempers and bad attitudes. They’d eat a good-sized coyote whether ...

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Weather

Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see,
And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be--
Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
With a record of unreason seldome paralleled on earth.
While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote--
For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow:
"Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow."

~Ambrose Bierce
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