- a variation of Mohave.
Mojave
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Mojaves,
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Mojave
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The Cadiz water project, a plan to drain water from the Mojave desert, has been fought by environmentalists for a quarter-century.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
It was July in the Mojave Desert, and the thermometer climbed toward 110 degrees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
On the nearby Mojave South section of the San Andreas fault, modeled stress has reached 2.8 MPa.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Ever since Iraq invaded Kuwait, curious motorists passing through the Mojave Desert have stopped to ask the way to Bagdad, the California ghost town named in the 1800s for the Middle Eastern capital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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
The Mojaves are accustomed to play a similar game which has been described under the name "Hoop and Pole".
From Indian Games : an historical research by Andrew McFarland Davis
Hoffman, as made in Northern Arizona in 1871 by the Apaches, Mojaves, Hualpais, and Seviches.
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 Herbert Eugene Bolton
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