These Canyons Are Full of Ghosts: The Last of the Death Valley Prospectors Emmett C. Harder
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Nowadays tourists from all over the world travel to Death Valley but most all of them never see the romantic and mysterious badlands, the south end of the valley. This area is off the beaten path, remote and dangerous! This book is about the gold hunters that loved to search the southern wastelands, the high hills and deep canyons, come hell or high water. It is about their last days, an era lost forever. The whole valley is off limits now for prospecting. No longer can you hear the distant sound of dynamite nor will you see men or women in tattered denim clothes, with pick and shovel, working their mining claims. However in these pages you can step back to when they were there, and share their excitement and share their dreams–and you will be sure to strike it rich!
Hiking Death Valley National Park: 36 Day and Overnight Hikes (Regional Hiking Series)
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Hiking Death Valley National Park contains detailed information about 36 of the best day hikes and extended backpacking trips in the largest national park outside of Alaska. Supplemented with GPS-compatible maps, mile-by-mile directional cues, rich narratives, and beautiful photographs, this is the only book you’ll need for this land of extremes.
Hiking Death Valley National Park: 36 Day and Overnight Hikes (Regional Hiking Series)
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Hiking Death Valley National Park contains detailed information about 36 of the best day hikes and extended backpacking trips in the largest national park outside of Alaska. Supplemented with GPS-compatible maps, mile-by-mile directional cues, rich narratives, and beautiful photographs, this is the only book you’ll need for this land of extremes.
Grit and Gold: The Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849
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No other Western settlement story is more famous than the Donner Party’s ill-fated journey through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But a few years later and several hundred miles south, another group faced a similar situation just as perilous.
Scrupulously researched and documented, Grit and Gold, tells the story of the Death Valley Jayhawkers of 1849 and the young men who traveled by wagon and foot from Iowa to the California gold rush. The Jayhawkers’ journey took them through the then uncharted and unnamed hottest, driest, lowest spot in the continent—now aptly known as Death Valley.
After leaving Salt Lake City to break a road south to the Pacific Coast that would eliminate crossing the snowy Sierra Nevada, the party veered off the Old Spanish Trail in southern Utah to follow a mountaineer’s map portraying a bogus trail that claimed to cut months and hundreds of miles off their route to the gold country. With winter coming, however, they found themselves hopelessly lost in the mountains and dry valleys of southern Nevada and California.
Abandoning everything but the shirts on their backs and the few oxen that became their pitiful meals, they turned their dreams of gold into hopes of survival. Utilizing William Lorton’s 1849 diary of the trek from Illinois to southern Utah, the reminiscences of the Jayhawkers themselves, the keen memory of famed pioneer William Lewis Manly, and the almost daily diary of Sheldon Young, Johnson paints a lively but accurate portrait of guts, grit, and determination.
Death Valley in ’49 (California Legacy) (California Legacy Book)
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.
Perhaps nowhere else on earth is geology better observed and studied than in Death Valley. The Valley may seem like a place where time has stood still for hundreds of millions of years, but the geologic story here is complex and reveals a land torn by great physical changes.
An introduction to the Geology of Death Valley by Michael Collier captures the drama of the processes that are constantly changing Death Valley’s landscape. He creatively weaves an account of Death Valley’s one-hundred-and-forty-year mining history into the one-and-a-half-billion-year geologic history of the Valley. Through these stories and his perceptive observations of a slowly evolving landscape, there emerges a fresh perspective on Death Valley.
Michael Collier describes flash floods which create broad, fan-shaped deposits of sand, gravel, and boulders; volcanoes blasting forth great volumes of ash that once blanketed the surrounding mountains and valleys; warm, shallow seas that extended over thousands of square miles. He describes a region rent by great earthquakes that pushed up mountain ranges and sand valleys; where thick sheets of solid rock have been pushed sideways for miles or gently slid down sloping mountain fronts; where the earth’s forces have folded, crushed, or moved great masses of rock. As he so well puts it, “The soil of Death Valley – tough scorched, and salt-ridden – has been very fertile for geologic thought.”
Commissioned by the Death Valley Natural History Association, Collier accomplished the goal of taking a complex, and sometimes controversial, geology and transforming it into a story, the essence of solid natural history writing.
Light rubbing wear to cover, spine and page edges. Very minimal writing or notations in margins not affecting the text. Possible clean ex-library copy, with their stickers and or stamp(s).
Death Valley National Park Recreation Map (Tom Harrison Maps)
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All maps have color-coded symbols and trails, mileages between trail junctions, latitude/longitude, UTM grids, contour lines, vegetation, and elevations at trail junctions.Tom Harrison Maps is famous for the beauty and accuracy of its maps.
Death Valley National Park Recreation Map (Tom Harrison Maps)
$19.09 – TRADE – New
All maps have color-coded symbols and trails, mileages between trail junctions, latitude/longitude, UTM grids, contour lines, vegetation, and elevations at trail junctions.Tom Harrison Maps is famous for the beauty and accuracy of its maps.
The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park, Fourth Edition
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Emerge: Addiction: A Journey Through The Valley of the Shadow of Death
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Discover A Powerful way to Escape Addiction, Depression, & Substance Abuse.Addiction – It is with you 24/7 and the fear of it can be sickening. A part of a persons life that if kept hidden has the potential to be fatal. It can not be dismissed, it must be confronted and dealt with. This is a story of how addiction can be overcome.Author Robert A. Bullock takes you through his life, from early childhood, teenage years, and into early adulthood as he shares his story of triumph and pain.In “Emerge: Addiction- A Journey Through The Valley of the Shadow of Death” you will journey from addiction to recovery. In the process you will discover:-An early childhood drama- Painfull experience with racism- Stigma those with HIV face in the Church.- Personal growth and triumph as a teen.- College life and Early adulthood- A collapse in professional career and finances.- Spiral into depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.- Rock Bottom and the bounce back.- RedemptionDiscover the humanity in one man’s journey as he describes what circumstances helped to strengthen his faith in God and empathy for all those who struggle with addiciton.Robert A. Bullock is a co-founder of a nonprofit with the goal of helping others beat addiction and substance abuse. For additional resources to help you or a loved one beat addiction go to RobertABullock.net
Emerge: Addiction: A Journey Through The Valley of the Shadow of Death
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Discover A Powerful way to Escape Addiction, Depression, & Substance Abuse.Addiction – It is with you 24/7 and the fear of it can be sickening. A part of a persons life that if kept hidden has the potential to be fatal. It can not be dismissed, it must be confronted and dealt with. This is a story of how addiction can be overcome.Author Robert A. Bullock takes you through his life, from early childhood, teenage years, and into early adulthood as he shares his story of triumph and pain.In “Emerge: Addiction- A Journey Through The Valley of the Shadow of Death” you will journey from addiction to recovery. In the process you will discover:-An early childhood drama- Painfull experience with racism- Stigma those with HIV face in the Church.- Personal growth and triumph as a teen.- College life and Early adulthood- A collapse in professional career and finances.- Spiral into depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.- Rock Bottom and the bounce back.- RedemptionDiscover the humanity in one man’s journey as he describes what circumstances helped to strengthen his faith in God and empathy for all those who struggle with addiciton.Robert A. Bullock is a co-founder of a nonprofit with the goal of helping others beat addiction and substance abuse. For additional resources to help you or a loved one beat addiction go to RobertABullock.net
Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.
With sculpted sand dunes, crusted salt flats, and polished marble canyons, Death Valley is as close as you can get to another planet.This book tells you what you need to know to plan the perfect trip for you:· Strategies for how to get there, how long it will take, and where to stop along the way· Hikes to abandoned mining camps, remote ghost towns, and hidden springs· The most scenic backcountry roads in and around the park· The best places to pitch a tent, park your RV, or bed down indoors· Excursions beyond the park boundaries to offbeat sights like the Amargosa Opera House and the Trona Pinnacles
With sculpted sand dunes, crusted salt flats, and polished marble canyons, Death Valley is as close as you can get to another planet.This book tells you what you need to know to plan the perfect trip for you:· Strategies for how to get there, how long it will take, and where to stop along the way· Hikes to abandoned mining camps, remote ghost towns, and hidden springs· The most scenic backcountry roads in and around the park· The best places to pitch a tent, park your RV, or bed down indoors· Excursions beyond the park boundaries to offbeat sights like the Amargosa Opera House and the Trona Pinnacles
As summer vacation draws near, children (and adults) start dreaming ofthe next great adventure. Why not become National Park Explorers and discover the wonders contained in some of America’s most popular national parks? Each book in this new series highlights key landscape features, wildlife, and activities unique to the park, noting when is a particularly good time of year to visit. Abundant photographs will captivate the eye and entice each armchair adventurer to hop in the car or catch a plane to experience the park in all its scenic glory. A young explorer’s introduction to California and Nevada’s Death Valley National Park, covering its desert landscape, plants, animals such as desert tortoises, and activities such as bird-watching.
As summer vacation draws near, children (and adults) start dreaming ofthe next great adventure. Why not become National Park Explorers and discover the wonders contained in some of America’s most popular national parks? Each book in this new series highlights key landscape features, wildlife, and activities unique to the park, noting when is a particularly good time of year to visit. Abundant photographs will captivate the eye and entice each armchair adventurer to hop in the car or catch a plane to experience the park in all its scenic glory. A young explorer’s introduction to California and Nevada’s Death Valley National Park, covering its desert landscape, plants, animals such as desert tortoises, and activities such as bird-watching.
Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area. Now in its third edition, this is still the only book that includes all aspects of the park. Much more than just a guidebook, it covers the park’s cultural history, botany and zoology, hiking and biking opportunities, and more. Information is provided for all of Death Valley’s visitors, from first-time travelers just learning about the area to those who are returning for in-depth explorations. The book includes updated point-to-point logs for every road within and around the park, as well as more accurate maps than those in any other publication. With extensive input from National Park Service resource management, law enforcement, and interpretive personnel, as well as a thorough bibliography for suggested reading, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park, Third Edition is the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive guide available for this national treasure.
The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park, Third Edition
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Originally published in 1995, soon after Death Valley National Park became the fifty-third park in the US park system, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park was the first complete guidebook available for this spectacular area. Now in its third edition, this is still the only book that includes all aspects of the park. Much more than just a guidebook, it covers the park’s cultural history, botany and zoology, hiking and biking opportunities, and more. Information is provided for all of Death Valley’s visitors, from first-time travelers just learning about the area to those who are returning for in-depth explorations. The book includes updated point-to-point logs for every road within and around the park, as well as more accurate maps than those in any other publication. With extensive input from National Park Service resource management, law enforcement, and interpretive personnel, as well as a thorough bibliography for suggested reading, The Explorer’s Guide to Death Valley National Park, Third Edition is the most up-to-date, accurate, and comprehensive guide available for this national treasure.
Today everyone knows Mickey Mouse as Disney’s cheerful ambassador. But back in the 1930s, Mickey gained fame as a rough-and-tumble, two-fisted epic hero! And Mickey’s greatest feats of derring-do were written and drawn by one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th century ― Floyd Gottfredson. The premiere volume, Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 1: “Race to Death Valley” features a dozen different adventures starring Mickey, his gal Minnie and her uncle Mortimer (not to be confused with Mickey’s rival in the animates shorts!), his pals Horace Horsecollar and Butch, the villainous Pegleg Pete, and the mysterious and shrouded Fox. Relive Mickey’s race to a gold mine with Pegleg Pete hot on his heels; Mickey’s life on the lam after being framed for bank robbery; even Mickey’s ringside battle with a hulking heavyweight champ! Now it’s time to rediscover the wild, unforgettable personality behind the icon: Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse.
Today everyone knows Mickey Mouse as Disney’s cheerful ambassador. But back in the 1930s, Mickey gained fame as a rough-and-tumble, two-fisted epic hero! And Mickey’s greatest feats of derring-do were written and drawn by one of the greatest cartoonists of the 20th century ― Floyd Gottfredson. The premiere volume, Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 1: “Race to Death Valley” features a dozen different adventures starring Mickey, his gal Minnie and her uncle Mortimer (not to be confused with Mickey’s rival in the animates shorts!), his pals Horace Horsecollar and Butch, the villainous Pegleg Pete, and the mysterious and shrouded Fox. Relive Mickey’s race to a gold mine with Pegleg Pete hot on his heels; Mickey’s life on the lam after being framed for bank robbery; even Mickey’s ringside battle with a hulking heavyweight champ! Now it’s time to rediscover the wild, unforgettable personality behind the icon: Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse.
The most incredible, unbelievable, wild, weird, fun, fascinating, and true facts about Death Valley National Park.Death Valley National Park is full of wonder – and so is this book. Here you will find the biggest and smallest, longest and shortest, first and last, weirdest and wildest, and the who, what, and where of Death Valley. From Telescope Peak to Badwater Basin and everything in between, Death Valley Trivia offers something fascinating, fun, and little known about the area’s landscapes, geology, plants, wildlife, weather, explorers, prospectors, outlaws, celebrities – and more.Carry it on a hike, read it in your car, and take it home to enjoy again and again. Play a Death Valley trivia game with family and friends! These trivial trifles, treasures, and treats will keep you laughing, learning, and guessing. It’s fun-tastic!
The most incredible, unbelievable, wild, weird, fun, fascinating, and true facts about Death Valley National Park.Death Valley National Park is full of wonder – and so is this book. Here you will find the biggest and smallest, longest and shortest, first and last, weirdest and wildest, and the who, what, and where of Death Valley. From Telescope Peak to Badwater Basin and everything in between, Death Valley Trivia offers something fascinating, fun, and little known about the area’s landscapes, geology, plants, wildlife, weather, explorers, prospectors, outlaws, celebrities – and more.Carry it on a hike, read it in your car, and take it home to enjoy again and again. Play a Death Valley trivia game with family and friends! These trivial trifles, treasures, and treats will keep you laughing, learning, and guessing. It’s fun-tastic!
Death Valley National Park Adventure Set: Trail Map & Wildlife Guide
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The Death Valley National Park Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, ideal, lightweight references to take hiking or driving through this spectacular region. Waterford’s beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of trees, shrubs, cacti and wildflowers also includes a map featuring prominent botanical sanctuaries. National Geographic’s Death Valley National Park Trails Illustrated Map is a waterproof, tear-resistant map that features detailed topographic information of the region, useful traveling tips, plus up-to-date information on trails, roads, and points of interest.www.waterfordpress.com
Salt to Summit: A Vagabond Journey from Death Valley to Mount Whitney
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From the depths of Death Valley, Daniel Arnold set out to reach Mount Whitney in a way no road or trail could take him. Anything manmade or designed to make travel easy was out. With a backpack full of water bottles, and the remotest corners of desert before him, he began his toughest test yet of physical and mental endurance.Badwater Basin sits 282 feet below sea level in Death Valley, the lowest and hottest place in the Western Hemisphere. Mount Whitney rises 14,505 feet above sea level, the highest point in the contiguous United States. Arnold spent seventeen days traveling a roundabout route from one to the other, traversing salt flats, scaling dunes, and sinking into slot canyons. Aside from bighorn sheep and a phantom mountain lion, his only companions were ghosts of the dreamers and misfits who first dared into this unknown territory. He walked in the footsteps of William Manly, who rescued the last of the forty-niners from the bottom of Death Valley; tracked John LeMoigne, a prospector who died in the sand with his burros; and relived the tales of Mary Austin, who learned the secret trails of the Shoshone Indians. This is their story too, as
Salt to Summit: A Vagabond Journey from Death Valley to Mount Whitney
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From the depths of Death Valley, Daniel Arnold set out to reach Mount Whitney in a way no road or trail could take him. Anything manmade or designed to make travel easy was out. With a backpack full of water bottles, and the remotest corners of desert before him, he began his toughest test yet of physical and mental endurance.Badwater Basin sits 282 feet below sea level in Death Valley, the lowest and hottest place in the Western Hemisphere. Mount Whitney rises 14,505 feet above sea level, the highest point in the contiguous United States. Arnold spent seventeen days traveling a roundabout route from one to the other, traversing salt flats, scaling dunes, and sinking into slot canyons. Aside from bighorn sheep and a phantom mountain lion, his only companions were ghosts of the dreamers and misfits who first dared into this unknown territory. He walked in the footsteps of William Manly, who rescued the last of the forty-niners from the bottom of Death Valley; tracked John LeMoigne, a prospector who died in the sand with his burros; and relived the tales of Mary Austin, who learned the secret trails of the Shoshone Indians. This is their story too, as
