The Colorado Desert of southeastern California was not always a seemingly barren wilderness.

It was Blake who first named this region the Colorado Desert.

But no - most visitors to this mountainous corner of the Colorado Desert come for something far more fundamental: sunshine.

Blake first named this region the Colorado Desert.

He often walked on his travels, covering 400 miles in the Colorado Desert on foot.

The Colorado Desert's climate distinguishes it from other deserts.

In 1854 he disappeared while traveling from San Diego across the Colorado Desert.

From the Colorado Desert to somewhere over the Pacific on the east-west axis.

The trees were thought not to exist in the Colorado Desert until a full-fledged hunt was launched in 1937.

The first field expedition for the new museum was to the Colorado Desert in April 1908.