Death Valley '49ers
Aspect of the California Gold Rush / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Lost 49ers" and "Lost Forty-niners" redirect here. For the book by William Lewis Manly, see Death Valley in '49.
The Death Valley '49ers were a group of pioneers from the Eastern United States that endured a long and difficult journey during the late 1840s California Gold Rush to prospect in the Sutter's Fort area of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada in California. Their route from Utah went through the Great Basin Desert in Nevada, and Death Valley and the Mojave Desert in Southern California, in attempting to reach the Gold Country.