But, the arrest was less surprising to others who had watched him build his power and reputation in Cochise County, a region of sweeping desert vistas that borders Mexico and New Mexico.
There is an acoustically tuned stage designed for orchestras and Broadway shows, a warren of grand chambers with inlaid wood and sweeping desert views, and Art Deco touches meant to recall the last ambitious engineering feat in the Nevada desert — the Hoover Dam.
From sweeping desert vistas to staggering mountain views, California contains some of the most insanely beautiful sights in America.
The boat-like appearance is furthered in the living room, where three walls of floor-to-ceiling glass form a "bridge" for taking in sweeping desert landscapes and mountain views.
The festival was set on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, home of the Paiute Tribe, and offered sweeping desert views, staggering rock formations and buttes and the shimmering blue Pyramid Lake--a mirage in a desert of white.
Also for sale is O'Keeffe's "Antelope," a 1964 example of her bone motif, featuring an antelope skull against a broadly sweeping desert.
The trailer opens with a sweeping desert landscape, with a voice saying: "There has been an awakening, have you felt it?", before British star John Boyega appears wearing a Stormtrooper uniform.
The film with which it will undoubtedly be compared is David Lean's 1962 masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia, which features some of the same characters and dramatises similar historical moments – comparisons which Queen of the Desert invites from the get-go with its sweeping desert cinematography.
The veterans were touched in many ways from the sweeping desert vistas and by connecting with the military tradition of Camp Iron Mountain.
Picture white domed mosques, candy cane minarets and sweeping romantic deserts; it is the essence of Arabia, from camel racing at dawn to burning-red sand dunes at sunset.
