Sierra Nevada

“On our way through the Sierra Nevada the train was delayed for a fall of snow and rocks to be cleared from the tracks-the first of several such delays over the course of the entire journey.”

Beacon Street Mourning

“From the south to the Sierra Nevada stretch these pampas in ever-rolling waves of tussock grass, thorn bushes, guanacos, and mirages.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

“So he had gathered some exact coleopterous data from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Appalachians of North Carolina, the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of Colombia, the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, and from Hawaii, Saint Helena, the Seychelles, and Bermuda, among other places.”

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“One day I looked down into the Fissures, so called, giddy, suicide-provoking rents; and more than once, on the Wawona road, I skirted two of those beautiful Sierra Nevada meadows, so feelingly celebrated by Mr. Muir, and so surprising and grateful to all new-comers in these parts.”

On Foot in the Yosemite

“The fact that the Sierra Nevada was continually kept in mind as the barrier between Utah and California, may have given an occasion to call the adjacent territory east of California, Nevada, though the name does not come into prominence until 1860.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman

“Clif Bar is named after my father, Clifford, who was my childhood hero and companion through the Sierra Nevada mountain range.”

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