The Panamint Range is a short rugged fault-block mountain range in the northern Mojave Desert , within Death Valley National Park in Inyo County , eastern California . A small part of the southern end of the range is in San Bernardino County . Dr. Darwin French is credited as applying the term Panamint in 1860 during his search for the fabled Gunsight Lode.
7-635: The origin of the name is the Paiute or Koso word Panümünt or Pa (water) and nïwïnsti (person). The range runs north–south for approximately 100 miles (160 km) through Inyo County , forming the western wall of Death Valley and separating it from the Panamint Valley to the west. The range is part of the Basin and Range Province , at the western end of the Great Basin . The highest peak in
14-585: A sky island habitat of the Mojave Desert , with more precipitation and temperature variation than the desert floor and hills, there are various plant and animal species endemic to the Panamint Range. The Panamint Mining District is on the western side of the Panamint Range. Panamint City (est. 1873) was a mining town in the district, formerly in the central section of the range. The historic mining community of Ballarat (est. 1890s), also in
21-907: Is closely related to the Mono language . In 2005, the Northwest Indian Language Institute of the University of Oregon formed a partnership to teach Northern Paiute and Kiksht in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation schools. In 2013, Washoe County, Nevada became the first school district in Nevada to offer Northern Paiute classes, offering an elective course in the language at Spanish Springs High School. Classes have also been taught at Reed High School in Sparks, Nevada . Elder Ralph Burns of
28-576: The Argus Range . The ten beehive shaped masonry structures, about 25 feet (7.6 m) tall, are the best known surviving examples of such charcoal kilns in the western U.S. Northern Paiute language Northern Paiute / ˈ p aɪ uː t / , endonym Numu or nɨɨmɨ, also known as Paviotso , is a Western Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, which according to Marianne Mithun had around 500 fluent speakers in 1994. It
35-556: The Pyramid Lake Paiute Reservation worked with University of Nevada, Reno linguist Catherine Fowler to help develop a spelling system. The alphabet uses 19 letters. They have also developed a language-learning book, “Numa Yadooape,” and a series of computer disks of language lessons. Northern Paiute's phonology is highly variable, and its phonemes have many allophones. Northern Paiute is an agglutinative language, in which words use suffix complexes for
42-635: The district, is now a ghost town . The Gold Hill Mining District (est. 1875) was in the southwestern section of the range, at the northeast end of Butte Valley. The Wildrose Charcoal Kilns (completed 1877) are ruins of charcoal kilns located near Wildrose Canyon in the northern range and within Death Valley National Park. They were built in 1877 by the Modock Consolidated Mining Company, to provide fuel for smelters near their lead and silver mines in
49-536: The range is Telescope Peak , with an elevation of 11,043 feet (3,366 m). Both Mount Whitney above the Owens Valley and Badwater Basin in Death Valley are visible from certain vantage points in the Panamint Range, making it one of few places where one can simultaneously see both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States . Dante's View east of Death Valley is another. Being
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