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This is the history of Death Valley, where that bitter stream the
Amargosa dies. It embraces the whole basin of the Amargosa from the
Panamints to the Spring Mountains, from the Palmettos to the
Avawatz. And it spans a century from the earliest recollections and
the oldest records to that day in 1933 when much of the valley was
finally set aside as a National Monument. This is the story of an
illusory land, of the people it attracted and of the dreams and
delusions they pursued-the story of the metals in its mountains and
the salts in its sinks, of its desiccating heat and its
revitalizing springs, and of all the riches of its scenery and
lore-the story of Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and
lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and
millionaires, stockholders and stock sharps, homesteaders and
hermits, writers and tourists. But mostly this is the story of the
illusions-the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that
lured the forty-niners, of inescapable deadliness that hung in the
name they left behind, of lost bonanzas that grew out of the few
nuggets they found, of immeasurable riches spread by hopeful
prospectors and calculating con men, and of impenetrable mysteries
concocted by the likes of Scotty. These and many lesser illusions
are the heart of its history.
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