Season 1 · Episode 5
A Tale of Two Mountains
Two peaks named for the confederate president, and their path through a bureaucratic (re)naming process.
December 15, 202036m 12s
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Show Notes
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.
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Topics
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