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In 1932, George Palmer, a pilot flying between Las Vegas, Nevada and Blythe, California noticed the Blythe geoglyphs. [7] His find led to a survey of the area in the same year by Arthur Woodward, Curator of History and Anthropology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. [8]
Galleta Meadows Estate is privately owned desert estate land that consists of many separate plots in Borrego Springs, California, and that features over 130 large metal art sculptures. [1] The sculptures were created by Southern California artist Ricardo Breceda via commission from Dennis Avery, the owner of Galleta Meadows. [ 2 ]
There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. [5]: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on the northwest, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains on the south, and extends eastward to California's borders with Arizona and Nevada; it also forms portions of northwest Arizona.
Kelso Dunes, also known as the Kelso Dune Field, is the largest field of aeolian sand deposits in the Mojave Desert.The region is protected by the Mojave National Preserve and is located near the town of Baker, San Bernardino County, California, and the Preserve Visitor Center. [2]
Cabot's Pueblo Museum is an American historic house museum located in Desert Hot Springs, California, and built by Cabot Yerxa, an early pioneer of the Colorado Desert.A large, Hopi-style pueblo, built in the Pueblo Revival Style, it contains artworks, artifacts of American Indian and Alaska Native cultures, and memorabilia of early desert homesteader life.
The inaugural running of the event was on 8 November 1997 as the Desert Stormer Handicap over a distance of 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 furlongs at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California as the first race on the undercard for the Breeders' Cup program. [1] The event was named in honor of Desert Stormer, winner of the 1995 Breeders' Cup Sprint. [2]
Desert Wine broke second in the field of twelve colts on a muddy track. [2] He had speed from the start, and Chris McCarron used it to take the lead going into Pimlico 's famous "Clubhouse turn." Despite the off track, Desert Wine set fast early fractions of :23-1/5 for the first quarter and :46-4/5 for the half mile.
HABS No. CA-2347-E, "Desert Queen Ranch, North House" HABS No. CA-2347-F, "Desert Queen Ranch, Tack House" HABS No. CA-2347-G, "Desert Queen Ranch, South House" HABS No. CA-2347-H, "Desert Queen Ranch, Machine Shop" Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. CA-111, "Desert Queen Ranch" HAER No. CA-111-A, "Desert Queen Ranch, One Stamp ...