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Down the Owens Valley beneath the Eastern Sierra: the water war Los Angeles won, the aqueduct that runs on gravity alone, the orchards of Manzanar — planted by internees, still bearing — and the Alabama Hills, where Hollywood filmed every western that needed rocks.
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.