"Desert America is an uninsulated wire running through the hard-bitten, right-now, rough-edged Southwest, a land still being born. Go ahead and grab hold: first comes shock--maybe of recognition, maybe alarm--then you keep buzzing for page after electric page. You can't let go."--William deBuys, author of A Great Aridness and River of Traps
The economic boom--and the devastation left in its wake--was writ nowhere as...