Lone man in a hat walking in the Colorado Desert near Palm Springs, 1903-1904 

Carl Eytel and George Wharton James in a horse-drawn wagon on the Butterfield Stage Road in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903 

Horse-drawn buggy on the sand dunes of the Colorado Desert, ca.1900 

Group of people with a covered wagon and tent at Indian Wells on the Butterfield Stage Line east of Palm Springs and west of Indio, ca.1903-1904 

Chuckwalla (or Chuckawalla) Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1902-1905 

Group of people making camp at Indian Wells on the Butterfield Stage Line, ca.1904 

Three burros used on George Wharton James' and Carl Eytel's Colorado desert trip, showing Van Buskirk ca.1900 

Thousand Palms Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903-1904 

Palms in Chuckwalla (or Chuckawalla) Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903-1904 

Chuckwalla (or Chuckawalla) Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903-1904 

Palm Springs view of Mount Jacinto and Tahquitz Canyon, ca.1898 

Palms in the Colorado Desert, ca.1904 

Mule team and loaded ore wagons at stamp mill, Mojave Desert, ca.1900 

Carl Eytel and Van Buskirk with pack burros on their Colorado River trip with George Wharton James, ca.1900 

Photographers Dr. George Wharton James, Carl Eytel and Van Buskirk, Colorado Desert, ca.1900 

Thousand Palms Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1904 

Edge of the prehistoric Salton Sea at Torres on the Colorado Desert east of Palm Springs, ca.1900-1903 

Desert prospector with two mules and a horse, Mojave Desert, 1890 

Group of twelve palm trees lined across the horizon in the Colorado Desert, northeast of Palm Springs near Indio, ca.1904 

Desert prospector and his pack burro in the desert en route to the Peg Leg Smith Mine, Superstition Mountains, 1904