SW Idaho, SE Oregon and North Nevada are home to an area collectively known as the Owyhees. They are the home of a gold and silver mines, ranches and seas of sage and grass.
Some say it is ugly and useless.
I grew up in the area and the Owyhees are neither.
A couple of weekends ago I drove out to the Idaho edge of the Owyhees and spent a few hours just being there. It was cold and the wind was blowing, but it was like being back home.
BTW the first "white" people to travel through this area were from the Sandwich Islands, which later was known os Hawaii. If you say that word like the native Hawiians do it sounds amazingly like the way the desert name is pronounced!