Place: CA-Lee Vining

Lee Vining-town, Creek, Peak(11,691) (Mono Craters 15', Tuolumne Meadows 15')
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“Leroy Vining and a few chosen companions, with one of Moore’s scouts as guide, went over the Sierras to the place where the gold had been found [in 1852], and established themselves on what has since been known as Vining’s Gulch or Creek.” (Bunnell: Discovery of the Yosemite, 1880, p. 278.) From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

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