04 Dec 2021 Voices from Death Valley’s Chaos Bennie still makes me smile and laugh and Lauren still draws out my more serious side, even though both men… Kim Stringfellow
21 Mar 2020 Bringing Creation Back Together Again: The Salt Songs of the Nuwuvi It is no surprise that Matt Leivas, Sr. is a ram. By this I mean he is a Na, a… Kim Stringfellow
17 Nov 2019 The Technicolor Desert: Cinema and the Mojave Virtually pressed up against the northern boundaries of Los Angeles, the Mojave Desert is Hollywood’s backyard, if not its backlot,… Kim Stringfellow
15 Sep 2019 Desert Gold: Part III >On a smaller scale, recreational prospecting thrives throughout the West—especially in its desert regions. Instead of a scruffy dusty burro… Kim Stringfellow
23 Mar 2019 Desert Gold: Part II The General Mining Act of 1872 encourages exploration, claiming and mining of valuable mineral deposits by U.S. citizens of “ordinary… Kim Stringfellow
13 Dec 2018 Making Astronauts in Mojave “How do you keep a spaceship simple?” Dan Kreigh rhetorically asks several dozen attendees of Plane Crazy Saturday, a monthly… Kim Stringfellow
08 Aug 2018 Old Woman of the Mountain In 1934, Jack and Ida Mitchell made their way to the Providence Mountains with the desire to reinvent themselves. Four… Kim Stringfellow
25 Jun 2018 Willie Boy: How A Manhunt Became Myth “The white people keep getting the story wrong. All of us know that Willie Boy got away...At least that’s what… Kim Stringfellow
25 Apr 2018 Giant Rock, Space People and the Integratron On the morning of February 21, 2000, at 8:20 a.m., an extraordinary event occurred. In outlying Landers, California, an immense… Kim Stringfellow
30 Jun 2017 Landscape of Belonging: Joshua Tree’s Climbing Legacy It was an idyllic era for us ‘old-timers.’ We climbed the obvious lines, picked our competition and leisurely experimented with… Kim Stringfellow
03 Sep 2016 In Bloom: Mary Beal’s Mojave Readers of the now-defunct Desert Magazine, known as DM to its most faithful, followed Randall Henderson’s popular editorial column entitled… Kim Stringfellow
02 Aug 2016 Kokoweef: Still Searching for the Lost River of Gold Either Uncle Earl Dorr discovered the richest gold deposit in the United States…or he was the most imaginative liar in… Kim Stringfellow
24 Feb 2016 That High Desert Sound Where sage and bloom and pine trees meet the waterfall. Where the mountains meet the sky. Through the pines and… Kim Stringfellow
04 Jan 2016 Marta Becket’s Amargosa Opera House A fortune teller’s prophecy and a fortuitous flat tire led the multitalented doyenne Marta Becket to resurrect and transform Death… Kim Stringfellow
30 Aug 2015 Gopherus agassizii: A Cultural History of Tortoises The desert tortoise has been under siege by humans long before the Mojave Desert’s militarized and suburbanized landscape began to… Kim Stringfellow
10 Jul 2015 Zzyzx: Revisiting Doc Springer’s Boulevard of Dreams Many iconic points of interest dot the Mojave Desert stretch of Interstate 15, the busy speedway linking Los Angeles and… Kim Stringfellow
19 Jun 2015 John C. Van Dyke and the Desert Wasteland The weird solitude, the great silence, the grim desolation, are the very things with which every desert wanderer eventually falls… Kim Stringfellow
05 Jun 2015 Packrats and Possum Trot A closer look at the collection habits of humans and other species suggests that we are all purveyors and taxonomists… Kim Stringfellow
02 Mar 2015 Ward Valley: An Extreme and Solemn Relationship This is our land, this is our water, these are our roots. It is sacred to us because it is… Kim Stringfellow
23 Jan 2015 Anyone for hounding rocks? David Eyre (pronounced “air”) prides himself as an agate licker—aka rockhound. Eyre, a fortyish looking man with a serious rockabilly… Kim Stringfellow
05 Jan 2015 Reimagining the Amargosa In hindsight Susan Sorrells did not intend to stay in Shoshone, California. In her late twenties and living in Geneva,… Kim Stringfellow
17 Oct 2014 Land Speeding at El Mirage The fast, flat alkali playas of the western Mojave have beckoned a certain type of individual obsessed with speed and… Kim Stringfellow
31 Jul 2014 Reyner Banham Loves the Mojave British architectural historian/critic Reyner Banham (1922-88) had a thing about the desert—specifically deserts of the American Southwest and in particular,… Kim Stringfellow
