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"We're Getting Out of L.A. and Going to Joshua Tree": Why the Desert Area Is Booming

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During the golden age of Westerns, film crews would often make the two-and-a-half-hour trip to the Morongo Basin in San Bernardino County to shoot in the pristine, rugged desert.

In 1946, actor Dick Curtis decided to monetize the location and banded with movie cowboys Gene Autry and Roy Rogers to create a wild West film location and settlement that they named Pioneertown.

The real cowboys already living in the area (north of what is now Joshua Tree National Park) weren't too pleased. "Back when Pioneertown Corporation was hauling in potential land buyers and weekend tourists from Los Angeles, they set up a little ambush just as the buses got into town.

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