Death Valley Scotty; Fact, Fiction and Fable

Death Valley Scotty; Fact, Fiction and Fable

No one is more closely tied to the mysterious lore of Death Valley than Walter Scott. His tales of fabulous gold mines, dangerous desperados and opulent desert castles placed him and Death Valley on the front pages of newspapers for over fifty years…kept historians endlessly occupied trying to sort out the truth from his tall tales...and helped establish himself as one of the most popular characters of the American West. Death Valley historians David and Gayle Woodruff, assume the characters of the inscrutable, “Death Valley Scotty,” and his benefactor and the real owner of Scotty's Castle, prim and scrupulous Bessie Johnson, in a free 70-minute Chautauqua performance.