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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]
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.
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]
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.
March 2 – Buena Vista release their first film since the advent of U.S. movie ratings to not be G-rated, Take Down. March 5 – Production begins on The Empire Strikes Back. March – Frank Price becomes president of Columbia Pictures. May 25 – Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released.
Jacques Mesrine and his mistress were arrested near Monument Valley in the film Mesrine (2008). 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
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.