this nearly 170-acre lake sits against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, about 11 miles southwest of Mammoth Lakes off U.S. Highway 395. Today, Convict Lake serves as a haven for trout ...

South Lake Tahoe and Convict Lake, near Mammoth, look promising this week. In Southern California, the leaves around Mt. Baldy and Big Bear Lake usually reach their peak between mid-October and ...

In the early 1900s, dramatic stories of the abuse and wretched conditions of convict laborers began to be publicized through trials and newspaper accounts. The egregiousness of the violence and ...

Lake Mary is the largest of the Mammoth Lakes, at more than a mile wide in one place, and we drove along it slowly for a leisurely time. Aside from the small marina visible in the photograph ...

Soon, markets for convict laborers developed, with entrepreneurs buying and selling convict labor leases. Unlike slavery, employers had only a small capitol investment in convict laborers ...

Paynes Lake in the Sierra Nevada is named in his honor. Condition: Visual: Overall good condition. As mentioned, the artist's signature at lower left is partially truncated due to trimming along the ...