Panamint Valley

Known for his tall tales and a brush with the homicidal Manson family in the 1960s, Robert "Ballarat Bob" Dunlap was one of the last Death Valley prospectors who dynamited and burrowed through the Panamint Valley in search of riches.

Death Valley prospector Robert 'Ballarat Bob' Dunlap dies at 87 Phil Willon 2010

Panamint Valley, and the telegraph had never been built beyond Keeler.

McTeague 1920

They travelled leisurely to the southeast during the day, following a well-beaten cattle road, and that evening camped on a spur of some hills at the head of the Panamint Valley where there was a spring.

McTeague 1920

Not far off, across a range of hills, was the Panamint Valley, where the big cattle ranges were.

McTeague 1899

They travelled leisurely to the southeast during the day, following a well-beaten cattle road, and that evening camped on a spur of some hills at the head of the Panamint Valley where there was a spring.

McTeague 1899

Within a month after his departure from San Francisco, Marcus had "gone in on a cattle ranch" in the Panamint Valley with an Englishman, an acquaintance of Mr. Sieppe's.

McTeague 1899

News from the outside world filtered slowly into the Panamint Valley, and the telegraph had never been built beyond Keeler.

McTeague 1899

They travelled leisurely to the southeast during the day, following a well-beaten cattle road, and that evening camped on a spur of some hills at the head of the Panamint Valley where there was a spring.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886

Within a month after his departure from San Francisco, Marcus had "gone in on a cattle ranch" in the Panamint Valley with an Englishman, an acquaintance of Mr. Sieppe's.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886

News from the outside world filtered slowly into the Panamint Valley, and the telegraph had never been built beyond Keeler.

McTeague Frank Norris 1886