topaz in utah, which was over the bonneville flats, and tuley lake in northern california.eople discovered that when they looked at the ground and they just scratched it slightly they would find millions of shells, and because people got married in camp, they died and there was just this total lack of flowers, someone discovered that you can pick up these shells, sort them -- you'll see some very tiny ones and some bigger ones. sort them, bleach them and glue them on to some backing and make corsages and table ornaments. you'll see this wonderful samurai man in the show made out of seashells. this is slate, raw slate. a man was in topaz and there was a slate quarry there and he discovered that he could pick up the slate and he carved these marvelous tea potsed and ink wells. when you see the raw material with which you started it makes it all the more amazing. he was a gardener in oakland, and after the camp ended he didn't carve anymore. eight of the camps were in the desert. two of the camps were in arkansas in sort of a swampy forest area. they were unpaved roads, and so