11.   From his office in north Scottsdale, WestWorld Director Bill Ensign has a sweeping view across the desert floor toward the McDowell Mountains.

12.   Here, from the desert floor, snow-capped peaks of the Tianshan Mountains are visible year-round, the source of the river waters that permit agriculture.

13.   Here, where a small lake lapped at the cracked desert floor, hundreds of tents bloomed like so many multi-colored mushrooms.

14.   Hit a ball off the tightly cut, well-defined fairways and it might bounce off the hard-baked desert floor and into a kangaroo rat hole.

15.   In other years, the desert floor would be splashed with brilliant color, but this season not a wildflower was in sight.

16.   It rose, piece by piece, lurching and ominous, from the desert floor.

17.   Its tracks crisscross the desert floor for miles, giving testament to how numerous they must have been in their heyday.

18.   Left to their own devices, the pilots and gunners onstage would send their imaginary helicopters crashing to the desert floor.

19.   Look up from a desert floor baked hard as a mosaic to the great towering stalks of the century plants that bloom once then die.

20.   Moments later, Coughlin died on the desert floor.