High-tech research in the high Sierra
Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 08:30
in Earth & Climate
As the legend holds, a violent escape from Nevada State Prison in 1871 concluded in a true-life Wild West shootout in California, not far from Mammoth Mountain. The immediate surroundings were renamed accordingly—Convict Creek, Convict Lake and Mount Morrison, after a slain member of the posse that ambushed the inmates.