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"Mysterious Scott" the Monte Cristo of Death Valley : and, Tracks of a tenderfoot
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"Death Valley" land of mystery : millions in sight! suggestions to prospectors
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Walter E. Scott [Death Valley Scotty] letter to William F. Keys
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In this letter, Walter Scott tells his friend Bill Keys that he got his letter and is out in the mountains with the mules. He would be home in a week and wanted to drop by and tell him what was on his mind. Scott mentions that "they" are going to make a picture and will tell Bill about it when he sees him. Letter is on Walter Scott's letterhead, The Castle at Death Valley, Goldfield, Nevada. Cover is postmarked Goldfield, Nev., 7AM, June 22, 1935. A second postmark on the verso is from Banning, Calif., 8PM, June 25, 1935. Letter is addressed to Bill Keys, Desert Queen PO, White water, Calif. via Banning.
mssHM 30948
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Walter E. Scott [Death Valley Scotty] letter to Warden Woolard [Willard]
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"Freind Willard, got my wires cross. Had to come to Castel 9am. leaving tonite for [?]. Will phone you Wensday. Your freind Scott, Castel, Monday Morn Oct 28." Written on letterhead: "Walter Scott, The Castle, Death Valley, Goldfield, Nevada."
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Index cards for Death Valley place names, ephemera, envelopes
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A collection of 306 items from 1849 to 1954, it consists of Theodore Sherman Palmer's diary of the Death Valley Expedition (1891), related notebooks, and his research material on the Jayhawker Party of 1849. Correspondents include Theodore Raymond Goodwin, William Lewis Manly, and Carl Irving Wheat. Of note in the collection is an oversize map by William Lewis Manly of the Jayhawkers' trail from Salt Lake City, Utah to San Bernardino, California circa 1890 (mssHM 50895). The collection also contains family letters from Palmer's parents, Henry Austin Palmer and Jane Olivia Palmer; in addition to letters from Palmer's brother, Harold King Palmer (an astronomer at Lick Observatory and at Mount Wilson in 1906), and his aunt, Harriet Day Palmer.
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List of localities in California, Nevada and Utah, visited by the Death Valley expedition of 1891
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