Free Download Deanne Stillman, "Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History"
English | 2012 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1568586086, 1568588631 | EPUB | 3,4 mb
North of Los Angeles – the studios, the beaches, Rodeo Drive – lies a sparsely populated region that comprises fully one half of Los Angeles County. Sprawling across 2200 miles, this shadow side of Los Angeles is in the high Mojave Desert. Known as the Antelope Valley, it’s a terrain of savage dignity, a vast amphitheatre of startling wonders that put on a show as the megalopolis burrows northward into the region’s last frontier. Ranchers, cowboys, dreamers, dropouts, bikers, hikers, and felons have settled here – those who have chosen solitude over the trappings of contemporary life or simply have nowhere else to go. But in recent years their lives have been encroached upon by the creeping spread of subdivisions, funded by the once easy money of subprime America. McMansions – many empty now – gradually replaced Joshua trees; the desert – America’s escape hatch – began to vanish as it became home to a latter-day exodus of pilgrims.
