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1) Echo Summit
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Echo Summit played a major role in early California or Nevada history. Beginning in the early 1850s, fortune-seekers rushed westward over Echo Summit in search of gold in El Dorado County. The discovery of silver and gold in Virginia City in 1859 reversed the travel eastward. After 1869, travel over Echo Summit was reduced to a trickle. Today, Echo Summit is a major route to the south Lake Tahoe basin. There are sites along the summit ridge, like...
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