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Historical Highlight: An ownership battle for a meteorite
It’s been 48 years since three miners discovered something much more than gold in Old Woman Mountains near Cadiz. In…
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Historical Highlight: A desert airport becomes Landers, California
Landers lies on the northern edge of our Morongo Basin. The small community began as a remote airstrip in the…
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Historical Highlight: The Heroes of Desert Storm
Over the years, many films have been shot here in the Morongo Basin, including a featured “ABC Movie of the…
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Historical Highlight: The day they burned down the Joshua Tree Fire Station
On April 23, 1994, passersby in the Village of Joshua Tree watched as firefighters burned down the Joshua Tree fire…
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Historical Highlight: The Lady From 29 Palms
An iconic song about Twentynine Palms was written in the city in 1947 and recorded by national artists, including the…
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HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHT: OASIS OF MARA MURAL
Anyone who drives down Highway 62 or Adobe Road in Twentynine Palms will see mural after mural. Some are old,…
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Historical Highlight: Shootout at the Wall Street Mill
Years ago in what is now Joshua Tree National Park, the Wild West was alive and well. Stories of cattle…
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Historical Highlight: The Morongo Basin Pipeline
Turn on the tap now and you’ll have plenty of fresh water, but it wasn’t always that way. Water is…
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Historical Highlight: Pioneer Bill McHaney, a legend in his own time
Bill McHaney is one of the earliest residents of Twentynine Palms. He was a gold miner, cattleman, and Twentynine Palms…
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HISTORY OF JOSHUA TREE, PART 2 OF 2
Part 1 can be found here: https://z1077fm.com/historical-highlight-the-history-of-joshua-tree-part-1/ In the heart of the Morongo Basin, nestled between the City of Twentynine…
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HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHT: THE HISTORY OF JOSHUA TREE PART 1
In the heart of the Morongo Basin, nestled between the City of Twentynine Palms and the Town of Yucca Valley,…
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Historical Highlight: Cattle Rustlers and Ranchers of the Morongo Basin
Cattle rustling and ranching were big business in the Morongo Basin from the 1800s to the mid 1900s, and some…
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HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHT: FRIENDS OF COPPER MOUNTAIN COLLEGE TURN A DREAM INTO REALITY: PART 2
In part 1 of our story on the Friends of Copper Mountain College, we reviewed the fundraising efforts of the…
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FRIENDS OF COPPER MOUNTAIN COLLEGE TURN A DREAM INTO REALITY, PART 1 OF 2
Copper Mountain College in Joshua Tree has provided students of the Morongo Basin with higher education since 1984, but it…
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WE LOOK BACK AT MAJOR FIRES IN JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK
In this year of some of the worst fires ever in California history, we take a look back, in this…
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Historical Highlight: The Origins of Pioneertown
Folklore has it that Pioneertown was started by Gene Autry in the 1940s, The Hi-Desert Magazine has a different origin…
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Historical Highlight: Copper Mountain Lake goes down the drain
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors had a plan to create a…
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