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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

... fall and winter he asks for a grub-stake and lights out, and I don't see any more of him till I drive my sheep down on the prairie. That happened two years ago, and every fall you'll see three or four fellows in the edge of Death Valley, saying nothing to each other, but ostensibly hunting coyotes, and all the while looking for that nugget, which is the thing they most want ...

— Elam Storm, The Wolfer - The Lost Nugget • Harry Castlemon

... treeless and waterless as the deserts of Chihuahua, as desolate and forbidding as the Dakota Bad Lands, with a surface as torn and twisted and jagged as the lava beds of Utah, and with a summer climate like that of Death Valley in July. That is the Carso. This great table-land of rock, which begins at Gorizia, approaches close to the shores of the Adriatic between Monfalcone and Trieste, and runs southeastward into Istria, links the Alpine system with the Balkan ranges. Its ...

— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell

... regulation in New York City is copied all over the United States, notwithstanding the fact that the same law may have been passed by the city council in Winchester, Kentucky, years before and gone unnoticed. And so with Coney Island or Niagara Falls or Death Valley, or any one of a hundred other places that might be named. The fashions they originate, the ideas for which they stand sponsors, the accidents that happen in their vicinity, all have specific interest by virtue of their previous note or notoriety. And if the ...

— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer

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