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BURNED WAGONS POINT
Near this monument, the Jayhawker group of Death Valley Forty-Niners, gold seekers from Middle West, who entered Death Valley in 1849 seeking short route to the mines of central California, burned their wagons, dried the meat of some oxen and, with surviving animals, struggled westward on foot.
State Registered Landmark No.441
Marker placed by California Centennials Commission. Base furnished by Death Valley '49ers, Inc.
Dedicated December 3rd, 1949 |