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0.1. Base map of the Great Basin xvii 1.1. Humboldt River near Mill City, Nevada 2 1.2. White Mountains and Boundary Peak, California-Nevada border 3 2.1. Cleft in rocks, Joshua Tree National Park 30 2.2. Illustration of old Indian woman from Frémont’s Memoirs 33 2.3. Lehman Caves, Nevada 35 3.1. Piñon pine 40 3.2. Columbus Salt Marsh, Nevada 42 3.3. Benches or terraces on Lahontan Mountains, Nevada 43 3.4. Paoha Island and Mono Lake 48 4.1. Lunar Crater, Nevada 62 4.2. Illustration of Pyramid Lake, 1844 66 4.3. Sketch of Promontory, Flat Rock Point, Utah 67 4.4. Cathedral Gorge, Nevada 72 4.5. Etching of Devil’s Gate near Virginia City, Nevada 76 4.6. Sand Mountain, central Nevada 79 5.1. Dust devil 83 5.2. Sketch of a huge dust devil containing several smaller ones 87 5.3. Illustration of a strong wind from J. Ross Browne’s “A Peep at Washoe” 91 5.4. Illustration of Mark Twain’s “Chinaman flying an iron door for a kite.” 92 6.1. Petroglyphs of mountain sheep in eastern California’s Coso Mountains 107 Illustrations xi Francaviglia/FM(22) 6/9/03 6:30 PM Page xi 6.2. Paiute (Numu) spiritual leader and prophet Wovoka as depicted in lifesize diorama 110 6.3. Drawing of Wovoka, 1892 113 6.4. Joshua tree 118 7.1. Truckee River near site of Pyramid Lake War (1860) 128 7.2. Map, State of Deseret, 1849–1851 134 7.3. 1896 map comparing Deseret to the Holy Land 135 7.4. Site of Mountain Meadows Massacre 136 7.5. Bristlecone pines, Snake Range, Nevada 141 8.1. “First View of Great Salt Lake Valley from a Mountain Pass” (1852) 147 8.2. Lithograph, “Great Salt Lake City from the North” (1861) 149 8.3. Mount Nebo from Nephi, Utah 154 8.4. Mormon symbols on building pediment in Spring City, Utah 156 8.5. Mormon irrigation ditch, Parowan, Utah 158 8.6. Lombardy poplars 163 9.1. Paiute cane dice and stick dice 168 9.2. Ophir, Utah 174 10.1. Bunkers, Hawthorne Army Ammunition Depot, Nevada 187 10.2. Nuclear bomb detonation, Nevada Test Site, May 19, 1953 194 10.3. Cartoon, “Back Where We Started,” 1950 195 10.4. Sedan Crater, Nevada Test Site 200 11.1. Sketch of Rock Creek Canyon, north-central Nevada 210 11.2. Sketch of Eagle Rock, north-central Nevada 211 11.3. Desert Christ Park, Yucca Valley, California 220 11.4. “Burning Man” event, northwestern Nevada 222 11.5. Ground Zero by DeWayne Williams, Black Rock Desert, Nevada 224 11.6. Native American Medicine Wheel, Wyoming 224 12.1. Scene from film Vanishing Point 231 12.2. Aerial view of Great Basin near Utah-Nevada border 247 xii | illustrations Francaviglia/FM(22) 6/9/03 6:30 PM Page xii ...

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