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Description:
Name proposed, 1925, by Sierra Club for lake northwest of Mount Whitney (altitude, 11,470), and for creek leading therefrom to junction Meadow in Kern CaƱon. In 1881 a peak in this vicinity was named for W. B. Wallace, but the name never became well known. The name Mount Wallace has long been established as one of the Evolution Group, and it seems undesirable to duplicate the name among the mountain peaks.
William B. Wallace, born in Missouri, 1849; family came to California same year; settled in Placerville; attended school in Sacramento County; graduated State Normal School; taught school in Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador counties; came to Tulare County, 1876, and settled in Visalia, 1891; admitted to bar, 1882; district attorney, Tulare County, 1884-1886; judge of the Superior Court, Tulare County, since 1899; for many years visited the Kings, Kern, and Kaweah regions of the High Sierra annually. (See, W. B. Wallace: A Night on Mount Whitney, in Mount Whitney Club Journal, May, 1902, pp. 1-12.)
From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar
Trips:
- July 16, 2013-JMT: Sherri and Gary
- August 2007-JMT: Sherri and Andrea
- June 26, 2014 - Ten day trip along the High Sierra Trail and Colby Pass
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References:
- Sequoia Foundation - History of Judge William Wallace
- Sequoia Foundation - Another History
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