Re: Emmett Harders field trip - ANSWER TIME
Posted by randall on February 14, 2002 at 11:16:18:
In Reply to: Emmett Harders field trip - QUESTION TIME posted by Joel Briggs on February 14, 2002 at 10:29:37:
I called Gina Molina at CSUSB and she sent me this info. There's an outside chance that I'll be able to make the class. I still hoping.
You may already have this info but it's all I was able to get. Hope it helps.
Ghosts in the Shadows-Mystery Trails in Death Valley’s Badlands
This class focuses on the southern Panamint Mountains of Death Valley, and discusses the men and women who came to Death Valley or other mining centers and spent their lives following the dream of one more “glory hole.” A caravan is ledto Warm Springs canyon and Striped Butte (in the hidden, 4500 ft elevation, Shangri-la Valley that thousands of tourists each year never get to see). The class covers: Death Valley 49ers lost 1996 lost German tourist Butte Valley Indians Big Talc Mines Story of Anvil Springs the Lost Mormon Mine true story of Stone CabinYou can help dedicate a commemorative historic publication, tales of Carl Mangle & his friends, Panamint Russell & his Lost Ledge of Gold and the geology of Striped Butte. Four-wheel drives or trucks preferred; however, instructors will caravan in difficult spots.
The course fee includes one night at the Desert Studies Center and a snack Friday night and breakfast and lunch Saturday. Saturday night you will camp at Death Valley’s Ghost Camp at Warm Springs Talc Mine and have a fireside potluck dinner. Instructors will cook sour dough pancakes Sunday morning (must eat one pancake to pass class).
Course No.: HIST 1035
Unit(s): 2
Schedule No.: 13708GS 13709GS
Fee: $189 $100
Day(s)/Date(s): Friday-Sunday,March 22-24 (3 days)
Time: 7 pm Friday3 pm Sunday
Location: ZZYZX-Desert Studies Center; for directions see p.
Instructor(s): Clifford Walker has studied the Native Americans since the 1960s. He is a California historian and also author of Back Door to California: Story of the Mojave River Trail and One Eye Closed, the Other Red: The California Bootlegging Years, 1999. Emmett Harder is an historian, miner, explosives expert, and author of These Canyons are Filled with Ghosts and the forthcoming book The Crimson Road.
Early Registration Deadline: March 8
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Thank you for choosing the College of Extended Learning
for your continuing education needs.
Gina C. Molina,
Program Assistant, Extension Programs
CSU, San Bernardino - College of Extended Learning
5500 University Parkway San Bernardino CA 92407
Telephone (909) 880-5976 Facsimile (909) 880-5907