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The Desert Speaks
The Gadsden Purchase, Part 2
Season 19
Episode 1902
Beginning at the San Pedro River and heading west, journey through some of natural wonders that would not be part of the United States if it hadn't been for the Gadsden Purchase. The crew travels through the hard-core desert of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, and visit the historic desert oasis, Quitobaquito Springs before finishing off their trip at the Colorado River near Yuma.
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Host David Yetman takes a trip to the pueblos of the Sierra Madre.
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Host David Yetman and his brother take a geological road trip to Utah’s Colorado Plateau.
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Host David Yetman travels to track jaguar movements through Eastern Sonora Mexico.
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Travel around the Puna, the high-elevation plains of Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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We trace the Atacama Desert Trade route from the Pacific coast to the Chilean Andes.
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In Chile’s Atacama Desert people have lived for thousands of years in a land without rain.