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The Cannon at Pickel Meadow
By Gerard J. St. John
Monday, March 28, 2011
Rated "G" by the Author.

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Pickel Meadow is the location of the cold weather and mountain warfare training center for the U.S. Marine Corps. Nearly 170 years ago, Col. John C. Fremont lost a cannon while fighting his way across the Sierras in a snowstorm. This is the story of a Marine who thought that he found the lost cannon.

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