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Death Valley

noun

A desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America.

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"Death valley" Quotes from Famous Books

... enterprising and irrepressible young man named Will Frakes took the idea into his head that he must catch some mountain sheep alive, and do it alone and single-handed. Presently he located a few Ovis nelsoni in the Avawatz Mountains near Death Valley, California. Finding a water hole to which mountain sheep occasionally came at night to drink, he set steel traps around it. One by one he caught five sheep of various ages, but chiefly adults. The story of this interesting performance is told in Outdoor Life magazine for ...

— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday

... New Mexico or Death Valley," exclaimed Harry, "I feel like a piece of butter rolled up in a ...

— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... who runs this honkatonk—he's one of 'em. Banker's another. You remember when them Wall Street guys hired 'Panamint Charlie' Wantage to splurge East in a private car scatterin' double eagles all the way and hoorayin' about the big mine he had in Death Valley?" ...

— Louisiana Lou • William West Winter

... he murmured, reproachfully. "The Central Office must be bughouse to send you out looking like such a gillie. You couldn't get within two blocks of a sidewalk crap game in them Tony Pastor props. The recent Mr. Scotty from Death Valley has got you beat a crosstown block in the way of Elizabethan scenery and mechanical accessories. Let it be skiddoo for yours. Nay, I know of no gilded halls where one may bet a patrol wagon on ...

— Strictly Business • O. Henry

... the Sahara or our own Death Valley. One extreme is as bad as the other. Some time I hope your father will take me along on one of those treasure hunts. I should like to be in at the finding of a pirate ship. It would make a boy out ...

— A Splendid Hazard • Harold MacGrath