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The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848 is one of the defining moments in California history, with roughly 300,000 forty-niners flocking here to make their fortune from the U.S. and abroad.
The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 32% score, based on 73 reviews, with an average rating of 4.8/10. The site's critical consensus states, "Mojave has no shortage of talent on either side of the camera; unfortunately, it amounts to little more than a frustrating missed opportunity."
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.
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Bagdad Cafe (sometimes Bagdad Café, titled Out of Rosenheim in Germany) is a 1987 English-language West German film directed by Percy Adlon.It is a comedy-drama set in a remote truck stop and motel in the Mojave Desert in the U.S. state of California. [1]
A Times story in 1937 chronicled Frank Critzer's efforts to build a home under Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert. The article made a point of saying that an Oldsmobile helped make the trip from L.A ...
The Kid – 2000 film (Coachella Valley) [citation needed] The Long, Long Trailer – 1954 film (on the Pines to Palms Scenic Byway (State Route 74) in Palm Desert) [87] The Player – 1992 film (Desert Hot Springs) [10] [88] The Salton Sea – 2002 film (Mecca (Box Canyon and Painted Canyon) and the Salton Sea) [46]
Pilgrims in the desert : the early history of the east Mojave desert and Baker, California area by Le Hayes and the Mojave River Valley Historical Association, Mojave River Valley Historical Association, (2005) ISBN 0-918614-16-3 ISBN 978-0-918614-16-2; Death Valley in '49 by William Lewis Manly at Project Gutenberg