Silver Stampede: The Career of Death Valley [SOLD]

From the Publisher's Preface:

This nice book was first published in 1937 as a companion volume to author Wilson's earlier 1936 title, Treasure Express, The Epic Days of Wells Fargo. Both titles capture the flavor of a place and a time that are gone forever. Author Dane Coolidge wrote these words in 1938: Death Valley, a desert valley nearly a hundred miles long, in California 'near the Nevada line, is principally known for its production of borax. It is the bottom of a volcanic fault, or trough, partially filled by alluvial deposits and salts, the last of a series of dry lakes where the drainage from the Sierra Nevada Mountains finally settles at Bad Water, 276 feet below sea level.

Death Valley received its name from the ManlyHunt party of emigrants, many of whom perished there in 1849. While coming south from Salt Lake City, 27 wagons separated from the rest and tried to find a short-cut to California. They were attacked by Paiute Indians, and in the bottom of Death Valley killed their oxen, burned their wagons to cure the meat, and struck out on foot to the west. Thirteen died along the way. The -rest succeeded in reaching California. At Emigrant Spring a rich deposit of silver was found, the first of the many lost mines for which Death Valley has become famous.