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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.
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.
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]
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Fort Osage based Arthur Pickett and George Keane are living high off the hog charging exorbitant fees for wagons waiting to travel westward to California. The final wagon train of the year is awaiting its experienced wagon master Tom Clay.
Wagon Master is a 1950 American Western film produced and directed by John Ford and starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Joanne Dru, and Ward Bond.The story follows a Mormon pioneer wagon train across treacherous desert to the San Juan River in Utah.
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), directed by Sergio Leone, although shot for the most part in Spain and Italy, features two scenes shot on location in Monument Valley. Ruins of the movie set can still be seen. Easy Rider (1969), directed by and co-starring Dennis Hopper, includes some footage of Monument Valley towards its beginning.