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Rough and Ready: the Little California Town Which Seceded from the Union

by Hailey Brophy
July 1, 2023

Is there anything that quite embodies the pioneering spirit of the United States better than the Gold Rush? In 1848, gold was found in the Sacramento Valley, beginning a series of events in which hundreds of thousands of prospectors and fortune-seekers would flock to the “Wild West” over the next several years in search of […]

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The Salton Sea: How a Desert Resort Became an Abandoned Wasteland

by Hailey Brophy
February 18, 2023

In 1905, a dry lake bed in Southern California called the “Salton Sink” was filled with water once more as the Colorado River surged and newly constructed irrigation canals funneled the entire volume of the river into this low-elevation desert land. The event was an unprecedented once-in-a-lifetime failure in irrigation planning, and the result was […]

Rough and Ready: the Little California Town Which Seceded from the Union

The Salton Sea: How a Desert Resort Became an Abandoned Wasteland

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