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 ...

The itching usually strikes when he’s on the verge of finding what he’s looking for: the ivory tusks of a mammoth ... At a remote glacial lake I’m probing the ancient mud and ice along ...

South Lake Tahoe and Convict Lake, near Mammoth, look promising this week. In Southern California, the leaves around Mt.

From his home base in southern California, Payne ventured out into the California mountains, painting striking scenes of the ...

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 ...