Where else but in Virginia City could a penniless Irish miner in a few short years amass a fortune greater than any of America’s robber barons, simply by dint of hard work and intuition, and remain a
For a thousand generations, desert shamans of the far West sought order in the stars and in the mysteries and wonder of their grand, if unforgiving landscape. When summoned, they doctored the stricken
Documentary filmmaker and author Clapp, who has studied, filmed, and written about deserts around the world, offers a pictorial history of the Mojave desert that depicts the final days of the Old West
An illumination of the life of the Queen of Sheba, deciphered through satellite images that track Sheba on ancient caravan routes through archaeological sites, sheds new light on the famed biblical fi
Author Nicholas Clapp and photographer Will Furman portray Bodie in both vivid words and stunning photography—a town that had two sides, aptly described in an 1870s account...On the eve of her family’
