LA Times | Entertainment | Lone Pine: All About Location, Location, Location | By Pamela A. Richard | October 05, 2001 in print editio F-18

“Hi-yo Silver, away!” Those famous words still echo through the canyon where the masked man and his sidekick, Tonto, rode through the nearby Alabama Hills ridding the West of bad guys. The Alabama Hills, in the shadow of lofty Mt. Whitney, have been used since 1920 as a location in hundreds of films–and not just for Westerns.