Arid Gallery

Four Peaks Wilderness in the mountains of central Arizona

Four Peaks Wilderness, viewed from the Dutchman's Trail in the Superstition Mountains Wilderness Area, Arizona.
Digital photograph

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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca crossing the Great American Desert from Texas to Mexico, early 1500s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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