What to see in America . nts whoattempted to pass through it in 1849. It was formerly thebed of a salt lake. Several watercourses enter it but onlycontain water after heavy rains, which are rare. The air is sodry in this Valley of Burning Silence that dew never storms and dust whirlwinds are common. In summerthe thermometer sometimes records on successive days onehundred and twenty-five degrees in the shade. The valleywas the scene of a borax stampede in 1852, and pros-pectors went crazy from the heat and died on the lonely sands,and there their bleaching bones were found later. Bor
What to see in America . nts whoattempted to pass through it in 1849. It was formerly thebed of a salt lake. Several watercourses enter it but onlycontain water after heavy rains, which are rare. The air is sodry in this Valley of Burning Silence that dew never storms and dust whirlwinds are common. In summerthe thermometer sometimes records on successive days onehundred and twenty-five degrees in the shade. The valleywas the scene of a borax stampede in 1852, and pros-pectors went crazy from the heat and died on the lonely sands,and there their bleaching bones were found later. Boraxexists in Death Valley in inexhaustible quantities, and isnow carried away by railroad from Ludlow. Formerly it wasconveyed by the well-advertised twenty-mule team, whichdrew a wagon with a capacity of ten tons across the blisteringplains. In this vicinity is San Bernardino County, the larg-est in the United States. It has an area two and one halftimes that of the state of Massachusetts. > 486 What to See in America. Summit of Mt. Whitney Los Angeles came intobeing as a Mexican settle-ment in 1781, and forscores of years was a slov-enly quarrelsome villagewith scarcely a savinggrace. Education beganin 1790, with a villageschool whose master re-ceived one hundred andforty dollars a year. AnAmerican force enteredthe city August 13, 1846,and raised the Stars andStripes. The frightened inhabitants had fled to the neigh-boring ranches, but returned to their homes before night,attracted by the irresistible strains of a brass band. A gar-rison of fifty men was left in charge, but the commandermade himself unpopular by interfering with the amusementsof the people, and a revolt was organized. Then a Mexicangeneral with three hundred men appeared, and the garrisonsurrendered after holding the place less than two reconquest took place in January. One of the first thingsthe Americans did was to shorten the Spanish name, Pueblode la Reina de los Angeles (Town of the Queen of t
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