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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

... third-largest country by size (after Russia and Canada) and by population (after China and India); Mt. McKinley is highest point in North America and Death Valley the ...

— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... 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

Words linked to "Death Valley" : Golden State, Silver State, Battle Born State, ca, Nevada, Mojave Desert, California, Sagebrush State, Mohave, NV, desert, Mohave Desert, Mojave, Calif.