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    Ebbetts Pass (el. 8,736 ft or 2,663 m), named after John Ebbetts, is a high mountain pass through the Sierra Nevada range in Alpine County, California...
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    the highway ascends up the Sierra foothills. It passes through Ebbetts Pass and contains the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway, a National Scenic Byway. SR 4, an...
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    Smith first came down from Ebbetts Pass, then continued from Monitor Pass past Topaz Lake into Nevada. The highway through the pass was completed in the early...
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  • Nevada "Ebbetts Pass Route". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved July 8, 2013. The Emigrant Trail through Ebbetts Pass, discovered...
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    660 m) Ebbetts Pass. Descriptions of the pass match those used by Jedediah Smith in the late spring of 1827 when leaving California, as well as the pass used...
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  • Retrieved October 11, 2017 – via TopoQuest. United States Geological Survey. Ebbetts Pass, California (Topographic map). 1:24,000. 7.5 minute series. Reston, VA:...
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    Arnold is named after Bob and Bernice Arnold, who, in 1927 opened the Ebbetts Pass Inn. Prior to that, the community consisted of two large ranches where...
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  • SR 89 near Markleeville Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway (also a National Scenic Byway), crossing of the Sierra Nevada via Ebbetts Pass past giant sequoia groves...
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    Donner Summit (Euer Saddle, pass of Interstate 80) Ebbetts Pass Echo Summit (Johnson's Pass, pass of U.S. Route 50) Emigrant Pass (at least 2, one in Tahoe...
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    of Sonora to the west and Bridgeport to the east. Like Ebbetts Pass to the north and Tioga Pass to the south, the highway closes during winter, generally...
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    Carson Pass Donner Pass Ebbetts Pass Forester Pass Fredonyer Pass Glen Pass Morgan Summit Muir Pass Pacific Grade Summit Sherman Pass Sonora Pass Tehachapi...
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    Jedediah Smith, crossing north of the Yosemite area in May 1827, at Ebbetts Pass. In 1833, a subgroup of the Bonneville Expedition led by Joseph Reddeford...
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  • Sierra Nevada Mountains east of Stockton on the west and east slope of Ebbetts Pass on State Highway 4. The 2010 population is 1,175 people. The posse thought...
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    Byways. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved December 14, 2022. "Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway". America's Byways. Federal Highway Administration. Retrieved...
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    After a difficult crossing of the Sierra Nevada near Ebbetts Pass, Smith and his two men passed around the south end of Walker Lake. After meeting with...
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    500 m) to 11,462 feet (3,494 m) along the Sierra Mountains from Ebbetts Pass to Sonora Pass in the south. The US Forest Service manages the wilderness which...
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  • American politician John Ebbetts (or Ebbets), namesake of Ebbetts Pass Ebbets Field, a former baseball park in Brooklyn, New York Ebbett, a similar surname...
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    crossed the area in spring 1827, after crossing the Sierra Nevada at Ebbetts Pass on his way to the 1827 fur trade rendezvous. As of the census of 2000...
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    Monument Yosemite National Park (29) Tuolumne Meadows Sonora Pass, Ebbetts Pass, Carson Pass Desolation Wilderness Lassen National Forest (22) Lassen Volcanic...
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    historically was a stopping point along the toll road between Murphys and Ebbetts Pass, often serving as a resort for visitors to what is now Calaveras Big...
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    having made their way up the rugged North Fork canyon, they crossed Ebbetts Pass, becoming the first people of European descent to cross the Sierra. There...
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    encompasses an area of the Sierra Nevada mountain range between Ebbetts Pass and Carson Pass. There are two sections separated by the Blue Lakes Road and...
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    center, supplying many of the silver mines in Nevada with provisions via Ebbetts Pass. The town is registered as California Historical Landmark #275. A "Hall...
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  • California. It was located on Silver Creek 5 miles (8 km) north-northeast of Ebbetts Pass, at an elevation of 6411 feet (1954 m). Silver Mountain was founded in...
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    California, United States. Raymond Peak is set 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north of Ebbetts Pass in the Mokelumne Wilderness, on land managed by Humboldt–Toiyabe National...
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    South Fork of the American River, Smith's group managed to cross via Ebbetts Pass on the headwaters of the Stanislaus River, becoming the first non-Natives...
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    Great Basin in 1827, traversing west to east from the Sierra Nevada near Ebbetts Pass. Smith, however, missed Humboldt Lake and the Humboldt River, and nearly...
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    leaving the city. 1827 – Jedediah Smith crosses the Sierra Nevada (via Ebbetts Pass) and the Great Basin. 1828 – French explorer René Caillié is the first...
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    the Sierras at Ebbetts Pass Another account (Bancroft 1886:IV:394 395) places the proposed rendezvous at the west end of Walker Pass. The Walker party...
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    located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, 3.2 miles northeast of Ebbetts Pass in the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness, on land managed by Humboldt–Toiyabe...
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