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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E0J_worth-bagley-bit-the-dust_Twentynine-Palms-CA.html
Worth Bagley Bit the Dust. A Marker for a Missing Marker. Worth Bagley Stone . What is it? William F. Keys carved and erected the stone to mark the site of a deadly shoot-out. After the May 11, 1943 gunfight, described by Keys as an amb…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM279U_champion-of-the-desert_Twentynine-Palms-CA.html
Minerva Hamilton Hoyt was a Pasadena, California gardener and civic leader who loved desert landscapes.
She saw beauty in the desert where others saw an empty wasteland or an opportunity for profit.
Mrs. Hoyt believed that outstanding desert lan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GUA_iron-mountain-divisional-camp_Twentynine-Palms-CA.html
Iron Mountain divisional camp was established at this site in the spring of 1942. One of eleven such camps built in the California-Arizona desert to harden and train United States troops for service on the battlefields of World War II. The first m…
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Her tireless efforts to establish Joshua Tree National Monument contributed to a heightened appreciation, not only of the Joshua Tree, but of the total desert environment.