Editing Death Valley (section)

==History==
Death Valley is home to the [[Timbisha]] tribe of [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]], formerly known as the Panamint Shoshone, who have inhabited the valley for at least the past millennium. The Timbisha name for the valley, ''tümpisa'', means "rock paint" and refers to the [[red ocher]] paint that can be made from a type of [[clay]] found in the valley. Some families still live in the valley at Furnace Creek. Another village was in Grapevine Canyon near the present site of [[Scotty's Castle]]. It was called ''maahunu'' in the [[Timbisha language]], whose meaning is uncertain, although it is known that ''hunu'' means 'canyon'.<ref>Jon P. Dayley, ''Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Dictionary'', University of California Publications in Linguistics Volume 116 (1989, University of California Press), page 89.</ref>

The valley received its English name in 1849 during the [[California Gold Rush]]. It was called Death Valley by prospectors<ref>{{cite book|last=Lingenfelter|first=Richard E.|author2=Dwyer, Richard A.|title=Death Valley Lore, Classic Tales of Fantasy, Adventure and Mystery|location=Reno|publisher=University of Nevada Press|year=1988|isbn=0-87417-136-9}}</ref> and others who sought to cross the valley on their way to the gold fields, after 13 pioneers perished from one early expedition of wagon trains.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Manly|first1=William Lewis|title=Death Valley in '49|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12236|via=Project Gutenberg|publisher=The Pacific Tree and Vine Co.|date=1894}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Reynolds|first=Jerry|title=Paradise Found|url=https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/signal/reynolds/part19.html|publisher=Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society|access-date=October 7, 2017}}</ref> During the 1850s, gold and silver were extracted in the valley. In the 1880s, [[borax]] was discovered and extracted by [[Twenty-mule team|mule-drawn wagons]].

Death Valley National Monument was proclaimed on February 11, 1933, by President [[Herbert Hoover]], placing the area under federal protection. In 1994, the monument was redesignated as [[Death Valley National Park]], as well as being substantially expanded to include Saline and Eureka Valleys.