Death Valley '49ers finally discovered and rescued by Mexican Californios cowboys from Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando, located near present-day Santa Clarita Valley. Death Valley '49ers The Death Valley '49ers were a group of pioneers from the Eastern United States that endured a long and difficult journey during the late 1840s California Gold Rush to prospect in the Sutter's Fort area of the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada in California. Their route from Utah went through the Great Basin Desert in Nevada, and Death Valley and the Mojave Desert in Southern California, in attempting to reach the Gold Country. On January 24, 1848, James
Death Valley Days on the Grit network in the United States. Two episodes of "Death Valley Days" are shown weekdays beginning at 6:35 p.m. Eastern on the Encore Westerns Channel. In the 1955–1956 season, NBC offered "Frontier", an anthology Western series similar to "Death Valley Days" hosted by Walter Coy. Though "Frontier", a springboard for the Western actor Jack Elam, was nominated for an Emmy Award, it was cancelled after a single season. Death Valley Days Death Valley Days is an American radio and television anthology series featuring true stories of the old American West, particularly the Death Valley area. Created in 1930