This land is your land — until a foreign mining company wants it,” writes the owner and caretaker of a historic 19th-century ...

The former American Hotel in Cerro Gordo, a ghost town nestled in the Inyo ... the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney, and the lowest, Death Valley.

Cerro Gordo is a historic 19th-century mining town ... Each year, 20,000 hikers on Mt. Whitney look out over this landscape which is currently filled with Joshua trees, ancient bristlecone pines ...