This is my second entry for this week's B&W Photo Contest - Travel:
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When you think Death Valley National Park, you think desert, sand dunes, the lowest point in the United States. It is also famous for the Twenty Mule Teams that hauled borax from near Furnace Creek to Mojave where the journey would continue by train. The 10 day trip was 165 miles over rough roads. Though these teams only ran from 1883 to 1889, they have been immortalized through ad campaigns for 20-Mule-Team Borax Soap as well as the Death Valley Days radio and tv programs.
My photo is of one of the two remaining wagons in existence..this one located at the Harmony Borax Works and the other is in front of Furnace Creek Ranch. Perfect symbol of the Old West, wouldn't you say?
We visited Death Valley in the early Spring...the weather was perfect. Summer temperatures can reach up to 120 degrees fahrenheit! Yikes!
©S.A.M., 2010 (Some Artistic Musings / Samantha J. Barnes)
Shot with a Canon PowerShot S5 IS
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