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“It was an important crystallizing experience, especially to be thrown out into the expanse of nature like that.” William Everson on the influence Sequoia National Park and vicinity had on his work.
Introduction: Powder Horn
Introduction: A 43-year-old Irish immigrant named Ellen Gilkey and her teenage daughter Lizzie stake a mining claim on an exquisitely beautiful 20 acres in Mineral King.
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Two: Powder Horn
Part Two: Appearances matter. When the man who murdered Edwin G. Gilkey was brought out for his pardon hearing, he didn’t have to say a word.
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Four: Powder Horn
Part Four: Two out of six executions were conducted by lynch mobs rather than government officials.
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