- a variation of Mohave.
Mojave
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They live at the far side of the Mojave Desert where California meets Nevada.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
“It’s a little bit semantic sometimes, like I know some people consider Ridgecrest a doublet, and some people don’t,” Lozos said, referring to the 2019 earthquake sequence that shook up L.A. from the Mojave Desert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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
After we pulled up stakes in San Francisco, we headed for the Mojave Desert.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
Hoffman, as made in Northern Arizona in 1871 by the Apaches, Mojaves, Hualpais, and Seviches.
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)
Another thing that amused the boys was a balsa, or raft, made by the Mojaves, of the cane-grass which grew in the river-bottoms to the height of fifteen feet.
From Captured by the Navajos by Curtis, Charles A. (Charles Albert)
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