Moses Mountain
North Maggie Mountain

Sat, Nov 12, 2005

With: Matthew Holliman

 Etymology
Moses Mountain
North Maggie Mountain
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Moses Mountain (9,331 ft.)

"One version has it that the mountain was named during a fishing trip many years ago when an elderly member of the party was nicknamed 'Moses.' (Farquhar: Versteeg.) The other version is that the government surveyor who named Mount Maggie was named Moses Peabody, with the implication that he named this mountain for himself. (Otter, 156)"
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada
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