MARIPOSA, CA - - The final item in my May 12 blog should have noted that Credence Clearwater Revival paid tribute to Buck Owens in their song "looking out my back door."
Mariposa (or butterfly in Spanish) is a gateway town for Yosemite. We're staying here tonight on our way into the park tomorrow. Somehow we seem to manage to hit areas where gold rush history is entwined in the location: Skagway (1898 Klondike Gold Rush); general area of Denali NP (early 1900's but nothing really came of the Kantishna location); Mariposa County (the trail of the 49ers (1849) with Hornitos being noted as one of the wildest towns in the Mother Lode).
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