{"id":865,"date":"2021-12-22T13:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=865"},"modified":"2021-12-22T20:35:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T20:35:43","slug":"death-valleys-lost-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/death-valleys-lost-49ers\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Valley’s Lost ’49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jefferson Hunt’s Mojave San Joaquin Company, a wagon train made up of anxious gold seekers and settlers frustrated by a late start across the desert in late 1849 join with Captain Hunt<\/a><\/em> to be guided across the Mojave Desert along the new southern route. Tensions rise with a wrong venture into the Escalante Desert and at a point east of Enterprise, and north of Mountain Meadows<\/a><\/em>, Utah, anarchy ensues and the train breaks up into two factions; those who will become lost and those who will go on as planned. Of the 107 wagons in this once large party, only seven wagons remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Furnace Creek, Death Valley National Park<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On December 22, 1849, the ‘Mojave Sand-walking Company,’ as it became known, arrived in San Bernardino, California. At the same time the remaining ‘Lost ’49ers,’ about one-quarter of those who broke away originally, were entering the desolate Death Valley and would be celebrating Christmas Day near what we know as Furnace Creek<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Death Valle<\/em><\/a>y<\/em><\/a> <\/em><\/a>i<\/em><\/a>n<\/em><\/a> <\/em><\/a>1<\/em><\/a>8<\/em><\/a>4<\/em><\/a>9<\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jefferson Hunt’s Mojave San Joaquin Company, a wagon train made up of anxious gold seekers and settlers frustrated by a late start across the desert in late 1849 join with Captain Hunt to be guided across the Mojave Desert along the new southern route. Tensions rise with a wrong venture into the Escalante Desert and … Continue reading “Death Valley’s Lost ’49ers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,53],"tags":[123,119,131,125,122,126,121,124,120,127,129,128,56,130],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-maps","tag-bennett-arcan","tag-death-valley","tag-escalante-desert","tag-harry-wade","tag-jayhawkers","tag-jefferson-hunt","tag-lost-49ers","tag-manly-rogers","tag-map","tag-mormon","tag-mormon-wagon-road","tag-old-spanish-trail","tag-salt-lake-road","tag-salt-lake-trail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}