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The monument (CHL No. 441) in Burnt Wagons, California, marking the site where the group killed their oxen and burned their wagonsThe 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 area of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada in California.
Burnt Wagons is a former settlement in Inyo County, California, near Stovepipe Wells. [2] It was located in Death Valley 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Death Valley Junction. [2] The name recalls the emigrants of 1849 who abandoned and burnt their wagons at the site. [2] The site is now registered as California Historical Landmark #441. [1]
NO. 441 BURNED WAGONS POINT - Near this monument, the Jayhawker group of Death Valley '49ers, gold seekers from the Middle West who entered Death Valley in 1849 seeking a short route to the mines of central California, burned their wagons, dried the meat of some oxen and, with surviving animals, struggled westward on foot. [11]
The Bennett-Arcane party became known as the Death Valley '49ers. [2] [3] [4] The Death Valley '49ers were pioneers from the Eastern United States travelling west to prospect in the Sutter's Fort area of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada in California. The wagon train crossed Utah through the Great Basin Desert and then crossed into Nevada ...
Behind a narration in the style of Jack Webb on TV's "Dragnet", U.S. Marshal Sam Nelson, posing as Sam Smith, is sent to a gold-boom town in California to learn the identity of three killers.
The marker at the site (about 30 miles north of Baker) reads: [4] NO. 622 HARRY WADE EXIT ROUTE – After getting to Death Valley with the ill-fated 1849 caravan, Harry Wade found this exit route for his ox-drawn wagon and thereby saved his life and the lives of his wife and children.
Jacques Mesrine and his mistress were arrested near Monument Valley in the film Mesrine (2008). Location sequences for the documentary Reel Injun (2009), on the history of Native Americans in the movies. The Lone Ranger (2013) filmed numerous scenes in Monument Valley. In The Lego Movie (2014) it is depicted in the early part of the movie
Ballarat is used as a meeting point for four wheeling expeditions into the Panamint Range and Death Valley, and in winter up to 300 people camp in the grounds of the town. The town was recently used as a set to tell the story of the Ballarat Bandit. Ballarat was featured in an episode of Top Gear USA and the movie Obselidia.