Burned Wagons Point
Near this monument, Jayhawker group of Death Valley Forty-niners, gold seekers from Middle West, who entered Death Valley in 1849 seeking short route to mines of central California, burned their wagons, dried the meat of some oxen and, with surviving animals, struggled westward on foot.
1971 register text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native people; the state's landmark listings still carry most of this wording, and the California Office of Historic Preservation maintains the program's current texts.
Many of these plaques have since been recast or their texts revised. The California Historical Landmarks program and its current texts are maintained by the California Office of Historic Preservation. California Office of Historic Preservation ↗
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Marker data: State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, California Historical Landmarks (1971)
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