The Alabama Hills

The Alabama Hills was a popular filming location for television and movie productions, especially Westerns set in an archetypical "rugged" environment, nearly every major Western actor of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s rode their horses amid these rocks: John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, Robert Mitchum, William Boyd, Roy Rogers, and many others.

The Alabama Hills were named for the CSS Alabama, a Confederate warship deployed during the American Civil War