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1) Death Valley in '49: an important chapter of California pioneer history

Author

Manly, William Lewis

Publisher

Wallace Hebberd

Pub. Date

c1929

Physical Desc

xiii, 523 p. : ill.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Online Content

2) Death Valley tailings: rarely told tales of old Death Valley

Author

Koenig, George

Publisher

Sagebrush Press

Pub. Date

1986

Physical Desc

125 p. : ill., maps.

Language

English

3) Goodbye, Death Valley!: the 1849 Jayhawker escape

Author

Belden, L. Burr

Series

Publication (Death Valley '49ers) volume no. 4

Publisher

Death Valley '49ers

Pub. Date

Physical Desc

61, [2] pages : portraits ; 22 cm.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Online Content

4) Death Valley's victims: a descriptive chronology, 1849-1980

Author

Cronkhite, Daniel

Publisher

Sagebrush Press

Pub. Date

c1981

Edition

3rd ed

Physical Desc

77 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., ports.

Language

English

5) Chronology of the Death Valley region in California 1849-1949, and place names of the Death Valley region in California and Nevada, 1845-1947: an index of the events, persons, and publications connected with its history

Author

Palmer, T. S

Series

West Coast studies volume 3

Publisher

Borgo Press

Pub. Date

c1989

Physical Desc

22, 80 p.

Language

English

6) Death Valley and the Amargosa: a land of illusion

Author

Lingenfelter, Richard E

Publisher

University of California Press

Pub. Date

c1986

Physical Desc

viii, 664 p. : ill., maps, ports.

Language

English

7) The shadow of the arrow

Author

Long, Margaret

Publisher

Caxton Printers

Pub. Date

1941

Physical Desc

310 p. : ill.

Language

English

8) Death Valley, U.S.A

Author

Alexander, Kenneth

Publisher

A.S. Barnes & Co

Pub. Date

c1969

Physical Desc

109 p. : ill., map, ports.

Language

English

9) Fifty years ago at Furnace Creek Inn

Author

Miller, Ron

Series

Keepsake volume no. 17

Publisher

Death Valley Forty-niners

Pub. Date

1977

Physical Desc

13, [3] p. ; 24 cm. : illustrations

Language

English

10) Death Valley '49ers

Author

Latta, Frank F

Publisher

Bear State Books

Pub. Date

c1979

Physical Desc

xvi, 365 p. : ill., ports.

Language

English

11) Ballarat, 1897-1917: facts and folklore

Author

Hubbard, Paul B

Publisher

Hubbard, Paul & Arline

Pub. Date

c1965, 1972

Physical Desc

[4], 98 p. : ill., maps, ports.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Online Content

Description

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Ballarat was chosen as an historical landmark monument project.

12) Deadly details: a guide to some causes of death listed on death certificates

Author

Lay, Patricia

Language

English

Formats

Book, Online Content

Description

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The technical terms for the causes of death are explained to layman's terms.

13) The Jayhawkers of Death Valley

Author

Ellenbecker, John G

Publisher

J.G. Ellenbecker

Pub. Date

1938.

Physical Desc

1 online resource (132 pages, [1] folded leaf) : portraits

Language

English

Description

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The account of an overland journey made in 1848-49 by thirty-six young men from Galesburg, Illinois, to the Pacific coast. Their route through Death Valley cost 13 lives. Author interviewed descendants of the survivors.

14) Death dictionary: over 5,500 clinical, legal, literary and vernacular terms

Author

Quigley, Christine

Publisher

McFarland & Co

Pub. Date

c1994

Physical Desc

xi, 195 p.

Language

English

15) A grim almanac of Shropshire

Publisher

History Press

Pub. Date

Physical Desc

191, [1] p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Language

English

Description

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A day-by-day catalogue of 366 macabre moments from the county's past. Featured are such diverse tales as mining disasters, suicides, miscarriages of justice, axe murders, executions and tragic accidents.--Publisher's description.

16) Obituaries in American culture

Author

Hume, Janice

Publisher

University Press of Mississippi

Pub. Date

c2000

Physical Desc

198 p.

Language

English

Description

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"This books surveys more than 8,000 newspaper obituaries from 1818 to 1930 to show what they reveal about American culture. In memorializing individual citizens, these obits from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries make a public expression of our values. Far from being staid or morbid, these death notices offer a lively look at a changing America. They offer hints also about the way Americans have viewed death...." -- Back cover.