That online source says Noorbergen's book Lost Races states
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In 1850 the American explorer Captain Ives William Walker was the first to view some of these ruins, situated in Death Valley. He discovered a city about a mile long, with the lines of the streets and the positions of the buildings still visible. At the center he found a huge rock, between 20 to 30 feet high, with the remains of an enormous structure atop it. The southern side of both the rock and the building was melted and vitrified. Walker assumed that a volcano had been responsible for this phenomenon, but there is no volcano in the area. In addition, tectonic heat could not have caused such a liquefication of the rock surface.
An associate of Captain Walker who followed up his initial exploration commented: "The whole region between the rivers Gila and San Juan is covered with remains. The ruins of cities are to be found there which must be most extensive, and they are burnt out and vitrified in part, full of fused stones and craters caused by fires which were hot enough to liquefy rock or metal. There are paving stones and houses torn with monstrous cracks. [as though they had] been attacked by a giant's fire-plough."
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William Walker was a real person -- he later led an invasion of Nicaragua and named himself president of that country.
His discovery of the ruined city in Death Valley is also noted in Robert Charroux's book One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History (p. 116)
Note: Wiki article "William Walker (filibuster)" does not mention his discovery of a ruined city in 1950 although it does say he was in California at the time.
It is not known what sources Charroux and Noorbergen used when they said what they did.)
The east face of the Panamint Mountains is said to hold an entrance to a vast network of tunnels under Death Valley and the Panamint Mountains.
Tom Wilson, Dr. Bouvee and others are said to have visited the tunnels but upon leaving could not find the entrance again
Bourke Lee's book Death Valley Men, published in 1932, speaks of two men -- Jack and Bill -- who also visited the place. Intriquingly they went to return there and were last seen climbing the east face of the Panamint Mountains, and by all accounts were never seen again by anyone of this civilization.
see also
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For information on other ancient ruins, see my blog on Mounds in North America
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