Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theme of the north wall is derived from the ancient Niebelung Legend and is symbolic of greed for power and its resultant oppression of humanity. The lunette above the door represents the cavern of Niebelheim. The dwarfs who inhabit this underground region are working to create the destructive wealth of the world, symbolized in the legend by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold, for their ruler, Alberich, who is lashing them on to greater labors...
...first white men to see Death Valley searched for gold while fleeing for their lives, thereby setting a pattern that prospectors into that dismal region have followed ever since. On Christmas Day, 1849, a party of emigrants in 27 wagons known as the Sand-Walking Company, lost while trying to find a short cut from Salt Lake City to San Bernardino, Calif., entered the Valley by way of Furnace Creek and never got out. Ahead of the Sand-Walkers there was a band of young men, traveling in 20 wagons, unencumbered by women or children, known as the Jayhawkers...
Last week Dane Coolidge made the Jayhawkers' tragedy the starting point of a rambling, formless but interesting account of the perils of gold-hunting in the hottest region on earth, the 500 square miles of volcanic rock, salt deposits, borax mines, poison springs and complete desolation that make up Death Valley. Divided into eleven brief chapters and illustrated with 17 excellent photographs by the author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like...
Still lost, the Breyfogle is generally thought to have been in a region where several rich mines were later located, is believed by Death Valley Scotty to have been buried by cloudbursts...
When he died he left instructions to be buried near a famed Death Valley pioneer, with this epitaph: "Here Lies Shorty Harris, A Single Blanket Jackass Prospector." The Author- Unlike most authors of Western stories, Dane Coolidge knows the region he has written of in such romances as Snake Bit Jones, Rawhide Johnny, Gun Smoke, some 30 other books. Born in Natick, Mass, in 1873, he was taken to California in 1877, entered Stanford at the age of 21, with a job as field collector working on mammals and reptiles. Since then he has collected live animals...