1/4/2015
Landmark information
- Location:
Death Valley National Park, 100 ft S of Hwy 190 (pm 85.9), Stovepipe Wells - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Nothing Remains - Date First Visited:
1/4/2015 - Date Most Recently Visited:
1/4/2015 - GPS Coordinates:
N 36 36.410, W 117 8.765
About this landmark
Plaque text:
Near this monument, Jayhawker group of Death Valley forty-niners, gold seekers from Middle West, who entered Death Valley in 1849 seeking short route to mines of central California, burned their wagons, dried the meat of some oxen and, with surviving animals, struggled westward on foot.