Ruling will allow Mojave Desert outcropping to again feature a cross
A court approves a land exchange that will put Sunset Rock, where a succession of crosses stood for decades, in private hands. The memorial in a national preserve had been a source of contention since 1999.
A dying man's request is nothing Henry and Wanda Sandoz take lightly. So when the sick and elderly Riley Bembry asked the couple nearly 30 years ago to maintain a memorial and a cross atop a lonely outcropping in the middle of the Mojave Desert long after he was gone, they had to say yes.
