Setting the geographical record straight in the
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 9:55pm
By Guy Rocha. Padre Pedro Font, during an expedition to Spanish-controlled Northern California in 1776, named and mapped the Sierra Nevada for the first time. Sierra means saw-toothed mountain range i...
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