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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 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.
The valley later became the subject of books, radio programs, television series, and movies. Tourism expanded in the 1920s when resorts were built around Stovepipe Wells and Furnace Creek. Death Valley National Monument was declared in 1933 and the park was substantially expanded and became a national park in 1994. [3]
The Hallelujah Trail is a 1965 American Western epic mockumentary spoof directed by John Sturges, with top-billed stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton and Pamela Tiffin.
Ballarat is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. [1] It was founded in 1897 as a supply point for the mines in the canyons of the Panamint Range.A quarter-mile to the south is Post Office Springs, a reliable water source used since the 1850s.
Radio Flyer is a 1992 American drama-fantasy film directed by Richard Donner and written by David Mickey Evans.It stars Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, Adam Baldwin, and Ben Johnson and is narrated by Tom Hanks. [1]