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Visit Burned Wagons Point Monument, California

Burned Wagons Point, California Historical Landmark No. 441, Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley National Park, California. 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. Located 100 ft S of State Hwy 190 (P.M. 85.9), Stovepipe Wells.
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