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California and Nevado, though it is mostly in California.

It lies northeast of Los Angeles about 4.5 hours by car and northwest of Las Vegas about 2 hours by car. It is at the northern reaches of the Mojave Desert and at the southern reaches of the Great Basin.

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Death Valley is on the border of California and Nevada. Its name comes from the experiences of some gold rush pioneers who took a "shortcut" near Enterprise, Utah and wandered aimlessly westward leaving the known route of the Old Spanish Trail. They stumbled into the deepest, driest, hottest valley on the continent (fortunately it was Christmas Eve so the weather was fairly pleasant). While most continued to struggle out of the valley by burning their wagons and eating their oxen and moving out on foot, two families decided another tact. They would send out two single men (John Rogers and William Lewis Manly) and wait for them to bring back supplies. For 26 long days the families waited. When the boys returned with a little one-eyed mule and some food they led the families out of the valley. When they reached one of the peaks they looked back over the scene of so much suffering and where ONE of their party died (an older ailing man named Captain Culverwell) and they said, "Goodbye Death Valley". Later William Lewis Manly told a reporter for the Los Angeles Star Newspaper and by 1861 the name first appeared on a map, hit the papers and entered the imagination of the public. And so the name drew attention and fired the imagination of everyone who heard it. Legends grew and additional names were added: The Devil's Golf Course, The Devil's Cornfield, Coffin Peak, Last Chance Canyon, Funeral Mountains, Blood Red Mountains, etc. However, the Indians knew it simply as Tumpisa or Red Rock. For the Native Americans of the Shoshone tribe the land was simply "Home."

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Death Valley is situated in California U.S ( Also the home town of The Undertaker :D)

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Death Valley is located at the border of California (u.s.a) and Nevada (u.s.a)

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death valley is located in california

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