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| | Death Valley - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Death Valley was named by gold seekers who undertook to cross this desolate region in 1849 on their way to the California gold fields. |
| | The valley yielded gold and silver in the 1850s, and in the 1880s borax was discovered and taken out by mule-drawn wagons. |
| | Death Valley National Park, 3,367,628 acres (1,363,412 hectares), a protected region of Death Valley, was established as a national monument in 1933 and designated a national park in 1994. |
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