John Muir Writings
The Yosemite
by
John Muir (1912)
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Contents
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The Approach to the Valley
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Winter Storms and Spring Floods
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Snow-storms
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Snow Banners
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The Trees of the Valley
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The Forest Trees in General
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The Big Trees
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The Flowers
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The Birds
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The South Dome
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The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley Was Formed
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How Best to Spend One’s Yosemite Time
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Early History of the Valley
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[James C.] Lamon
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Galen Clark
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Hetch Hetchy Valley
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Appendix: Legislation About the Yosemite
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Appendix: Table of Distances
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Appendix: Maximum Rates for Transportation
List of Illustrations
- [Original Cover]
- Yosemite Fall
- Administrative Map of Yosemite National Park
- Yosemite Valley from Artist’s Point
- Cathedral Rocks and Cathedral Spires as seen across Merced River
- Vernal Fall
- Nevada Fall—Side View
- Vernal Fall
- Yosemite Valley in a Snowstorm
- The Three Brothers
- Looking down Yosemite from the Slope of Clouds’ Rest
- Looking up Tenaya Cañon from Glacier Point—Mt. Hoffman,
covered with snow, to the left
- The Mariposa Grove
- Fern Gardens and Oak Groves of Hetch-Hetchy Valley
[Photographed by J. W. Le Conte.]
- Sentinel Rock, from the Glacier Point Trail
- North Dome—Royal Arches—Washington Column—Merced River
- Mirror Lake, Mt. Watkins and Slopes of Clouds’ Rest
- The Half Dome, Clouds’ Rest Beyond
- The Three Brothers—the left-hand one, Eagle Peak, is the highest
- Looking down the Valley from the Glacier Point Trail
Sentinel Rock Cathedral Rocks El Capitan
- Looking up Tenaya Cañon from the Trail to Glacier Point
- Echo Peaks on the trail from the Yosemite Valley to the
Tuolumne Meadows
- Slope of Mt. Dana and Lake Tioga, Tuolumne Meadows
- El Capitan
- One of the Great Cascades with water whirls—near the
upper end of Tuolumne Cañon
[Photographed by W. L. Huber.]
- Gem Lake near Mt. Ritter
- Looking up Hetch-Hetchy Valley from Surprise Point
[Photographed by Taber, San Francisco.]
- A River View across the lower end of Tuolumne Meadows
[Photographed by George R. King.]
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Travel-Guide Map of the Yosemite Valley [172K]
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Travel-Guide Map of the Yosemite National Park [240K]
- Mt. Lyell and Glacier
- The Park-like floor of Hetch-Hetchy Valley
- The Mariposa Grove
- Hetch-Hetchy Valley
- Tueeulala and Wapama Falls, Hetch-Hetchy Valley
- View of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley
[Except in a few instances, photographs for the above
illustrations were furnished by The Pilsbury Picture Co.]
Bibliographic Information
Muir, John (1838-1914).
The Yosemite
(New York: The Century Company, 1912).
Library of Congress Call Number F868.Y6 M9.
x, 284 p. front., plates, 3 folding maps. 22 cm.
LCCN 12011005.
Book scanned and converted to HTML by Dan Anderson, 1996.
Corrections by Andrew Sly, 2003.
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