The Progress
By Vernon Robison, The Progress, . An excerpt; the full story is on the paper's site.
There are countless strange and wonderful things to be discovered in the vast desert region surrounding Mesquite and Moapa Valley. Some are well-known and have become destination sites for locals and tourists alike.
But others are more obscure, difficult to find - their stories sometimes lost to history. Many of these have now been newly revealed in a new book: All Around Mesquite, written by local businessman and UTV trail-explorer Dustin Berg.
In an interview last week, Berg said that the 200 page book is a culmination of about three years of traversing the various trails throughout the region, talking to local trails experts and doing extensive research into available historical records.
This is the opening of the story. The story ran with a photo of Dustin Berg and his wife Jessica on the trail at Tri State Monument just north of Mesquite.
The rest of the story covers how the book works as a trail guide (maps and directions that point you to places so you can pin them in your own navigation software), the hidden history Berg kept finding on the back of the Virgin Mountains, his research at the Virgin Valley Heritage Museum, why the book takes in Virgin Valley, Moapa Valley, Lincoln County, the Arizona Strip and southern Utah, and the hard copy release at a signing hosted by Juniper Outpost Boutique on December 21, 2023.
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Mesquite Local News
Mesquite Local News talks with Berg about why he wrote the book, the twelve months of exploring behind it, the challenge of keeping the history factual, and the readers' response.
Read the excerptThe book
What is inside, who it is for, eleven sample pages and the table of contents.
About the bookBuy
Kindle eBook and print edition on Amazon; six shops in Mesquite and Littlefield; signed copies by request.
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