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Thread #10508   Message #73682
Posted By: SeanM
27-Apr-99 - 03:17 AM
Thread Name: Place names
Subject: RE: Place names
California and the other 'western' states in the US owe a great deal of bizzare and humourous names to the miners during the gold rush... Out in the desert, there's Squaw's Tit mountain (don't even WANNA know what's behind that one... this is still a pg-13 site, as I understand), Skull Valley (Nice place...stopped in for a soda at the drugstore once), and a plethora of other names, several of which I'm fairly certain stemmed from prolonged town council meetings in the local saloon.

But I'll leave those for the other westerners out there - at least the names aren't Welsh! (NOI BG);^)

M