Pahute Mesa

They were now crossing that arid region known as the Pahute Mesa, and, just over the horizon, lay a series of broken mountain ranges, wild, cut off from civilization, and shunned by all save those whose duty, fancy or love of adventure called them there.

Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

In the winter months, snow covered the 7,000-foot Pahute Mesa, and a few herds of wild horses roamed the high country.

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Water from Pahute Mesa (to the far northwest of the test site), would first flow down past Beatty, down through Amargosa, then to Ash Meadows and maybe around the mountains to Death Valley.

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