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Death valley in '49. Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green mountains to the gold mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men

by William Lewis Manly · 1852

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Manly traversed Death Valley for 12 months in 1849, and was one of the few who lived to tell the tale.

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