A Tale of Two Mountains

from The Wind · host Fil Corbitt

In 2017, Jeff Davis Peak (California) and Jefferson Davis Peak (Nevada) began the process of shedding their names. In this episode, we journey through the bureaucratic network that names places in the US, and try to get a handle on what it means to name a place. To support The Wind, become a patron at www.patreon.com/thewindSubscribe at thewind.org

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Two peaks named for the confederate president, and their path through a bureaucratic (re)naming process.

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