The Ghost Town of Bodie a California State Park

Russ Johnson

Chalfant Pr

Qualified as one of the more important and reliable presentations of Death Valley's fascinating history. The author is a capable writer and the material he has assembled is carefully researched and its substanc eis factually reported. Moreover, this source material is vividly and entertainingly presented. By a most conservative appraisal, Death Valley in 1849 ranks as one of this desert's outstanding books. An intensely interesting and informative unraveling of some of the mysteries of the legendary Death Valley 49ers. Not content with parroting previous theories of Jayhawker, et al, trail retracings, Southworth's finding are the result of years of on the scene searching. Notable is his iconoclastic shattering of the Towne Pass myth as the escape route from the 1849ers ill-named 'valley of the death'. An excellent addition to the library of historian or armchair reader delving into the fascinating story of the gold rush emigrants who blundered into Death Valley on their fateful 'short cut' to California's Mother Lode.

The Lost Death Valley Forty-Niner Journal of Louis Nusbaumer

History

Koenig, George

Americas

Attempts to synthesize the material recorded by early journalists and writers."

Bodie 1859-1900

Wedertz, Frank

In the winter of 1849, William Lewis Manly, a pioneer immigrant to California, and his companions blundered into Death Valley as they turned south from the Rockies in search of a quicker route to the gold fields. The group was stranded, and Manly and another man set out on foot to find help. Fourteen days later they wandered into Mission San Fernando. They returned to their companions with supplies and brought them out of Death Valley to safety. Encouraged by his friends, Manly wrote his remarkable story, detailing his journey and rescue mission.With an introduction by noted historian Patricia Limerick and freshly edited, indexed, and annotated in an unusually handsome edition, Death Valley in '49 is both an important book--central to our understanding of early California--and, with its compelling narrative, a joy to read.

Death Valley in '49

Biographies & Memoirs

Manly, William Lewis

Regional U.S.

By the year 1820 virtually all the North American continent had been discovered and explored by the new civilization.There remained only one lacunae, one gap in the mapping of the continent. Between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada stretched an empty tract, an unknown land. Contents: Introduction; The People; The Explorers: (Jedediah Strong Smith: the First and the Greatest, Peter Skene Ogden: The Forgotten Explorer, Joseph R. Walker: The Fighting Explorer, John Charles Fremont: Pathfinder or Politician?); The Immigrants.

Desert People and Mountain Men: Exploration of the Great Basin, 1824-1865

Phillips, Fred M.

Well illustrated with black and white photos, it offers historical sketches of Old Bridgeport, Big Meadows and vicinity. Great for Mono County, California history buffs.

Mono Diggings

Wedertz, Frank S.

Gold, Guns, and Ghost Towns

Chalfant, W. A.

Naming the Eastern Sierra

Sowaal, Marguerite

Geological Story of Death Valley

Clements, Thomas

Naturalist's Death Valley

Jæger, Edmund C.

Sports & Outdoors

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