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Photographer: courtesy Colorpicture Publishers
Caption: Vintage Postcard of the Marker
Additional Description: Description on Postcard:
Alongside Stove Pipe Wells Hotel in Death Valley National Monument is the "Burnt Wagons" Monument. It marks the area where distraught members of the gold-seeking Jayhawkers party of 1849 burned their wagons and set off on foot after killing some of their oxen and drying the meat.
Submitted: October 12, 2015.
Database Locator Identification Number: p333272
File Size: 0.837 Megabytes

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