Death Valley 2022/23

[Beardilocks]

I also stopped at this petroglyph site.  It seems it had once been more well known, as there's an old sign there telling me to not "further vandalize" the site.  Which felt oddly accusatory towards me personally.  lol. 



Cool bird I believe.  You don't see a lot of those in DV.






Also found this, one of the older "historic" signatures that I've seen in the park.  (Other than some of the suspicious, potentially back-dated signature from the original party that bumbled through in '49, and subsequently came back later).  Someone oddly took the trouble to chip out the first part of the name.  Or used it for target practice with some very small rounds.  Looks like maybe "TS Shaw"? 


The only Shaw I get on Google (beyond the Shaw Brothers weird old kung fu movies) is Frank Shaw and he didn't appear until later with the 20 Mule Team hoopla.  My handy dandy Lingenfelter book talks of a Thomas Jefferson Shaw who arrived in the valley and started mining in 1866 (later saving a number of people from the Wheeler expedition).  

I'm really not sure who the hell was even in DV in 1855 (unless of course it's a fake).  Maybe it's not even "Shaw"...  Any ideas out there?