Great God Pan: Salt Desert Tales

Vast expanses of Utah — its entire northwest quadrant, specifically – are barren, waterless, windblown, salt-caked, too hot or too cold, God-forsaken and just generally unfit for human habitation. If not for the advent of rocket bombs, toxic waste, and casinos, this desert of Deseret might still be left to the coyotes. It’s a land so vast, unpopulated and far-removed that the most you’ll hear about it is from a book like this one.