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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]
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; A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) was partially shot on location in Monument Valley.
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]
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie ; Missile to the Moon (1958) Mom and Dad Save the World ; The Muppet Movie ; My Stepmother Is an Alien ; Nickelodeon ; One Million B.C. Parasite ; Planet of Dinosaurs ; Planet of the Apes (2001) Playing God (1997) Princess of Mars (2009) The Rapture (1991) The Sea of Grass (1947) Secrets (1933)
The film was shot on location in Monument Valley utilizing large areas of the Navajo reservation along the Arizona-Utah state border. [4] Ford and cinematographer Winton C. Hoch based much of the film's imagery on the paintings and sculptures of Frederic Remington. Hoch won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color in 1950.
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.