Death Valley Days

When wagons break off from a wagon train and begin to run dangerously low on food and water when they become trapped in a hot desert west of Salt Lake City.

Mamie, the grocer's daughter, plans to marry the suitor who corners the local egg market.

Two people set out into the desert in search of the lost "Pegleg" Mine.

A quiet and retiring dressmaker for the dance-hall girls in a western mining camp is discovered to be Tiger Lil, a former dance-hall queen from Virginia City.

The story of Aaron Winters, his wife Rosie and their discovery of borax in Death Valley.

A young bandit outwits a determined Sheriff at every turn.

A hard-rock miner and champion driller is encouraged by a dance-hall girl to study law after he loses an arm in a shooting fracas.

A Bostonian who has married a local girl in a desert mining town refuses to invite the townspeople into his home on his wedding night, thereby instigating a three-day chivaree.

The story of Mary Helen Crosby, who -- in the company of Gen. John Bidwell, custodian of the papers admitting California to the Union -- concealed the papers in her umbrella to ensure their safe arrival at San Francisco.

A young widow from the east offers serious competition to the proprietor of a Nevada cafe when she opens a rival restaurant and discovers gold on property that she purchased from him.

A young man who was reared as an Indian after the death of his parents in Death Valley is obliged to prove his identity in order to marry the white girl he loves.

After being robbed of a large sum of money, an embittered prospector denies his wife a purple silk dress that has become a symbol of beauty in her life.

A young man adopted by a Spanish nobleman and is raised as his son and heir but he rebels and becomes a Franciscan monk; on his way to the San Gabriel Mission he gets lost and ends up in Death Valley.

Claim jumper Jennie attempts to jump the mining claim of Buck Hansen near Rhyolite, Nevada, and ends up rescuing Buck when he gets lost in Death Valley.

Two men running from a posse find a rich silver deposit, which means they must find a way to stake their claim without going to jail.

A young wife finds it difficult to adjust to life on the prairie after she and her Mormon husband move away from Salt Lake City, and she takes drastic measures to find relief.

A man arrives in Rawhide, Nev., and spends his last $10 on a town lot and the lot winds up being a gold mine.

Two slaves are given permission to go west and pan gold in order to earn their freedom.