The Sonoran Desert stretches a little more than 100,000 square miles across the hardscrabble terrain of California, Arizona and northwestern Mexico. It’s what’s known as a “hot desert” — defined as one of the hottest, largest deserts in North America. Curiously, it's also known as “the wettest desert on earth” and is home to numerous native species and to the largest North American toad — one whose venom will send you on a psychedelic trip. An explanatory 1984 booklet printed at Venom Press in Denton first put the Sonoran Desert and its toad on the map; "Bufo Alvarius: the Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert," written by a reclusive Denton artist and researcher under the pseudonym Albert Most, is considered a groundbreaking collection of experiential, anecdotal testimony and academic research explaining everything anyone at the time would have needed to know to take a trip of their own. The author’s work, however, was wrongly credited to a man seemingly seeking his 15 minutes of unearned fame.