2023-02-15, 02:02 PM
(2023-02-15, 12:16 AM)Beardilocks Wrote: New book I just picked up. I love it. 500 Death Valley Place Names and Their Origins.
I’ll admit I’m confused about Pacific Borax Co probably naming it in … 1832? Isn’t that kinda early?
It appears that the book is only off by one hundred years because The Pacific Borax Company was not founded until 1890. My hunch is that the company named the salt pool in 1932 three years prior to the 1935 base map publication by the NPS of the area as mentioned in the book. A book with that much trivia and details is bound to have a few errors in the contents?
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-pacificborax/
That vintage video of the Pluto Salt Pools was most likely filmed in 1938 or 1939 on a family excursion possibly with the Southern California Automobile Club.
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