When John Wesley Powell and the five remaining members of his crew, who had struggled through the canyons of the Green and Colorado rivers, finally exited the Grand Canyon at the end of August, 1869, ...

It launched a new era that would completely transform the Southwest, but the dedication of Hoover Dam didn't change what was about to happen to St. Thomas. The fate of the Moapa Valley town was ...

Eighty years after being flooded by the waters of Lake Mead, an old Wild West town has become a major tourist attraction after revealing itself again thanks to the ongoing drought. The town of St.

The National Park Service is seeking photographs and stories of a Clark County town famously swallowed by Lake Mead more than 75 years ago following the completion of Hoover Dam. Staff members at Lake ...

I've been eying a trip to St. Thomas for quite some time. Not the island in the Caribbean, although I wouldn't mind a trip there either, but the ghost town that, for much of the past century, lay ...

In some ghost towns, you have to rev up your imagination to picture what life was like in the old days. Not so at St. Thomas, Nev., in the northern reach of Lake Mead National Recreation Area.

The remains of a building seen through the tamarisk that has grown over the site of the lost town of St. Thomas, Nevada. The town was covered by the waters of Lake Mead in the 1930s, but has been ...

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