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Just a little further up the canyon and back over on the east side is the first of three historic inscriptions by the mysterious A. Tillman. The inscription reads "July, 1874, A. Tillman, S.F." In 1873 Black Canyon was a bustling wagon road to the new boomtown of Panamint City and its silver mines. It's possible that Tillman was a teamster who plied this route and that during his trips found time to inscribe his name at several spots along the canyon. The Panamint boom was short lived and in 1875 the wagon road began its slide into obscurity. Later today we'll hunt for the second, and most elaborate, of these inscriptions.

Just a little further up the canyon and back over on the east side is the first of three historic inscriptions by the mysterious A. Tillman. The inscription reads "July, 1874, A. Tillman, S.F." In 1873 Black Canyon was a bustling wagon road to the new boomtown of Panamint City and its silver mines. It's possible that Tillman was a teamster who plied this route and that during his trips found time to inscribe his name at several spots along the canyon. The Panamint boom was short lived and in 1875 the wagon road began its slide into obscurity. Later today we'll hunt for the second, and most elaborate, of these inscriptions.