Tuesday, October 22, 2013

California's El Paso Mountains..

The scenery varies from the truly stunning to the merely intriguing.    

Native peoples made their homes here for thousands of years; during the mid-nineteenth century, prospectors came to the area in search of gold.  Eventually, small towns sprang up.  Most of them have vanished, but a few remnants and some old cabins remain.  Abandoned mines dot the hills. Their rotting head frames stand like silent sentinels.

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