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The Funeral Mountains is a short, arid mountain range in the United States along the California-Nevada border approximately 100 mi (160 km) west of Las Vegas. The mountains are considered a subrange of the Amargosa Range that form the eastern wall of Death Valley. The crest of the range is within Death Valley National Park.
Ritchie's family originated in Scotland and Ireland. His grandfather, William Ritchie, was born on board the ship carrying Ritchie's great-grandparents to America. His father, Hugh Ritchie, married Esther Alexander, of a family that had emigrated to Virginia in 1737. [1] Archibald Alexander Ritchie was born in New Castle, Delaware on 28 January ...
The eastern portion begins at US 395 southeast of Olancha, heads east through Death Valley National Park, and ends at State Route 127 at Death Valley Junction. The 43.0-mile [ 2 ] (69.2 km) portion over the Sierra Nevada remains unconstructed, and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has no plans to build it through the ...
Boron (formerly Amargo, Baker, Borate, and Kern) [4] is a unincorporated place in Kern County, California, United States. Boron is 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Red Rock Mountain at an elevation of 2,467 feet (752 m). [4] For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Boron as a census-designated place (CDP). The ...
SR 127 continues along the eastern edge of Death Valley National Park, passing by Eagle Mountain and the Amargosa River before intersecting SR 190 at Death Valley Junction. The road ends at the California-Nevada border, where Nevada State Route 373 begins. [3] It is the "Lost Highway" featured in David Lynch's film Lost Highway.
Furnace Creek, like the rest of Death Valley, has a hot desert climate (Köppen: BWh), with long, extremely hot summers; short, warm winters; and little rainfall. Daytime temperatures range from roughly 65 °F (18 °C) in December to 116 °F (47 °C) in July, while overnight lows typically oscillate from 40 °F (4 °C) to 90 °F (32 °C).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 732 square miles (1,900 km 2), of which 708 square miles (1,830 km 2) are land and 23 square miles (60 km 2) (3.2%) are water. [5]
Twenty-mule-team wagons on display in Death Valley, California The vehicles The carriage assembly. In 1877, six years before twenty-mule teams would be introduced in Death Valley, Scientific American reported that Francis Marion Smith and his brother had shipped their company's borax in a 30-ton load using two large wagons, with a third wagon for food and water, drawn by a 24-mule team over a ...