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Smith Mountain is a 5,915-foot peak in the Black Mountains of the Amargosa Range within Death Valley National Park in California. Its name honors Francis Marion "Borax" Smith, whose Pacific Coast Borax Company was closely connected to Death Valley’s mining history, linking the mountain to the region’s long association with borax and mineral development.
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