[Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Wild Burro Colt] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Death Valley’s fantastic rock formations seen from Auguerreberry’s Point.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Old Harmony Borax Works, opposite Furnace Creek.] [Illustration: January 2, 1926. We camped our second night out at the Phantom City of Rhyolite.] [Illustration: Dublin Gulch, Shoshone. In these dugouts lived Joe Volmer, Dobe Charley and Jack Crowley, prospectors.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Golden Street, Rhyolite] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Bad Water, here the thirsty drank and died.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Ballarat, once an important freight station, now sand and sage.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Stables of Tufa Works used by Twenty Mule Teams, where borax was mined.] [Illustration: COURTESY HAROLD O. WEIGHT Zabriskie Ruins. Opals may be found in the canyon at right.] [Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Charcoal Pits] [Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Typical Death Valley Canyon] [Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Death Valley sand dunes] [Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Effect of prehistoric convulsions] [Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Furnace Creek wash] [Illustration: COURTESY FRASHER’S PHOTO. POMONA, CALIF. Ryan, and an abandoned borax mine.] Williams was a Baptist preacher, turned Mountain Man. He had guided Fremont through the terrors of the San Juan country and was accused of cannibalism when hunger threatened one detachment. Of Williams Kit Carson said: “In starving times, don’t walk ahead of Bill Williams.” Williams brought a band of Chaguanosos Indians to Resting Springs and made it an outpost for a horse stealing raid. With him were Pegleg Smith and Jim Beckwith, the mulatto who after having been a blacksmith with Ashley’s Fur Traders in 1821, became a famous guide, Indian Chief, trader, and scout. (Also called Beckwourth and Beckworth.) Leaving Resting Springs, they proceeded through Cajon Pass for their loot and on May 14, 1840, Juan Perez, administrator at San Gabriel Mission excited Southern California when he announced that every ranch between San Gabriel and San Bernardino had been stripped of horses. Two days later posses from every settlement in the valley started in pursuit. The raiders made it a running battle, defeated several detachments, adding the latter’s stock and grub to their plunder. Five days later, reinforcements were sent from Los Angeles, Chino, and other settlements, all under command of Jose Antonio Carrillo—ancestor of the movie celebrity, Leo Carrillo. He had “225 horses, 75 men, 49 guns with braces of pistols, 19 spears, 22 swords and sabers, and 400 cartridges.”