timbisha: Death Valley California- Home to the Timbisha Shoshone
- 01/02/17 03:14 PM
What an adventure!... ringing in 2017 with a camping trip inside Death Valley, formally known as Timbisha before European settlers arrived in the 1800's. This trip was for sure eye opening and very educational about desert live and those who still call this desert home. So where did the name "Death Valley" come from? The name was coined by gold-seekers who passed through in 1849 and 1850. They had a difficult time, and as the survivors escaped over the Panamints (mountain range) one of them exclaimed, “Goodbye, Death Valley!” Desert life is no picnic, yet the Timbisha Shoshones lived hear for hundreds of years and still (10 comments)