Muah Mountain

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Muah Mountain (11,016 ft.)

Named by USGS in 1905

"'The location of the mountain and the sound of the word indicate a Shoshonean origin, probably Mono.' (Kroeber, 49.)"
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada
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