How did Death Valley in the US get its name?

Question: How did Death Valley in the US get its name!?
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Settlers to southern California coined the name because of it's rough, dry and often hot climate!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Death Valley was given its forbidding name by a group of pioneers lost here in the winter of 1849-1850!. Even though, as far as we know, only one of the group died here, they all assumed that this valley would be their grave!. They were rescued by two of their young men, William Lewis Manly and John Rogers, who had learned to be scouts!. As the party climbed out of the valley over the Panamint Mountains, one of the men turned, looked back, and said “goodbye, Death Valley!.”Www@QuestionHome@Com