Tecopa
Census-designated place in CaliforniaWikipedia
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Search complete. 16 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Tecopa".
Sep 12, 2026
Best Of: Life in the Mojave Desert / Director of ‘The Uprising’
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5:16Claire Vaye WatkinsGUEST
Sure.
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5:16Claire Vaye WatkinsGUEST
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.
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5:27Claire Vaye WatkinsGUEST
It's not for everybody.
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5:29Claire Vaye WatkinsGUEST
It's about-
Loafing Along Death Valley Trails A Personal Narrative Of People And Places - William Caruthers
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79:42David WalesNARRATOR
for the stratified rocks alone.
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79:44David WalesNARRATOR
The dissected playa or lake beds in Amargosa Valley between Shoshone and Tecopa contain elephant remains that are Pleistocene.
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79:54David WalesNARRATOR
Rainbow Mountain is one of the geological showplaces of the Death Valley region.
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79:59David WalesNARRATOR
Here the Amargosa River has cut a canyon a thousand feet deep.
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178:28David WalesNARRATOR
I called right.
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178:30David WalesNARRATOR
"Can't be but one answer.
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178:31David WalesNARRATOR
I was sitting in the wrong seat." Sam Flake died suddenly at Tecopa Hot Springs in 1949.
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178:38David WalesNARRATOR
The village of Tecopa is 11 miles south of Shoshone.