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January 30, 2024

The Jewish Trailblazer Who Explored the Mountains of the American West

Theodore Seixas Solomons.

Even at the end of the 19th century, much of California’s Sierra Nevada remained unmapped and unexplored, a fact that drove Theodore Seixas Solomons—a native of the San Francisco Bay area—to search for a path through its wildest area. He and his friend Ernest Bonner succeeded in doing so in 1895, even if a snowstorm cut short their adventure. Michael Hoberman writes:

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