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Death Valley tailings : Rarely told tales of old Death Valley [essay]

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    A Bouquet for the Death Valley '49ers [essay]

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    Koenig's essay defends his position that the Death Valley '49ers crossed the San Gabriel Mountains by descending Bouquet Canyon, not Soledad Canyon. Essay uses material written by William Lewis Manly and T.S. Palmer; it also includes maps and photographs

    mssHM 59298

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    Ranch in Death Valley

    Manuscripts

    Location: Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) Title transcribed from note on verso.

    mssHM 26404 and various photPF call numbers

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    Bottom of Death Valley, Calif

    Visual Materials

    Collection of photographs taken mainly between December 1890 and September 1891 by naturalist Theodore S. Palmer and fellow United States Department of Agriculture scientists, collecting flora and fauna in California. Areas covered include the Antelope, Owens, and San Joaquin valleys and Death Valley. The Death Valley photographs are by Palmer, San Francisco chronicle reporter William C. Burnett, and New York correspondent John R. Spears (the latter, on a second expedition in December 1891).

    photCL 416

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    Mesquite bush in Death Valley, Calif

    Visual Materials

    Collection of photographs taken mainly between December 1890 and September 1891 by naturalist Theodore S. Palmer and fellow United States Department of Agriculture scientists, collecting flora and fauna in California. Areas covered include the Antelope, Owens, and San Joaquin valleys and Death Valley. The Death Valley photographs are by Palmer, San Francisco chronicle reporter William C. Burnett, and New York correspondent John R. Spears (the latter, on a second expedition in December 1891).

    photCL 416

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    Saratoga Spring-Death Valley. Looking Northwest

    Visual Materials

    Collection of photographs taken mainly between December 1890 and September 1891 by naturalist Theodore S. Palmer and fellow United States Department of Agriculture scientists, collecting flora and fauna in California. Areas covered include the Antelope, Owens, and San Joaquin valleys and Death Valley. The Death Valley photographs are by Palmer, San Francisco chronicle reporter William C. Burnett, and New York correspondent John R. Spears (the latter, on a second expedition in December 1891).

    photCL 416

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    Bailey's Camp at Saratoga Springs, Death Valley, Calif., Jan. 1891. 'Old Jim [a horse] in foreground. W.C.B. 9

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    Collection of photographs taken mainly between December 1890 and September 1891 by naturalist Theodore S. Palmer and fellow United States Department of Agriculture scientists, collecting flora and fauna in California. Areas covered include the Antelope, Owens, and San Joaquin valleys and Death Valley. The Death Valley photographs are by Palmer, San Francisco chronicle reporter William C. Burnett, and New York correspondent John R. Spears (the latter, on a second expedition in December 1891).

    photCL 416