A 1920s picture of Rock Springs Land and Cattle Co. cowboys is one of about 108,000 photographs Dennis Casebier has collected. The library also has thousands of maps, oral histories and biographical files. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Dennis Casebier and his wife, Jo-Ann, moved to Goffs, Calif., in 1990, where they have built the Dennis G. Memorial Library, whose goal is to shed light on what he describes as “forgotten country” -- the eastern Mojave Desert, between Barstow and the Colorado River. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
Dennis G. Casebier, 74, has assembled the largest archive of Mojave Desert history. It contains more than 100,000 photos, 6,000 books, 6,000 maps, 1,000 taped oral histories and 3,000 biographical files. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)
