Its northerly location and the fact that it was most easilyaccessible over the Panamints from the west meant that it attractedpeople primarily from southern California and the Owens Valley area. Eichbaum acceleratedthis chain of events by construction of his Stovepipe Wells resort in1926 in the upper part of Death Valley-the first tourist accommodationsin the area.
Not until the 1920s did Death Valley's generalisolation from the public end and its spectacular scenic and historicalresources open up not only to the neighboring populace but eventually topeople across the nation and around the world.
Map showing old Stovepipe Wells, Stovepipe WellsHotel, Eichbaum Toll Road route, and McLean Spring. Civilization again extends its frontier-and thegoodly company of adventurers lose one more of the rapidly vanishing'far places" of the earth. Soon the eye of the ubiquitous tourist will view withunconcern its legendary terrors and gaze in perfect comfort and safetyupon its grim wonders. INVENTORY OF HISTORICAL RESOURCES THE WEST SIDEĭeath Valley, land of terrible thirst, whose strangebeauty and unique geology long have been associated with romance andmystery-and strange tales of heroism and lingering death-is about tolose its distinction as one of the few remaining regions of the globeknown only to the adventuring trail breaker, the hardy prospector andthe perspiring borax worker.
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