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Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
- The American West and Its Disappearing Water
- By: Marc Reisner
- Narrated by: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
- Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecologic and economic disaster. In Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants to transform the West.
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Cadillac Desert, Revised and Updated Edition
- The American West and Its Disappearing Water
- Narrated by: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
- Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 03-01-18
- Language: English
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The Great Desert Escape
- How the Flight of 25 German Prisoners of War Sparked One of the Largest Manhunts in American History
- By: Keith Warren Lloyd
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Dramatic, highly listenable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp.The disciplined Germans tunneled unnoticed through rock-hard, sunbaked soil and crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert. They were heading for Mexico, where there were sympathizers who could help them return to their fatherland. It was the only large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in US history.
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The Great Desert Escape
- How the Flight of 25 German Prisoners of War Sparked One of the Largest Manhunts in American History
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 08-10-19
- Language: English
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Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign
- Emerging Civil War Series
- By: Patrick Kelly-Fischer, Phillip S. Greenwalt
- Narrated by: Tim Welch
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In late July 1861, Lieutenant Colonel John Baylor and 258 Texas cavalrymen thundered into the small village of Mesilla, tucked along the Rio Grande River in the New Mexico Territory. They skirmished with U.S. Regulars seeking to retake the town and quickly forced them to retreat. It was a small victory that fueled visions of something much larger.
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Desert Empire: The 1862 New Mexico Campaign
- Emerging Civil War Series
- Narrated by: Tim Welch
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 01-05-26
- Language: English
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Desert Oracle
- Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest
- By: Ken Layne
- Narrated by: Ken Layne
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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This program is read by the author, Ken Layne, host of the Desert Oracle radio show. It includes an exclusive first listen to a story from Desert Oracle: Volume 2. The cult-y field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora...
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Desert Oracle
- Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest
- Narrated by: Ken Layne
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 30-08-22
- Language: English
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High Desert Blood
- The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot and the Tragedy of the Williams Brothers
- By: Andrew Brininstool
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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When a cocksure father hatches a simple insurance fraud scheme, he has no idea its failure will lead his family into the maelstrom of America’s most violent prison riot. High Desert Blood takes you inside the walls of the Penitentiary of New Mexico, offering a gripping true crime journey through the heart of a system that failed its inmates, its staff, and the society it was meant to protect.
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High Desert Blood
- The 1980 New Mexico Prison Riot and the Tragedy of the Williams Brothers
- Narrated by: Michael Puttonen
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 21-07-25
- Language: English
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Netting the Sun
- A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert (Northwest Voices Essays)
- By: Melvin R. Adams
- Narrated by: Nate Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Netting the Sun offers a carefully crafted diversity of natural and human stories from a landscape seemingly empty and forlorn to passing casual travelers. This surprising interpretation of south central Oregon's botany, geology, wildlife, ethnography, and history reveals what a truly special place the high desert is.
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Netting the Sun
- A Personal Geography of the Oregon Desert (Northwest Voices Essays)
- Narrated by: Nate Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 22-09-17
- Language: English
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The Desert Always Wins
- An Irreverent History of Nevada
- By: Jordan Blake Carter
- Narrated by: Jimmy Allen Fuller
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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This is not your high school history. From atomic showgirls and quickie divorces to Burning Man billionaires and desert survivalists, Nevada has built its reputation on contradictions. It is a place where nothing should have thrived and yet everything did, in the most outrageous ways possible. In this book, you’ll meet miners who gambled away fortunes before breakfast, mobsters who turned Vegas into a playground, politicians who looked the other way, and dreamers who set fire to wooden effigies in the desert just to see what would happen.
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The Desert Always Wins
- An Irreverent History of Nevada
- Narrated by: Jimmy Allen Fuller
- Series: Irreverent History
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 22-09-25
- Language: English
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Desert Lawmen
- The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona 1846-1912
- By: Larry D. Ball
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Elected for two-year terms, frontier sheriffs were the principal peace-keepers in counties that were often larger than New England states. As officers of the court, they defended settlers and protected their property from the ever-present violence on the frontier. Their duties ranged from tracking down stagecoach robbers and serving court warrants to locking up drunks and quelling domestic disputes.
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Desert Lawmen
- The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona 1846-1912
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 14-11-14
- Language: English
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Zion in the Desert
- A Not-So-Sanitized History of Utah
- By: Jordan Blake Carter
- Narrated by: Jimmy Allen Fuller
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
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Welcome to Utah, where wagon ruts meet billion-dollar malls, and sacred prophecy collides with PR campaigns. This is not the version you got in seminary. From red rock petroglyphs and Spanish explorers to polygamist raids, forged scriptures, and ski resorts, Zion in the Desert tells the strange, scrappy, and often uncomfortable history of a state that was never just one thing. The book dives headfirst into the contradictions that shaped Utah: faith and resistance, empire and exodus, miracles and cover-ups.
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Zion in the Desert
- A Not-So-Sanitized History of Utah
- Narrated by: Jimmy Allen Fuller
- Series: Irreverent History
- Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 25-08-25
- Language: English
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High Desert Tales
- From the Not so Wild West
- By: Roscoe Wilkes
- Narrated by: Karen Wilkes
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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It was 1927, when Roscoe Wilkes, age nine, along with his parents and sister, coasted into Pioche, NV. They were on their way to Oregon when ther car started knocking on the high road just south of town, and now they were stuck. Persevering through the hardships of the depression and the loss of his father at age 12, Roscoe became the head of the household.
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High Desert Tales
- From the Not so Wild West
- Narrated by: Karen Wilkes
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: English
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Rivers in the Desert
- William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
- By: Margaret Leslie Davis
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi. He sought to transform the sparse and barren desert into an inhabitable environment by designing the longest aqueduct in the Western Hemisphere, bringing water from the mountains to support a large city. This "fascinating history" chronicles Mulholland's dramatic ascension to wealth and fame - followed by his tragic downfall after the sudden collapse of the dam he had constructed.
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Rivers in the Desert
- William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 28-12-21
- Language: English
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Northern Paiutes of the Malheur
- High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country
- By: David H. Wilson
- Narrated by: John Burlinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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In 1870, a 26-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land. The eloquence of her letter was such that it made its way into Harper’s Weekly. Ten years later, as her people languished in confinement as a result of the Bannock War, she convinced Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz to grant the requests in her letter and free the Paiutes as well.
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Northern Paiutes of the Malheur
- High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country
- Narrated by: John Burlinson
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-02-23
- Language: English
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