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Amargosa Basin , California

Day Break Camp

I met up with Dan in 2006, and we headed out into the great Mojave Desert to try and find an old, little-known camp called Day Break.

The camp, also known as Five Points, dates from the 1880s but was most active in the early 1910s. Unfortunately, not much remains today.

Soldered food can

GPS

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