El Paso Mountains
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The El Paso Mountains are located in central southern California
in the United States
. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction east of Highway 14, and north of the Rand Mountains
and Randsburg Red Rock Road. Red Rock Canyon State Park lies at the western end of the range.
The mountains are approximately 18 miles (29 km) long and 16 mi (25.7 km) north and northeast of California City. The mountains are home to the Burro Schmidt Tunnel
, a tunnel dug by hand by William "Burro" H. Schmidt between 1906 and 1938.
were early Native American inhabitants of this mountain range. They created extensive carvings in rock within the El Paso and neighboring mountains, and conducted considerable trade with other tribes as distant as the Chumash on the Pacific coast.
California
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. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction east of Highway 14, and north of the Rand Mountains
Rand Mountains
The Rand Mountains are located in the Mojave Desert northeast of California City, California and southwest of the town of Randsburg, California.-History:...
and Randsburg Red Rock Road. Red Rock Canyon State Park lies at the western end of the range.
The mountains are approximately 18 miles (29 km) long and 16 mi (25.7 km) north and northeast of California City. The mountains are home to the Burro Schmidt Tunnel
Burro Schmidt Tunnel
The Burro Schmidt Tunnel, located in Kern County, California near Garlock, is a half-mile long tunnel dug entirely by hand, constructed over a 32-year period by William "Burro" H. Schmidt...
, a tunnel dug by hand by William "Burro" H. Schmidt between 1906 and 1938.
Prehistory
The Coso PeopleCoso People
The Coso people are an indigenous people of the Americas and Native American tribe associated with the Coso Range in the Mojave Desert of California in the southwestern U.S.. They are of the Uto-Aztecan language and spoke one of several Numic languages, related to that of the Northern Paiute.They...
were early Native American inhabitants of this mountain range. They created extensive carvings in rock within the El Paso and neighboring mountains, and conducted considerable trade with other tribes as distant as the Chumash on the Pacific coast.