Beams of light from the headlamps bore holes through the cave's blackness. Ahead of photographer Darryl Bush and me, our two young scouts scrambled through a narrow passageway on hands and knees, then ...

As I stood alone on Hospital Rock at Lava Beds National Monument, the wind whipping my hair around as the rain persisted from the west, I was struck with both a sense of awe at the sight of the land ...

There is far more to Northern California’s Lava Beds National Monument than its remarkable geological formations and lava tubes. For example, it is the site of the Modoc War, the only Indian war in ...

It was the only major Native American war fought in California and it gripped the nation’s attention almost 150 years ago as a band of warriors held off a much larger force of the U.S. Army in a harsh ...

The West has national monuments based on volcanoes in Oregon (Newberry Crater), Washington (Mount St. Helens), Idaho (Craters of the Moon) and California (Lava Beds). Lava Beds National Monument is ...

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