Wednesday, January 7, 1970

Places: CA-Great Western Divide


Great Western Divide- (quad) (long, lat)
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Description:
Called by the Whitney Survey (Geology, 1865, p. 382) the western ridge. Shown on Le Conte map of 1893 as Great Western Ridge. On W. R. Dudley’s sketch map accompanying his account of a visit to the Kaweah Peaks in 1896 (S.C.B., 1898, II:3, opp. p. 185) it is called Western Divide. First shown as Great Western Divide on Le Conte map of 1896 in S.C.B., 1897, II:2. From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

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