All I could find online...I was really hoping for an interpretation of this amazing pictographs, describing how the white man forced the Mono tribe further into the Sierra Nevada...I smell a cover up! There was history detailed at every other 'attraction' we stopped at, but strangley, not this one...
This pleasant site on the Middle Fork of the Kaweah River was once home to nearly 500 Native Americans belonging to the Potwisha sub-group of the Monache, or Western Mono, Indians. Archeological evidence indicates that Indians settled in this area as early as 1350. Today, visitors to Hospital Rock can still view ancient rock paintings, or pictographs, and bedrock mortars used to grind acorns. The area got its present name in 1873, when James Everton stayed here to recover from a gunshot wound he had received while stumbling into a shotgun snare set to trap bear.
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