Destinations
The places the book covers, region by region: Mesquite and the Virgin Valley, Moapa Valley, Lincoln County, the Arizona Strip and southern Utah. A few pages are up now and more are coming, each built only from what the book and the press already say about the place.
The region
The book's trails and destinations section is organized by region: Mesquite, Moapa Valley, Lincoln County, the Arizona Strip and Southern Utah, each with its downtown destinations and historical markers and its trails and scenic destinations. Berg told The Progress he quickly realized that approaching the subject from just a Mesquite perspective would only brush a small part of the story.
"I wanted a comprehensive book on the whole area, because there is a lot of amazing stuff that has happened in this area. This is really a strange, dynamic part of the world right here."
From the book's fact sheet: Mesquite sits in Clark County, the most populous county in Nevada, next to Mohave County, Arizona, the fifth largest county in the United States by area; you can stand in three states and three time zones within a 30-minute drive of the city; and six state and national parks are within a three-hour drive.
Places
Three pages are up. The rest are planned; the card tells you what the book says about the place and where the source is.
The marker where the corners of Nevada, Arizona and Utah come together, just north of Mesquite, and the place that gives the Tri-State area its name.
Where Berg found an abandoned rock cabin after driving past the spot dozens of times: the hidden history the book was written to point out.
The City of Mesquite's museum, the research stop behind much of the book's history, and the first name in its acknowledgments.
The book gives it two chapters, "Gold Butte: A Geological Marvel in the Southwest" and "The Wild Burros of Gold Butte: Mesquite's Silent Builders", and the area guide map marks 33 points of interest around it, Whitney Pocket, Little Finland and Devil's Throat among them.
Two chapters in the book's first historical part, "Echoes of Ancient: The Lost City" and "St. Thomas: A Journey Through Time"; the map marks St Thomas Ghost Town, and the Lost City Museum is on the resources page.
Settled in 1877 according to the book's timeline, with its own chapters: "A Line in the Sand: Bunkerville & the Struggle for Sovereignty" and "Mesquite Amidst the Mushroom Clouds: Echoes from Bunkerville's Past".
From the fact sheet: just 30 miles south of the city, it once held not only 500 ostriches but a real-life alligator in the desert.
Region C of the book's trails and destinations section (from page 130). The map reaches up to Caliente and marks Pine Canyon Dam, the Elgin Schoolhouse and the Walter Ray Memorial.
Region D in the book (from page 137): 3.2 million acres north of the Grand Canyon, cut off from the rest of Arizona, per the fact sheet. The map marks Toroweap Overlook, Mount Trumbull's historic schoolhouse, Grand Gulch Mine and more.
Region E in the book (from page 152). The map covers St. George, Hurricane and Washington, the Red Cliffs and Beaver Dam Wash national conservation areas and the trails between them.
Antonio Armijo passed through Mesquite in 1829, establishing the Old Spanish Trail, says the book's timeline; the chapter is "Mesquite's Link to Treasure & the Old Spanish Trail".
