100 Years in Yosemite: The Story of a Great Park and Its Friends

One Hundred Years in Yosemite: The Story of a Great Park and Its Friends

It is the purpose of One Hundred Years in Yosemite to preserve and disseminate the true story of the discovery and preservation of Americas first public reservation to be set aside for its natural beauty and scientific interest. When the original version of this book was written in 1930, I had recently completed the collation of manuscript diaries and correspondence, newspaper files, old journals, hotel registers, state and federal reports, photographs, and a variety of other pertinent historical source materials in the library of the Yosemite Museum. This was the material upon which the book was based. In the preface of the book I made a plea for the contribution of additional Yosemite memorabilia to be added to the Yosemite archives. Perhaps some of the fine response from donors during the past sixteen years is traceable to that plea; more likely, the increased interest in the Yosemite Museum results from the creditable work of the parks staff members and the message carried by the monthly publication, Yosemite Nature Notes. The notable growth of the Yosemite Museum collections and the improvement of its exhibits and its general program of interpretive work are heartening to all who had a hand in the establishment of the work. In the original version, and in bringing to the present work the benefit of new material, I have attempted to organize the x published information which has been confirmed by the oral testimony of many Yosemite pioneers and enriched with authentic data from unpublished manuscripts prepared by other old-timers to whom I could not speak. In order that a convenient chronology of events might be available to the reader, an outline is appended to the book. This includes the episodes related in the text and in addition mentions many obscure events not treated in the narrative. It also provides ready reference to the sources drawn upon in writing. This method of citing sources has made it unnecessary to encumber the pages of the text with numerous footnotes. Most of the manuscripts referred to are the property of the Yosemite Museum. The whereabouts of other manuscripts is indicated in the bibliography. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58295
Author: Russell, Carl Parcher
Release Date: Nov 17, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English