Historic Yosemite National Park : : the stories behind one of America's great treasures / / Tracy Salcedo.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Guilford, Connecticut : : Lyons Press,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of 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.