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Prospectors and Pioneers
Prospectors and Pioneers After descending into the plains and marching a short distance in search of Indians, they discovered, about fifteen miles from the ... officers. AND THEN CAME THE MINERS Shortly after news of Lt. Moore’s observations (and ore samples) spread throughout the mining community, the first prospectors descended into the Mono Basin. Leroy Vining and a ...
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Natural History of Mono Lake
Kutzadika’a People Prospectors and Pioneers 1941-Present In the middle distance there rests upon the desert plain what appears to be a wide sheet of burnished metal, so even and brilliant is its ... Israel C. Russell Quaternary History of the Mono Valley, 1889 A RICH COMMUNITY Mono Lake and its surrounding watershed encompass a unique region in California. Sagebrush, Jeffrey pines, volcanoes, tufa ...
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Land Use History of the Upper Gunnison Basin, Colorado
It was gold and silver that brought prospectors to the Upper Gunnison Basin in the 1860s, and the rush in the 1880s resulted in the rise and fall of numerous mining ... timber harvest supplied lumber and fuel for the pioneers, and extensive clearing circled each settlement. Cattle were introduced in the 1870s and ranching continues today. Cattle subsist on range by summer, and the impacts ...
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Mark Twain in Unionville, Nevada LiteraryTraveler.com
One of these dreamers was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, later ... 't walk down Unionville Road without thinking of the pioneers buried in the nearby cemetery with epitaphs like "killed by Indians." These men and women walked down the same dirt road I ...
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