Sierra East - Edge of the Great Basin - California Natural History Guides No. 60 Laman Captioned photographs

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state government officials

and in other ways imposed on their hospitality

He introduces us to a gallery of rogues and dreamers who saw a great future for this arid wilderness but could never refrain from interference with the forces of nature

Sierra East - Edge of the Great Basin - California Natural History Guides No. 60 Laman Captioned photographsThe Eastern Sierra is a dramatic, unusual, mountain and desert region in eastern California and western Nevada that includes two famous resorts, Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes. It is a world apart from the lands west of the Sierra Nevada, and the contributors to this lavishly illustrated natural history provide a marvelous introduction to the wonderland that makes up the Eastern Sierra. As the eastern slope of the 400 mile long Sierra Nevada merges with