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Cosio Knob

The named summit two miles south of Oat Hills, and the namesake of the USGS quadrangle that carries the Plasketts’ inland country.

Stories set here

mabel poem

A Day at Wesleys Spring

A day's ride up a steep mountain trail with two companions, to lie beneath the willows at Wesley's spring — a place that appears on no map. We found the ground: Wesley Plaskett's section in the Oat Hills, inland from Jolon.

The people of Cosio Knob

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