Salton Sea: California's Overlooked Treasure (The Periscope)

Description: The Salton Sea, and its curious development, have long been a subject of interest. Take a journey to the Salton Sea and learn about its early history. Join the explorers who searched the Salton Sink looking for the lost ships of the desert, the entrepreneur at the salt works who gained and then lost a fortune, the surveyors and engineers who envisioned a lush desert oasis, and the railroad tycoons who sought to traverse the desolate desert. These and many more stories are merely a prelude to the most recent creation of the Salton Sea. The runaway Colorado River covered the farms of the Imperial Valley beginning in the summer of 1904 until the unbelievable floods during the winter of 1905 filled the Salton Sink. The Salton Sea had been reborn. Part ll features the lives of many colorful characters like Captain Davis, the Monarch of Mullet Island, with its hissing and gurgling of mudpots and geysers. Tour the resorts from Gus Eilers’ Date Palm Beach to North Shore Beach and the Yacht Club designed by Albert Frey, to Helen’s Beach House, where you could dance and drink the night away. You could fill your dreams with speedboat records set on the Sea, the bikini-clad championship waterskiers, and the fishing opportunities in the vast inland Sea. Testing at the Salton Sea Base included space capsule parachutes, drone airplanes, and Nike missiles. This 3rd edition of the Salton Sea: California’s Overlooked Treasure reprinted the 1995 and 1999 editions. If you are looking for descriptions of the recent trials and tribulations of the Salton Sea, you will not find them here. Go instead to the plethora of media outlets covering the multitudes of costly plans that continually fail to save the present-day Salton Sea. In this publication, you will find the early history of the Salton Sea.

Price: 14.81 USD

Location: Prescott, Arizona

End Time: 2024-09-27T04:10:10.000Z

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