THE STREETS OF THE MOUNTAINS 



an amount of local history to be read in 

 the names of mountain highways where 

 one touches the successive waves of occu- 

 pation or discovery, as in the old villages 

 where the neighborhoods are not built 

 but grow. Here you have the Spanish 

 Californian in Ccro Gordo and pinon ; 

 Symmes and Shepherd, pioneers both ; 

 Tunawai, probably Shoshone ; Oak Creek, 

 Kearsarge, — easy to fix the date of that 

 christening, — Tinpah, Paiute that; Mist 

 Carion and Paddy Jack's. The streets of 

 the west Sierras sloping toward the San 

 Joaquin are long and winding, but from 

 the east, my country, a day's ride carries 

 one to the lake regions. The next day 

 reaches the passes of the high divide, but 

 whether one gets passage depends a little 

 on how many have gone that road before, 

 and much on one's own powers. The 

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