Jefferson Hunt
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Jefferson Hunt was a U.S. western pioneer, soldier, and politician. He was a captain in the Mormon Battalion, brigadier general in the California State Militia, a California State Assemblyman, and a r
Jefferson Hunt
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
Jefferson Hunt
…his slow progress, and many of the party members elected to abandon Hunt's group, and follow their own route to California. They became the infamous Death Valley '49ers. Those staying with Hunt made the journey without serious incident. On his way to California in 1851, Hunt was elected to represent Iron County in the…
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