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Ground afire : the story of the Death Valley National Monument / Laura Nelson Baker.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Laura Nelson, 1911-2003, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)--Juvenile literature.
- Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.).
- United States--Death Valley.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 166 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atheneum, 1971
- Summary:
- Describes the geological formation and history of the valley on the boundary of California and Nevada known as Death Valley, which the Indigenous people of the area called "ground afire."
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Sand Walking Company's mystery map
- Breakup of the wagon train
- Death valley and disaster
- Manly and Rogers make it out
- "Goodbye, Death Valley!"
- Lost mines and the search for wealth
- The first white resident of Death valley
- The twenty mule teams
- Death valley legends and characters
- Desert school
- Becoming a national monument
- Today in Death Valley
- Notes:
- "First edition."--title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8052: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 212898
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