Kenny Rogers stood in the blistering heat of the Southwest desert, and President Reagan participated in front of the White House.

Although observatories in the Southwest deserts and Hawaii have more clear nights, he said, viewing at Hard Labor Creek is just as good at least two-thirds of that time.

James Guilford Swinnerton (November 13, 1875 - September 8, 1974) was an American cartoonist and a landscape painter of the Southwest deserts.

It has directed much traffic into the remote Southwest desert, making more immigrants vulnerable to smugglers and leaving many people dead.

In 2006, Burkard shadowed large format landscape photographer Michael Fatali, whose images of the American Southwest desert are published frequently.

Y'all left Nashville in January 2001 and drove west, across the Southwest desert to California and back for the first time.

Preceding Biberman's move to California, the artist became intrigued by the allure of the Southwest desert.

The vast blankness of the Southwest desert served as a metaphor for the nihilistic violence in his last novel, "Blood Meridian," published in 1985.

Dwellers of the Southwest deserts hunted small animals and gathered acorns to grind into flour with which they baked wafer-thin bread on top of heated stones.

While the rest of the nation baked this summer, the Southwest desert had rain throughout most of August.