Places: CA-Vermillion

Vermillion Cliffs-10,167 ' (Graveyard Peak)  (37.4249391, -118.9259546)
Vermillion Canyon-4,101 ' (Centennial Canyon)  (36.2557731, -117.8406325
Vermillion Valley Resort-7,677' (Graveyard Peak)  (37.3768867,     -119.0123415)


Description:
Named by Theodore S. Solomons and Leigh Bierce, September, 1894. (S.C.B., 1895, II:6, p. 227.)   From Place Names of the High Sierra (1926) by Francis P. Farquhar

Mono Pass-Vermillion Valley. We crossed the summit that day. As we approached it, it  seemed impassable—great banks of snow, above which rose great walls and precipices of granite—but a little side canyon, invisible from the front, let us through. The pass is very high, nearly or quite twelve thousand feet on the summit. The horses cross over the snow. So far as I know it is the highest pass crossed by horses in North America. There is no regular trail, but Indians had taken horses over it before the soldiers did. The region about the pass is desolate in the extreme—snow and rock, or granite sand, constitute the landscape.  From Up and Down California by William Brewer, Book 5 Chapter 3

August 4, yesterday, we came down the valley to this camp, eighteen miles. In places the canyon widens into a broad valley. There are many beautiful spots, but they have been rarely seen by white men before.7  It is the stronghold of Indians; they are seldom molested here, and here they come when hunted out of the valleys. We saw their signs everywhere; their fires and smokes on the cliffs near showed their presence, but we saw not a man, woman, or child.   From Up and Down California by William Brewer, Book 5 Chapter 3

From GNIS:

• Vermillion Cliffs: In the Sierra Nevada, 47 km (29 mi) west-northwest of Bishop. Also called: Vermillion Cliffs

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