"Snow whitens the banks of a reservoir…near Pioche, Nevada. Wintering at the pond, mallard ducks swim on a November morning; falling snow powders last summer's weeds, standing brittle in the cold. The reservoir, fed by a permanent spring, offers swimming in summer and ice skating in winter."

(Text from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic book Great American Deserts, 1971)