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Scott is the subject of the 1955 episode, "Death Valley Scotty," on the syndicated television anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. The actor Jack Lomas (1911–1959) played Scotty, who in 1905 had commissioned the "Scott Special," a passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
The cover of a booklet released by the railway to commemorate the Scott Special.Theodore Roosevelt is depicted on a horse, though he did not witness the event.. The Scott Special, also known as the Coyote Special, the Death Valley Coyote or the Death Valley Scotty Special, was a one-time, record-breaking passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) from Los ...
Scotty's Castle (also known as Death Valley Ranch) is a two-story Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style villa located in the Grapevine Mountains of northern Death Valley in Death Valley National Park, California, US. [3] Scotty's Castle is named for gold prospector Walter E. Scott, although Scott never owned it, nor is it an actual ...
Albert Mussey Johnson (May 31, 1872 – January 7, 1948), was a millionaire who served for many years as president of the National Life Insurance Company, built Scotty's Castle in Death Valley, and was variously partner, friend, and dupe of infamous Wild West con man Death Valley Scotty, for whose outrageous antics he later served as financier.
Death Valley National Park, whose roads and trails were scarred and flooded by August storms, will probably reopen Oct. 15, rangers say. ... Scotty's Castle has been closed and under repair since ...
Bessilyn Johnson (January 14, 1871 – April 22, 1943 [1]), known also as "Bessie" or "Mabel", was the wife of the Chicago millionaire Albert Johnson, a man who was variously the partner, friend and dupe of the famed American Old West figure Death Valley Scotty.
As temperatures swelled to 128 degrees, Death Valley National Park rangers got a call that a group of six motorcyclists were in distress.All available medics rushed to the scene, and rangers ...
“That was Death Valley. That was the place where opponents’ dreams come to die.” Les Miles said that after beating Ole Miss at home in 2014, but the statement still holds true in 2022.