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THE TOHONO O'ODHAM INDIANS This website relates the story of this tribe that chooses to make its home in the desert.
THE BLYTHE MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE'S HOMEPAGE Have a look at this challenging course overlooking Blythe and the Colorado River.
THE BLYTHE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION Offers an in depth look at the demographics and other economic factors of this
area.
THE CRIT LIBRARY The Colorado River Indian Tribes Library website has information about the four tribes that comprise CRIT.
There is also an explanation of the CRIT Great Seal and flag.
BOOKS FOR SAGEBRUSH SCIENTISTS AND DESERT RATS This website offers a pretty good desert bibliography.
PICACHO STATE PARK All you need to know about spending a great weekend viewing wildlife at this remote park about forty miles
down river from Blythe.
TAKE HOME A BOOR SITE Here's a website with a sense of humor about a very serious subject. How to clean up after the boors
that come to our desert only to litter it with their trash and garbage. Moral: When you leave, leave only your tracks.
KNOWING THE DESERT TAKES TIME AND PATIENCE This website encourages the acquisition of a little knowledge before venturing
into the desert, for both the venturer's and the desert's safety.
THE HAVASUPAI AND THE HUALAPAI Here's the story of these two groups of Native Americans that inhabit the deserts close to
Blythe.
WHY THE COLORADO DOESN'T MEET THE SEA This is an article on the author's views about Colorado River water wastage.
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THE LIVING DESERT Here's an essay on the plants and animals of the southwest desert.
COCHISE & GERONIMO This website offers brief essays on these Native American leaders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
COYOTE! GOD'S DOG A short article describing the life and times of this desert canine.
SOUTHWEST JEWISH ARCHIVES If you're interested in the Jewish contribution to the development of the west, this site will give
you access to materials you'll want.
A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CAHUILLA This is a short history of the Cahuilla Tribe that occupies the desert a short distance
from Blythe.
RICE ARMY AIR FIELD Tells of this military installation that existed during World War II about forty-five dirt road miles
northwest of Blythe.
PICTURESQUE ARIZONA An autobiographical book about an early trip through the Territory Of Arizona. It's really quite good.
THE POSTON, ARIZONA RECLOCATION CENTER Here's a history of the huge internment camp twenty-two miles north of Blythe. Click
on the pictures to continue through the website.
WHO GOES THERE? It's a book review, but it's also a pretty good article relating to desert tracking.
THE MULTICULTURAL AMERICAN WEST: A RESOURCE SITE From this website you can access information on various ethnic and gender
groups' roles in developing the American West.
PATHFINDERS FOR HEALTH Here's the story of these native americans assisting in diabetes research.
CAMP YOUNG This is a history of Patton's desert headquarters located between Blythe and Indio during World War II.
EARLY USES OF INDIAN TOBACCO IN CALIFORNIA If you're the one that's curious about what native americans in the California
Desert smoked and what they smoked it in, this is the website for you.
MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF CALIFORNIA AND THE OLD SOUTHWEST This online book is filled with ancient Native American stories and
legends.
DESERT LORE If you're a desert lorist wanna be this website is for you! It's about metal working, glass blowing, healing,
and any other arcane desert subject you can think of.
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FOUR DIRECTIONS INSTITUTE This website explains the Chemehuevi, a tribe of native americans close to Blythe and the Palo Verde
Valley.
DESERT DOCUMENTARY: THE SPANISH YEARS 1767-1821 Here's a website offering an online book with an early history of the desert
southwest.
LOST LAKE RESORT This website offers basic information about this charming river resort about thirty-five miles north of Blythe
on US Highway 95.
THE COLORADO RIVER-LIFELINE OF THE SOUTHWEST The river's inpact on the history and culture of the desert area.
QUARTZSITE AREA ATTRACTIONS Here's a great list of what to see and do near Quartzsite, a small city about twenty-five miles
east of Blythe.
COLORADO RIVER ESSAY Did the Colorado River help or hinder the development of the west?
ESTEVANICO DISCOVERER OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO AND PIONEER EXPLORER OF THE SOUTHWEST. Here's a history of this very early
(d1540) black explorer that was instrumental in the founding of several states.
TO PRESERVE THEIR HEALTH AND HERITAGE, ARIZONA INDIANS RECLAIM ANCIENT FOODS The use of ancient native desert foods' effect
on modern native american health.
SELECTED IMAGES FROM THE SOUTHWEST JEWISH ARCHIVES This site features a slideshow of forty images focusing on the Jewish heritage
of the southwest desert area.
THE US ARMY CAMEL CORPS This website is dedicated to the Camel Corps which existed briefly in the mid 1800s. Camel sightings
have occurred in Western Arizona as recently as thirty years ago.
ROCK ART: CALL WAITING FROM DATE 2000 BC An article about the various types of these native american art forms.
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THE PALEO INDIANS Here's the story of the really early native americans ?-6500 BC.
JOURNAL OF THE SOUTHWEST This is a compilation of various issues of a publication focusing on the desert southwest.
LAKE HAVASU This website tells of the lake created by the construction of Parker Dam upriver from Blythe.
ENJOY LAUGHLIN Laughlin, Nevada's Website promotes this new resort that many say will grow larger than Las Vegas. Laughlin
is less than a two hour drive upriver from Blythe.
DEFINING SOUTHWEST PERSPECTIVES Here's a gathering of great links to websites explaining different aspects of the desert southwest.
THE SOUTHWEST CULTURE Written for those in their early teens, here's the story of southwest Native American culture.
IRONWOOD FOREST NATIONAL MONUMENT Here's information on one of the country's newest national monuments located a day trip
from Blythe.
THE REAL GOLD OF THE SONORAN DESERT This website advocates the further protection and conservation of the Superstition Wilderness
Area.
NATIVE AMERICAN DESERT PEOPLES This webpage offers a brief history of the background and culture of the modern Native American
tribes dwelling in the southwest desert.
LAKE MOJAVE This lake was created by Davis Dam's construction, and is about a mile north of Laughlin, Nevada.
GUIDE TO LIFE AND LITERATURE OF THE SOUTHWEST Here's an online book whose title says it all.
THE MOJAVE PRESERVE From The National Park Service, here's much about The Mojave Indian Tribe.
TALES TOOLS TELL This website tells of ancient american tools found in a still secret location in the nearby desert. Who is
the secret being kept from? The National ParkService, that's who.
RON KILBER'S LOG BOOK: GEOGLYPHS OF THE SOUTHWEST DESERT This is about a pilot's one day flight expedition to some of the
many intaglios around Blythe. Really a great site.
THE KIWANIS CLUB OF BLYTHE Here's a link to this hard working local service club.
COLLECT WATER IN A SOLAR STILL This website could save your life . . . it probably won't, but it could!
ALL FEATURES OF SOUTHWEST DESERT This website focuses on technology factors/issues for the Southwest Desert Region as a whole.
BUFFALO SOLDIERS This website offers a brief history of the black cavalry units that protcted Arizona pioneers and struggled
with the Native Americans during the late nineteenth century.
A BRIEF HISTORY This is a summary of the Native American peoples that lived and still live along the shores of the Colorado
River.
WESTERN ARIZONA This area, across the Colorado River, from Blythe is described in this website.
SAND DUNES Here is the story on how sand dunes form, grow, and move.
IN SEARCH OF AZTLAN This website proposes that Aztlan, the home of the proto-aztecs, was the Lower Colorado River Valleys,
an idea with growing support.
WOMEN IN ARIZONA HISTORY The story of the gentler gender in not so gentle times.
PARKER AND THE PARKER STRIP This resort area is just upriver from Blythe. The town and the strip between Parker and Parker
Dam are described in this website.
DESERT GEOLOGIC FEATURES This is a very frief description of the various types of geomorphology this desert area offers.
THE LAW OF THE RIVER This website briefly describes, with links, the controversial body of laws governing water distribution
from the Colorado River.
ROBSON'S MINING WORLD AGUILA, ARIZONA This website will acquaint viewers with one of the best kept secrets in Arizona. This
well preserved ghost town near off the beaten track Aguila, less than two hours from Blythe. It's well worth the trip!
CALIFORNIA'S GRAND DESERTS Meet the unique plants and animals of the California Desert Conservation Area.
SHARING COLORADO RIVER WATER: HISTORY, PUBLIC POLICY AND THE COLORADO RIVER COMPACT This is a background article explaining
the many problems caused by, and the fierce competition for, the river's water.
YUMA Here's a brief history of, what is possibly, the oldest city in the United States. Very interesting.
SOJOURNERS AND SETTLERS-THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE IN ARIZONA An excellent essay relating the Chinese influence on the development
of Arizona.
MOJAVE HISTORY.COM This website offers some excellent links relating to Mojave Desert History.
INDIAN USES OF DESERT PLANTS Whether for food, medicine, rituals, or shelter, the Native Americans had a multitude of uses
for desert vegetation. Here are a few.
BOTTA'S POCKET GOPHER Here's a website dedicated to this rodent that through burrowing into irrigation canal banks cost local
taxpayers a fortune each year.
THE RACE AGAINST EXTINCTION-BIODIVRSITY AND ENDANGERED SPECIES A summary of endangered species, many of which are found right
here in the Desert Southwest.
SOUTHWEST JEWISH HISTORY-THE CRYPTO JEWS: AN ANCIENT HERITAGE COMES ALIVE AGAIN This website tells of what could be described
as a modern diaspora.
THE GRAY FOX What's the only canine that can climb trees? This website will tell you all about it.
A CITIZEN'S PROPOSAL This site urges the creation of a new national park that would comprise much of the Sonoran Desert.
PEOPLE OF THE MOJAVE DESERT From earliest times to our modern society, the history, albeit brief, of the Mojave Desert Native
Americans is here.
I STOOD AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD Here's a site telling of Felicity, California, about eighty miles south of Blythe. They
claim to be the center of the world, but fail to say how they determine the center of the surface of an oblate sphere such
as Earth. They do, however, have their own pyramid. Well, it takes all kinds.
PIONEER OF THE MOJAVE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AARON G. LANE This site tells of an early Mojave Desert settler and pioneer.
THE RECLUSE SPIDER Here's an article on this poisonous species of spider found throughout the desert southwest.
DAVIS DAM Up river from Blythe, this dam created Lake Mojave.
THE REAL MCCOY This is the story of Bill Mccoy, a valley pioneer that just about did everything, including losing a pile of
gold. McCoy Wash, and the McCoy Mountains near Blythe, are named for him. It's well worth reading.
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HARD CORPS This website offers the story of the short lived United States Army Camel Corps. There have been camel sightings
on the Arizona side of the river since I've lived in Blythe.
TARANTULAS This website explains the tarantula spider. Normally harmless to humans, many have them as pets . . . but not me.
GHOST TOWN GALLERY This website offers over 1300 pix from 174 ghostowns, many in California, Arizona, and Nevada, just a day
trip from Blythe.
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THE COMMON KINGSNAKE This website has the story about this, harmless to humans, reptile.
SHEMA ARIZONA Sixty-three oral histories conducted by the Arizona Jewish Historical Society gives insight into the experience
of early twentieth century Jewish pioneers in Arizona.
ARIZONA CACTUS AND SUCCULENT RESEARCH This is about native american use of desert vegetation in medical treatment.
A HISTORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN ARIZONA Here see a timeline illustrating black history in Arizona.
FROM THE BEGINNING-ASIAN AMERICANS IN ARIZONA An ethnic history of this group from earliest Arizona to the present.
BARRY GOLDWATER A brief online biography of this 1964 presidential candidate whose family were early merchants in Ehrenberg,
just across the river from Blythe.
PALO VERDE This one page site offers information on and a few pictures of the picturesque little village of Palo Verde about
twenty-four miles southwest of Blythe on State Highway 78.
THE BLYTHE ROTARY CLUB This is a link to Blythe's largest service club.
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Thanks for exploring my wildlife photo and link pages. If you should find an inoperative link, there's an email icon below.
Please let me know. I check them continuously, but there are an awful lot of links on this site. Now its time to move to
a page of historical photographs from around Blythe and the Palo Verde Valley. The site navigator is at the top of this page.
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