Legacy
Manly rescued several families of pioneers from Death Valley during the 1849 California Gold Rush. For this reason, three points of interest in Death Valley bear his name: the Manly Beacon near Zabriskie Point, the Manly Peak, situated at South between Panamint Valley and the Death Valley, and Lake Manly, the ancient dried lake in Death Valley.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)