[Glasscock, Carl Burgess, and Court E. Kunze]:

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THE DEATH VALLEY CHUCK-WALLA. VOL. 1, NO. 6. A single issue of one of the rarest of California periodicals. The Death Valley Chuck-Walla was the brainchild of Carl Glasscock and Court Kunze, two young journalists with a connection to the copper mining boomtown of Greenwater, located in the mountains rising east of Death Valley. It was subsidized by Kunze's brother, Arthur, who was heavily involved in mining in the region and who laid out the town. A mining boom hit Greenwater in 1906, and its population quickly grew, estimated by the Chuck-Walla as high as 2,000. But the boom quickly turned to bust, and by 1909 Greenwater was on the way to becoming a ghost town, many of the buildings moved to Shoshone or other boom towns. Richard Lingenfelter has called the Death Valley Chuck-Walla "Greenwater's real claim to fame...without question the liveliest, most entertaining little paper that ever came out of the desert country."Named after the large lizard found in arid regions of the American Southwest, the Death Valley Chuck-Walla described itself as "a magazine for men...published on the desert at the brink of Death Valley. Mixing the dope, cool from the mountains and hot from the desert, and withal putting out a concoction with which you can do as you damn please as soon as you have paid for it." Initially costing a dime (but rising to fifteen cents with the larger-format final issue), the magazine carried news on local mines and prominent mine owners, essays, mining lore, and poe

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