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Award-winning author

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Joshua Tree and Hoover Dam

Donald Pisani's history of perhaps the boldest economic and social program ever undertaken in the United States--to reclaim and cultivate vast areas of previously unusable land across the country—shows in fascinating detail how ambitious government programs fall prey to the power of local interest groups and the federal system of governance itself

Spooky Southwest Coachella Valley hiking Although maps of the countryPull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for thirty creepy tales of ghostly haunting's, eerie happenings and other strange occurrences from times past.