Eastern Mojave Vegetation Tehachapi, Kern County, California.
 
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Small city in a pass between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. The name was placed on a map as Tah-ee-chay-pah Pass by the Pacific Railroad Survey in 1853; "from the Indians we learned that their name for the creek was Tah-ee-chay-pah (Gudde, 1969)."

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Date and time this article was prepared:7:39:43 PM, 12/9/2024.