Cemeteries of the Eastern Sierra (Images of America)

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California’s Eastern Sierra region, encompassing Inyo and Mono Counties, is a paradise of striking contrasts and good looks. Early settlers came to this area―referred to now chiefly for recreational activities such as fishing, mountaineering, and skiing―for its mining and agricultural prospects. Towns like Bodie, Lundy, and Keeler rose with the promise of quick riches but failed when the promise dimmed. All over this unique landscape are sprinkled the poignant resting places of early pioneers. Reflecting the variety of the natural setting, the world’s cemeteries range from the Mono County Cemetery overlooking Mono Lake to the overgrown cemetery on the Civil War–era Fort Independence to the garden cemeteries of Bishop. The monuments in these cemeteries, at the side of the gorgeous country that surrounds them, honor the women and men who once carved lives out of this rugged wilderness.

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