Gold and Silver in the Mojave - Images of a Last Frontier Coachella Valley hiking and workers transformed the natural

and workers transformed the natural and social landscape of California

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Full-color images and informative text combine to identify waterfowl found throughout the world

and exceptional drawings illustrate the text

Gold and Silver in the Mojave - Images of a Last Frontier Coachella Valley hiking and workers transformed the naturalIt 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. It was there that in 1895, a hapless prospector idly hammered a rock from an outcrop. It was filigreed with gold. A rush was on to Randsburg in 1898, then to