By Pam Vaughan,Brendan Vaughan

positioned within the stark panorama of jap California�s Owens Valley, Bishop is positioned among of the top mountain levels of the contiguous usa. local americans were within the quarter because antiquity, and white settlers started to filter out in after many battles with the Paiutes and Shoshones. Bishop was once named after Sam Bishop, who drove farm animals into the realm and settled alongside Bishop Creek. Many extra farmers and ranchers undefined. To the south, l. a. was once becoming too, tapping the Owens River for a gravity-fed aqueduct for its citizens; therefore begun the Los Angeles�Owens Valley Water Conflict.

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