20 Mule Team Days in Death Valley

by Harold O. Weight

Overview

“The saga of the great mule teams and giant wagons that are today’s romantic symbol of Death Valley began long before the first muleskinner piloted his lumbering borax freighters out of the Big Sink. Its roots were in that night when Aaron and Rosie Winters crouched in their darkened camp at Furnace Creek and read their future in the green-flickering flame of burning borax. But its seed went farther back.”

First published in 1955, this is a wonderful book on the mule team days in California’s Death Valley during the 19th century. It contains observations on the natural history of mules and muleskinners, and the mining of desert borax. There is also a reprint of Henry G. Hanks’ Report on Death Valley from 1883.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789120240
Publisher:	Borodino Books
Publication date:	02/27/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	67
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Harold O. Weight was an American author and magazine editor. Formerly a staff editor at Desert Magazine, together with Lucile Weight, in November 1950 the duo became the principal editors of Calico Print, a monthly (later bi-monthly) periodical of the mid-20th century, containing tales and trails of the desert west. The Calico Print was discontinued at the end of 1953, and the Weights concentrated on writing books on desert history, including: Lost Mines of Death Valley (1953); Twenty Mule Team Days in Death Valley (1955); Rhyolite, Lost Ship of the Desert (1959); The Ghost City of Golden Dreams (1959); Lost Mines of Old Arizona (1959); and Greenwater (1969).