Roachville and White Mountain City, settlements east of the White Mountains from Owens Valley, were used for a California election fraud in the fall of 1861. The Warm Springs precinct covering these sparsely populated settlements was populated with an additional 521 voters culled from the passenger list of a steamship that had recently arrived in San Francisco.[1][2]
Location
The site of Roachville is on Cottonwood Creek, northeast of White Mountain City near the Mono County, California border.
^Chalfant, Willie Arthur (1922). The story of Inyo. The Internet Archive. Chicago: Published by the author through Hammond Press. p. 173.
^Hoover, Mildred Brook; Rensch, Hero Eugene; Rensch, Ethel Grace; Abeloe, William N.; Kyle, Douglas E. (2002). Historic spots in California. Internet Archive (5th ed.). Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN978-0-8047-4482-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
