- a variation of Mohave.
Mojave
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The California company Cadiz has been trying for years to pipe water out of the Mojave Desert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Chairman Timothy Williams of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe said the company’s plan “to pump and sell 25 times more groundwater each year than the aquifer can replenish would desecrate our traditional territories.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The neighboring Mojave South section of the San Andreas Fault currently stands at 2.8 MPa.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 18, 2026
The spaceship traveled a little more than 62 miles above California’s Mojave Desert, as thousands of people watched from the ground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Someone said it was named the Mojave Desert.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
Avi Kwa Ame, for the Fort Mojaves, is not a recreational place.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
Perhaps we, too, are mosses, evolving to the parch of our self-made Mojaves.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022
From there he continued through Téjon Pass into the San Joaquin Valley, descended it to the Tulare region, emerged through an eastern pass, probably the Tehachapi, and recrossed the desert to the Mojaves.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
The only Indians we had seen up to that time were the peaceful tribes of the Yumas, Cocopahs and Mojaves, who lived along the Colorado.
From Vanished Arizona by Summerhayes, Martha
The Mojaves, whose village was five miles above La Paz, came down on freshly made balsas every day, but walked home, carrying their paddles.
From Captured by the Navajos by Curtis, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
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