[Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Golden Canyon] [Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. One of the famous Twenty Mule Teams.] [Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Here boomed and busted the C. C. Julian swindle. Great names and great banks were shamefully involved.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Yellow Aster Mine (foreground) made owners rich. Randsburg in the background.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Belle Springs (Agua Tomaso) on old Salt Lake trail. Camp site of John C. Fremont.] [Illustration: Ralph Jacobus Fairbanks, outstanding pioneer, every man’s friend.] [Illustration: Dobe Charlie Nels. He saw Bodie boom and die.] [Illustration: Bodie, hellroarer from cemetery. Now another ghost town.] [Illustration: Seldom-seen Slim, colorful desert character.] [Illustration: Senator Charles Brown, benevolent overlord of Death Valley.] [Illustration: Panamint Tom, noted Piute, brother of Hungry Bill, Indian Chief] [Illustration: Where these wickiups were, now stands luxurious Furnace Creek Inn.] [Illustration: Courtesy Frasher’s Photo. Pomona, Calif. Darwin Falls] [Illustration: First House in Shoshone, built by Cub Lee.] [Illustration: Shorty Harris and his cabin at Ballarat, Panamint Valley.] [Illustration: Jim Butler, the discoverer of Tonopah Silver.] [Illustration: Sir Harry Oakes, booted off a train one day, discovered one of the world’s richest mines the next.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Beatty, Nevada. Bare Mountain in distance.] [Illustration: “Ma” and “Dad” Fairbanks. He was known to the Indians as Long Man.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Old Road Sign in Emigrant Wash.] Townsend Pass → ← Skidoo 7 M. [Illustration: Rock resting on gravel, gravel on sand. Here Quon Sing, heathen, created an oasis, was chased off by Christian’s guns.] [Illustration: Death Valley Scotty on his native heath.] [Illustration: Charles and Stella Brown, Shoshone.] [Illustration: Station at Rhyolite, Nevada, long a ghost town.] [Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Monument in Death Valley honors Shorty Harris.] BURY ME BESIDE JIM DAYTON IN THE VALLEY WE LOVED. ABOVE ME WRITE: “HERE LIES SHORTY HARRIS, A SINGLE BLANKET JACKASS PROSPECTOR.”—EPITAPH REQUESTED BY SHORTY (FRANK) HARRIS BELOVED GOLD HUNTER. 1856-1834. HERE JAS. DAYTON, PIONEER, PERISHED 1898. TO THESE TRAILMAKERS WHOSE COURAGE MATCHES THE FOUNDERS OF THE LAND THIS BIT OF EARTH IS DEDICATED FOREVER. [Illustration: Pete Harmon, prospector. He walked more than 400 miles in July to visit Shorty Harris when he heard that he was ill.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD. O. WEIGHT Calico, Ghost Town]