Desert Summits covers Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, Mojave National Preserve, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Red Rock National Conservation Area, Lake Mead and Spring Mountains National Recreation Areas, Desert National Wildlife Refuge, the White-Inyo Range, and the peaks surrounding Las Vegas, Nevada including: 
The Excelsior Mountains, Gold Butte area, Sweetwater Mountains, Bodie Hills, Mormon Mountains, Eldorado Mountains, Sliver Peak Range, Cady Mountains, and Providence Mountains. 
Obscure mountains include: Sleeping Beauty Mountain, Coffin Peak, Scattered Bone Peak, Saline Peak, Last Chance Mountain, Devil Peak, Corkscrew, Gold Butte, Muddy Mountains, Hamblin Mountain, Frenchman Mountain, Van Winkle Mountain (Providence), Tortoise Shell Mountain (Woods Mountains), and Old Woman Mountain.

Desert Summits : A Climbing & Hiking Guide to California and Southern Nevada

Travel

Zdon, Andy

Specialty Travel

Spotted Dog Pr Inc

It was 1943. In Yosemite National Park, the magnificent Ahwahnee Hotel closed its doors to tourists, transformed into a temporary Naval convalescent hospital. Wartime shortages forced the rationing of gasoline, sugar, and film. Living with his wife, Virginia Best Adams and their children in Yosemite Valley, Ansel Adams, sought ways to help with the war effort. Too old to enlist, he volunteered for a number of assignments in which his photographic skills were put to the country's use. Among his contributions, he both escorted and photographed Army troops at Yosemite training for mountain warfare in Europe; he taught photography to the Signal Corps at Fort Ord, and traveled to the Presidio in San Francisco to print classified photographs of Japanese military installations on the Aleutian Islands. Despite his volunteer efforts, he was frustrated that he could not do more to help the war effort.That summer, friend Ralph Merritt asked Adams if he would be interested in creating a photographic record of a little-known government facility in the Owens Valley, on the east side of the Sierra Nevada. "I cannot pay you a cent," Merritt told Adams, "but I can put you up and feed you." Merritt was director of the Manzanar War Relocation Center, a collection of hundreds of tar-paper barracks hastily built to house more than 10,000 people, behind barbed wire and gun towers. All were of Japanese Ancestry, but most were American citizens, forcibly removed from their homes to ten relocation centers across the country by presidential order. The resulting effort was the book Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal Japanese Americans published by U.S. Camera in 1944 under the direction of the War Relocation Authority. While at Manzanar, Adams met Toyo Miyatake, the official camp photographer, interned with his wife and children. A student of the great photographer, Edward Weston, Miyatake had established his own respected professional photography studio in Los Angeles before the war. In the introduction to this book, MiyatakeÕs son, Archie, who was then 16-years old, recalls the visit made so long ago. In 1965, Adams wrote in a letter to Dr. Edgar Brietenbach at the Library of Congress: " . . . I think this Manzanar Collection is an important historical document and I trust it can be put to good use. . . "   In the autumn of 2000, before the Manzanar photographs of Ansel Adams were available digitally and only available as 8x10 photographic reproductions, editor Wynne Benti spent two weeks in the collections of the Library of Congress and NARA, locating many, but not all of the photographs that appeared in the original book. The book went to press as two jets crashed into the World Trade Center, thus the addition of the American flag behind the cover photograph of Joyce Nakamura Okazaki. Spotted Dog Press republished Adams' work, Born Free and Equal, introducing it to new generations of Americans.

Born Free and Equal: The Manzanar Photographs of Ansel Adams, from the Library of Congress Collection

History

Benti, Wynne

ADAMS, Ansel

Military

Favorite Dog Hikes In And Around Las Vegas is the guide to over 100 of our favorite dog-friendly dayhikes and walks. ThereÕs something here for everyone: Calico Basin, Cold Creek, Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Spring MountainsÐKyle Canyon, Deer Creek, Harris Road, Lee CanyonÐ Goodsprings Mining District, Lake Mead NRA, Mountain Springs, Red Rock NCA, Spring Mountain Ranch, Valley of Fire, off-leash dog parks and a pattern for making your own dog hiking boots! Included are driving instructions, K9 water, trail descriptions with mileages and estimated round-trip completion times, difficulty ratings, on-leash or off-leash designations and more!

Favorite Dog Hikes in And Around Las Vegas

Wynne Benti, Megan Lawlor

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