Gold and Silver in the Mojave - Images of a Last Frontier Flowers rocks on the west side

rocks on the west side of the San Andreas Fault have moved northward nearly 200 miles in the last 20 million years

Baker and Blythe

Unraveling these events reveals a geologically quiet continent that got scrambled in a long and grinding collision with the Pacific crustal plate

Phil Brigandi

Ecologically and environmentally diverse

Gold and Silver in the Mojave - Images of a Last Frontier Flowers rocks on the west sideIt is widely held that the Old West, wild and wooly, ceased to exist by 1890, when the U. S. Census concluded: There can hardly be said to be a frontier line. But there was: an irregular line looping through eastern California and Nevada, and encompassing the better part of the Mojave Desert. It was there that in 1895, a hapless prospector idly hammered a rock from an outcrop. It was filigreed with gold. A rush was on to Randsburg in 1898, then to