Tag: Shirley Burman Steinheimer

DeWayne “Dooby” Williams: Guru of the Black Rock Desert

by Shirley Burman SteinheimerAugust 11, 2014 • 2 Comments

I arrived at Gerlach, Nevada late in the day on a photo assignment for Nevada Magazine. A story about two railroading sisters who hauled materials from the Empire gypsum plant to Gerlach and Union Pacific’s main line where the loaded…

Shirley Burman and Richard Steinheimer: A Desert Date on “Mars”

by Shirley Burman SteinheimerJuly 16, 2011 • 20 Comments

Ed. Note: California Desert Art is honored to present one of the great untold romances of the desert. Staged in a crater near Amboy, Shirley Burman Steinheimer’s story tells of her first desert date with Richard Steinheimer. Her late husband…