Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Going Home

Introduction

Part One: GEOGRAPHY
1. The High Desert
2. Long Lake
3. Metaphors
4. The Geography of Names
5. Blank Spots on a Map

Part Two: ORIGINS AND ELEMENTS
6. Horst, Graben, and Asteroid
7. Lake Abert: The Inland Sea
8. Halophytes and Xerophytes
9. Atmospheric
10. Sunstones
11. Netting the Sun
12. A Star Explodes
13. The Stone Bridge

Part Three: REMNANTS
14. Aspen
15. Pronghorn
16. Redband
17. Semaphore Grass
18. The Animal Wars
19. The Lost Forest

Part Four: NATIVES
20. Goose Lake
21. The Achomawi
22. The Groundhog Eaters

Part Five: IMMIGRANTS
23. Death of an Explorer
24. Starved Out
25. Shirk Ranch
26. The Sheep Bridge
27. Ahab and the Cowboys
28. Graves
29. Dr. Daly

Part Six: HISTORY
30. Boat on a Dry Lake
31. Lakeview After the Fire
32. The Depot
33. Wigwams and Pond Monkeys
34. The Balloon War
35. Naming the Desert

Epilogue: Leaving Home

Bibliography

About the Author

About the Author

Melvin R. Adams resides at Richland in central Washington's arid Columbia Basin.

Reviews

"[The Oregon desert] is a landscape with stories unique to our part of the West. The efforts of the author are a welcome addition to the fairly meager body of literature on [our region]."--Robert Boyd, High Desert Museum