| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Author's note: on the brilliance of faraway eyes -- The Ahwahneechee -- The Mariposa Battalion -- The cutting edge: the creation and evolution of Yosemite National Park -- Building an icon: Yosemite's roads, trails, and lodgings -- The quiet giants: Galen Clark and the big trees -- John Muir: the wanderer who was never lost -- Hetch Hetchy -- Images of Yosemite -- The climbers -- Sculpting Yosemite: tales of glaciers and waterfalls -- Yosemite wildlife -- Yosemite's furies: wildfire, rockfall, and flood -- Appendix: Yosemite National Park statistics |
| Summary |
The history of Yosemite National Park is as compelling as the waterfalls, monoliths, and peaks that have mesmerized visitors for more than a century. But what hikers see today in the iconic Yosemite Valley, as well as on the peaks in the high country and within the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, is a world away from the place Native Americans once called Ahwahnee, and from what gold-seekers and mountain men looked upon in the park's earliest days. Historic Yosemite National Park is a vibrant collection of stories about different aspects of Yosemite National Park's fascinating history, from the c |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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| SUBJECT |
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- History
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Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Biography
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| Subject |
California -- Yosemite National Park
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016003680 |
| ISBN |
9781493018123 |
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1493018124 |
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