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Tecopa

Tecopa

Census-designated place in CaliforniaWikipedia

Search complete. 16 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Tecopa".

Sep 12, 2026

Claire Vaye WatkinsGUEST
5:16
Sure.
Claire Vaye WatkinsGUEST
5:16
I live, um, in the eastern Mojave Desert, about halfway between Las Vegas and Death Valley, in a little town called Tecopa, where I grew up.
Claire Vaye WatkinsGUEST
5:27
It's not for everybody.
Claire Vaye WatkinsGUEST
5:29
It's about-
David WalesNARRATOR
79:42
for the stratified rocks alone.
David WalesNARRATOR
79:44
The dissected playa or lake beds in Amargosa Valley between Shoshone and Tecopa contain elephant remains that are Pleistocene.
David WalesNARRATOR
79:54
Rainbow Mountain is one of the geological showplaces of the Death Valley region.
David WalesNARRATOR
79:59
Here the Amargosa River has cut a canyon a thousand feet deep.

1 HR 38 MINS LATER

David WalesNARRATOR
178:28
I called right.
David WalesNARRATOR
178:30
"Can't be but one answer.
David WalesNARRATOR
178:31
I was sitting in the wrong seat." Sam Flake died suddenly at Tecopa Hot Springs in 1949.
David WalesNARRATOR
178:38
The village of Tecopa is 11 miles south of Shoshone.

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