Mount Emerson is located in the

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in eastern California, United States. Mount Emerson is the 116th highest mountain in California and the 671st highest mountain in the United States.

History

Mount Emerson is named in honor of the essayist, poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Muir wrote in a letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr that "I have named a grand wide-winged mountain on the head of the Joaquin Mount Emerson. Its head is high above its fellows and wings are white with ice and snow." It has been suggested that Muir might have intended to confer the poet's name on Mount Humphreys which had already been named by the California Geological Survey, Whitney Survey.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Emerson Mountains of Inyo County, California Mountains of Northern California