https://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&feed=atom&action=historyMount Observation - Revision history2024-03-28T17:59:53ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.40.2https://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&diff=10275&oldid=prevCxbrx: Text replacement - "http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:" to "https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/"2021-12-28T20:30:41Z<p>Text replacement - "http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:" to "https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/summary/"</p>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&diff=10103&oldid=prevCxbrx: McNamey Creek could be another name for McNamara Creek, see Negro Creek2021-05-05T05:14:11Z<p>McNamey Creek could be another name for McNamara Creek, see <a href="/wiki/index.php/Negro_Creek" title="Negro Creek">Negro Creek</a></p>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&diff=10102&oldid=prevCxbrx: Link to Atlas Fredonyer2021-05-05T05:11:44Z<p>Link to <a href="/wiki/index.php/Atlas_Fredonyer" title="Atlas Fredonyer">Atlas Fredonyer</a></p>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&diff=9935&oldid=prevCxbrx: Confusion about Mount Observation.2019-05-18T22:20:30Z<p>Confusion about Mount Observation.</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/print/40884 print version of the above] describes a letter from Milleson that appeared in the April 30 1855 Sacramento Daily Union titled "[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18550430.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Fredonyer's Pass-A Description of the Mountains in that Region by Dr. Fredonyer].":</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The [https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/print/40884 print version of the above] describes a letter from Milleson that appeared in the April 30 1855 Sacramento Daily Union titled "[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18550430.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Fredonyer's Pass-A Description of the Mountains in that Region by Dr. Fredonyer].":</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Being weary of proceeding so far to the northward part of the company and myself determined to take a direct west course as possible, and force a passage over the Sierra Nevada at any point rather than make the great circuit by Lassen's Pass. For this purpose we pursued our journey up the Canon Valley, near a SW direction, over a sterile but interesting district, covered with innumerable little pieces of obsidian of different colors; about midway in the valley we passed through a volcanic causeway varying from one to two hundred feet in width and over a mile in length, with perpendicular walls fifteen feet high. The valley on the north and western sides is lined by a ridge of basaltic cliffs, increasing in height and grandeur until they reach the head of the valley at Ladder Canon, and sixteen miles distant from the mouth of High Rock Canon.'</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"Being weary of proceeding so far to the northward part of the company and myself determined to take a direct west course as possible, and force a passage over the Sierra Nevada at any point rather than make the great circuit by Lassen's Pass. For this purpose we pursued our journey up the Canon Valley, near a SW direction, over a sterile but interesting district, covered with innumerable little pieces of obsidian of different colors; about midway in the valley we passed through a volcanic causeway varying from one to two hundred feet in width and over a mile in length, with perpendicular walls fifteen feet high. The valley on the north and western sides is lined by a ridge of basaltic cliffs, increasing in height and grandeur until they reach the head of the valley at Ladder Canon, and sixteen miles distant from the mouth of High Rock Canon.'</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"To the south of Ladder Canon lies Mount Observation, rising to an elevation of nearly three thousand feet above the planes of the interior basin of a conical shape, the summit and flanks entirely destitute of vegetation. "</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"To the south of Ladder Canon lies Mount Observation, rising to an elevation of nearly three thousand feet above the planes of the interior basin of a conical shape, the summit and flanks entirely destitute of vegetation."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Unfortunately, this does not match the GNIS location of Mount Observation, which shows a prominence of about 300 feet, not 3000 feet.</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A similar letter appears in a 1855 California state government document about a wagon road:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RWlBAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA72-IA16&ots=5p5kPo-KvF&dq=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&pg=PA72-IA16#v=onepage&q=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&f=false Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...]," Report on the committee on Internal Improvements, p. 16, 1855.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A similar letter appears in a 1855 California state government document about a wagon road:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RWlBAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA72-IA16&ots=5p5kPo-KvF&dq=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&pg=PA72-IA16#v=onepage&q=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&f=false Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...]," Report on the committee on Internal Improvements, p. 16, 1855.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"At a point near the north end of Lower Mud Lake and opposite the Great Boiling Spring the continuity of the ridge is broken forming one of the grandest ruptures in Nature. One side of the cleft rises to the giddy height of a thousand feet with nearly a perpendicular declivity while the other inclines off in gradual retiring strata to nearly double that distance. The bottoms through that gorge are on a level with the adjoining plain and affords a free passage for the McNamey Creek through into Mud Lake. About twelve miles north of this point and a little west of the Pillars of Atlas is situated Mount Observation which rises to an elevation of three thousand feet above the plains of the Interior Basin and is of a conical shape and perfectly barren."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"At a point near the north end of Lower Mud Lake and opposite the Great Boiling Spring the continuity of the ridge is broken forming one of the grandest ruptures in Nature. One side of the cleft rises to the giddy height of a thousand feet with nearly a perpendicular declivity while the other inclines off in gradual retiring strata to nearly double that distance. The bottoms through that gorge are on a level with the adjoining plain and affords a free passage for the McNamey Creek through into Mud Lake. About twelve miles north of this point and a little west of the Pillars of Atlas is situated Mount Observation which rises to an elevation of three thousand feet above the plains of the Interior Basin and is of a conical shape and perfectly barren."</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The legend for [[Valley of the Mud Lakes]] (1861) mentions Mount Observation. However, the legend is probably referring to the Mount Observation in Lassen County because the image show Mount Observation being to the left (south) of the Granite Range.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The legend for [[Valley of the Mud Lakes]] (1861) mentions Mount Observation. However, the legend is probably referring to the Mount Observation <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(aka Observation Peak) </ins>in Lassen County because the image show Mount Observation being to the left (south) of the Granite Range<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Observation Peak is 7930 feet high and rises above the plain, which is at about 5500 feet</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mount Observation appears in the 1863 [http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1260~110042:DeGroot-s-Map-Of-Nevada-Territory-E DeGroot's map of Nevada] (David Rumsey).</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mount Observation appears in the 1863 [http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1260~110042:DeGroot-s-Map-Of-Nevada-Territory-E DeGroot's map of Nevada] (David Rumsey).</div></td></tr>
</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&diff=9934&oldid=prevCxbrx: Mount Observation in Lassen County.2019-05-18T22:12:12Z<p>Mount Observation in Lassen County.</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"At a point near the north end of Lower Mud Lake and opposite the Great Boiling Spring the continuity of the ridge is broken forming one of the grandest ruptures in Nature. One side of the cleft rises to the giddy height of a thousand feet with nearly a perpendicular declivity while the other inclines off in gradual retiring strata to nearly double that distance. The bottoms through that gorge are on a level with the adjoining plain and affords a free passage for the McNamey Creek through into Mud Lake. About twelve miles north of this point and a little west of the Pillars of Atlas is situated Mount Observation which rises to an elevation of three thousand feet above the plains of the Interior Basin and is of a conical shape and perfectly barren."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"At a point near the north end of Lower Mud Lake and opposite the Great Boiling Spring the continuity of the ridge is broken forming one of the grandest ruptures in Nature. One side of the cleft rises to the giddy height of a thousand feet with nearly a perpendicular declivity while the other inclines off in gradual retiring strata to nearly double that distance. The bottoms through that gorge are on a level with the adjoining plain and affords a free passage for the McNamey Creek through into Mud Lake. About twelve miles north of this point and a little west of the Pillars of Atlas is situated Mount Observation which rises to an elevation of three thousand feet above the plains of the Interior Basin and is of a conical shape and perfectly barren."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The legend for [[Valley of the Mud Lakes]] (1861) mentions Mount Observation<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. However, the legend is probably referring to the Mount Observation in Lassen County because the image show Mount Observation being to the left (south) of the Granite Range</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The legend for [[Valley of the Mud Lakes]] (1861) mentions Mount Observation.</div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mount Observation appears in the 1863 [http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1260~110042:DeGroot-s-Map-Of-Nevada-Territory-E DeGroot's map of Nevada] (David Rumsey).</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Mount Observation appears in the 1863 [http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1260~110042:DeGroot-s-Map-Of-Nevada-Territory-E DeGroot's map of Nevada] (David Rumsey).</div></td></tr>
</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&diff=9932&oldid=prevCxbrx: fix up reference2019-05-18T22:01:38Z<p>fix up reference</p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"To the south of Ladder Canon lies Mount Observation, rising to an elevation of nearly three thousand feet above the planes of the interior basin of a conical shape, the summit and flanks entirely destitute of vegetation. "</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"To the south of Ladder Canon lies Mount Observation, rising to an elevation of nearly three thousand feet above the planes of the interior basin of a conical shape, the summit and flanks entirely destitute of vegetation. "</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A similar letter appears in a <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">federal </del>document about a wagon road:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RWlBAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA72-IA16&ots=5p5kPo-KvF&dq=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&pg=PA72-IA16#v=onepage&q=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&f=false Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...]," Report on the committee on Internal Improvements, p. 16, 1855.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>A similar letter appears in a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">1855 California state government </ins>document about a wagon road:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RWlBAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA72-IA16&ots=5p5kPo-KvF&dq=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&pg=PA72-IA16#v=onepage&q=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&f=false Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...]," Report on the committee on Internal Improvements, p. 16, 1855.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ref></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"The Pillars of Atlas the fourth range of mountains before spoken of are of volcanic origin rugged in their appearance and entirely destitute of timber."</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"The Pillars of Atlas the fourth range of mountains before spoken of are of volcanic origin rugged in their appearance and entirely destitute of timber."</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"At a point near the north end of Lower Mud Lake and opposite the Great Boiling Spring the continuity of the ridge is broken forming one of the grandest ruptures in Nature. One side of the cleft rises to the giddy <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">hight </del>of a thousand feet with nearly a perpendicular declivity while the other inclines off in gradual retiring strata to nearly double that distance. The bottoms through that gorge are on a level with the adjoining plain and affords a free passage for the McNamey Creek through into Mud Lake. About twelve miles north of this point and a little west of the Pillars of Atlas is situated Mount Observation which rises to an elevation of three thousand feet above the plains of the Interior Basin and is of a conical shape and perfectly barren."</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>"At a point near the north end of Lower Mud Lake and opposite the Great Boiling Spring the continuity of the ridge is broken forming one of the grandest ruptures in Nature. One side of the cleft rises to the giddy <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">height </ins>of a thousand feet with nearly a perpendicular declivity while the other inclines off in gradual retiring strata to nearly double that distance. The bottoms through that gorge are on a level with the adjoining plain and affords a free passage for the McNamey Creek through into Mud Lake. About twelve miles north of this point and a little west of the Pillars of Atlas is situated Mount Observation which rises to an elevation of three thousand feet above the plains of the Interior Basin and is of a conical shape and perfectly barren."</div></td></tr>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&diff=9931&oldid=prevCxbrx: Different description of the area.2019-05-18T22:00:19Z<p>Different description of the area.</p>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A similar letter appears in a federal document about a wagon road:<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=RWlBAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA72-IA16&ots=5p5kPo-KvF&dq=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&pg=PA72-IA16#v=onepage&q=%22Mount%20Observation%22%20nevada&f=false Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly ... of the Legislature of the State of California ...]," Report on the committee on Internal Improvements, p. 16, 1855.</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&diff=9930&oldid=prevCxbrx: Mount Observation appears in DeGroot 18632019-05-18T21:50:36Z<p>Mount Observation appears in DeGroot 1863</p>
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</table>Cxbrxhttps://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mount_Observation&diff=9928&oldid=prevCxbrx: Fredonyer's article2019-05-18T21:46:38Z<p>Fredonyer's article</p>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The [https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/print/40884 print version of the above] describes a letter from Milleson that appeared in the April 30 1855 Sacramento Daily Union titled "[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18550430.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 Fredonyer's Pass-A Description of the Mountains in that Region by Dr. Fredonyer].":</ins></div></td></tr>
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