Death Valley Scotty;: The man and the myth

Biography/History. He toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, then achieved national prominence in 1905 when he chartered a special train to break the speed record from Los Angeles to Chicago. He told wild tales of gold, flaunted thick rolls of currency, fought a variety of sensational court battles, moved alternately from bum to hero and back again, an finally climaxed it all by giving his name to a strange, multimillion dollar castle in the wasteland of Death Valley's Grapevine Canyon.