Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West Utah Energy Landscape and California

and California

and sno-parks

Great Salt Lake has played a surprisingly central role in the lives of humans and animals throughout the American West and across entire continents

full-color photography

ranging from individual homes to more substantial commercial and civic buildings

Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West Utah Energy Landscape and CaliforniaKathryn Wilder's powerful story of grief, motherhood, and return to the desert entwines with the story of America's mustangs as Wilder makes a home on the Colorado Plateau, her property bordering a mustang herd. Desert Chrome illuminates these controversial creaturestheir complex history in the Americas, their powerful presence on the landscape, and ways to help both horses and habitats stay wild in the arid Westand celebrates the animal nature in us