Death Valley '49ers
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The Death Valley '49ers were a group of pioneers from the Eastern United States that endured a long and difficult journey during the late 1840s California Gold Rush to prospect in the Sutter's Fort ar
The monument (CHL No. 441) in Burnt Wagons, California, marking the site where the group killed their oxen and burned their wagons
Death Valley Gateway (CHL No. 442), with the Panamint Range in the background
Death Valley
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Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, United States, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. The World Meteorological Organization lists Death Valley as the s
Death Valley '49ers
…the Sutter's Fort area of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada in California. Their route from Utah went through the Great Basin Desert in Nevada, and Death Valley and the Mojave Desert in Southern California, in attempting to reach the Gold Country. On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall and his crew found gold…
Death Valley as seen from Space Shuttle Columbia in October 1995
Landscape of Death Valley deserted land
Sand dunes at Mesquite Flats
View from Badwater Basin