Manuel Pastor
Appearances
Today, Explained
The white gold rush
Imperial Valley has been a place of scams, schemes, and scoundrels from its earliest days. It was a real estate company that wanted to create a place of agricultural abundance that renamed it the Imperial Valley.
Today, Explained
The white gold rush
But they did a bad job. The canal broke, and they couldn't fix it. For two years, it kept on flooding. And the Salton Sea is the result of that accident.