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Yosemite Online Library

Yosemite People and their Writings

Statement of Purpose: To preserve and make accessible, online, books and other writings about Yosemite National Park.

Yosemite books and photographs by the following people are available online, with the complete text and original illustrations. This list is arranged by author. Also available by title or subject.

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Author

• A
• Thomas A. Ayres (Thomas Almond), artist (1816 - 1858)
  • “A Trip to the Yohamite Valley,” San Francisco Daily Alta California, August 6, 1859
• B
• Warren Baer, newspaper editor
  • “A Trip to the Yosemite Falls,” Mariposa Democrat, August 5, 1856. First extensive description of Yosemite Valley
• S. A. Barrett (Samuel Alfred Barrett), ethnologist (1879-1965)
  • “The Geography and Dialects of the Miwok Indians,” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 6(2):333-368 (February 1908) [PDF] Includes a map.
  • “Myths of the Southern Sierra Miwok” (1919)
  • Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region (1933)
• Craig D. Bates (Craig Dana), NPS Ethnographer (1952-)
  • “Names and Meanings for Yosemite Valley,” YNN 47(3):42-44 (1978) Discussion about the origin of the Ahwahneechee words Yosemite and Ahwahnee.
• Jill L. Cossley-Batt, writer (1891-1969)
  • The Last of the California Rangers (1928) Biography of William Howard, including information on the California State Rangers, Mariposa Battalion, discovery of Yosemite, and Joaquin Murieta.
• M. E. Beatty (Matthew Edward “Ed” Beatty), NPS Ranger Naturalist (1909 - 1989)
  • Bears of Yosemite (1943)
  • A Brief Story of the Geology of Yosemite Valley (1943)
• Madison S. Beeler (Madison Scott Beeler), linguist (1910-1989)
  • “Yosemite and Tamalpais,” Names (1955). This article discusses the origin of the word Yosemite.
• John W. Bingaman, Yosemite Park Ranger (1896-1987)
  • Guardians of the Yosemite (1961)
  • The Ahwahneechees: A Story of the Yosemite Indians (1966)
  • Pathways: A Story of Trails and Men (1968)
• William H. Brewer, botanist (1828-1910)
  • Up and Down California in 1860-1864; The Journal of William H. Brewer (1930)
• Sylvia M. Broadbent (Sylvia Marguerite Broadbent) anthropologist (circa 1930 -) and L. S. Freeland (Lucy Shepard Freeland) anthropologist (1890-1972)
  • Central Sierra Miwok Dictionary with Texts (1960)
  • Southern Sierra Miwok Language (1964)
• C. Frank Brockman (Christian Frank), park naturalist (1902 - 1985),
  • A Guide to the Mother Lode Country (1948)
  • Broadleaved Trees of Yosemite National Park (1947)
  • Principal Waterfalls of the World (1945)
• Lloyd W. Brubaker, Ranger Naturalist (1925-2000)
  • Guide to the Pioneer Cemetery,. Yosemite Valley Pioneer Cemetery located next to the Visitor Center
• Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. D. (James Monroe Buckley) minister (1836-1920)
  • Two Weeks in the Yosemite and Vicinity (1873, 1883)
• Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, miner (1824-1903)
  • “How the Yo-Semite Valley was Discovered and Named,” Hutchings’ Illustrated California Magazine (May 1859) [PDF]
  • Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851, Which Led to That Event (1892)
• C
• Newell D. Chamberlain (Newell Day), camp owner (1880-1961)
  • Call of Gold: True Tales on the Gold Road to Yosemite (1936)
• J. Smeaton Chase (Joseph Smeaton), writer (1864-1923),
  • Yosemite Trails: Camp and Pack-Train in the Yosemite Region of the Sierra Nevada (1911)
• Caroline M. Nichols Churchill, writer (1833-1926)
  • Over the Purple Hills or Sketches of travel in California, embracing all the important points usually visited by tourists (1876). (American Memory, Library of Congress)
• Galen Clark, pioneer and Guardian of Yosemite (1814-1910)
  • Indians of the Yosemite Valley and Vicinity (1904)
  • The Big Trees of California (1907)
  • “Yosemite: Past and Present,” Sunset, April, 1909
  • The Yosemite Valley (1910)
  • Early Days in Yosemite (1964). Originally published as “A Plea for Yosemite” in 1927 from a manuscript written c. 1907.
• James E. Cole (James Ellsworth), NPS biologist (1902-1981)
  • The Cone-bearing Trees of Yosemite (1939)
• Edward S. Curtis, photographer (1868-1952)
  • The North American Indian v. 24 (1924), “The Miwok” chapter
• D
• Mark Roy Daniels, General Superintendent of National Parks
  • Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Yosemite National Park to the Secretary of the Interior (1914)
Richard P. Ditton, Yosemite Park and Curry Company employee (b. before 1942)
• Self-guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite National Park (1956)
• Laurence V. Degnan, Yosemite pioneer (1884-1963)
  • Guide to the Pioneer Cemetery,. Yosemite Valley Pioneer Cemetery located next to the Visitor Center
  • The Old Stagedriver’s Yosemite Yarns (1962)
• E
• Willis A. Evans, NPS Naturalist (1918-2003)
  • Fishes of Yosemite National Park (1941, 1948)
• F
• Francis P. Farquhar, mountaineer (1887-1974)
  • “Exploration of the Sierra Nevada” (1925)
  • Place Names of the High Sierra (1926)
• George Fiske, photographer (1835-1918)
  • Photographs in James Hutchings, In the Heart of the Sierras; the Yo Semite Valley, both historical and descriptive: and Scenes by the Way. Big Tree Groves. The High Sierra, . . . (1888)
  • Photographs in Galen Clark, The Yosemite Valley (1910)
• L. S. Freeland See Sylvia M. Broadbent
• G
• Edward Winslow Gifford, ethnologist (1887-1959)
  • Miwok Myths (1917)
  • Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region (1933)
• Elizabeth H. Godfrey (Elizabath H. Godfrey Baker), secretary (b. before 1941 - d. after 1951).
  • Yosemite Indians; Yesterday and Today (1941; revised circa 1947-1950)
  • “Thumbnail Sketches of Yosemite Artists,” Yosemite Nature Notes (February-May, July, September, and November 1944, and February, March, and July 1945)
• Lady Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming, travel writer (1837-1924),
  • Granite Crags (1884). Later editions were Granite Crags of California
• Horace Greeley, newspaper editor (1811-1872)
  • An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859 (1860). First account of Yosemite to be widely distributed on the east coast
• Linda Wedel Greene, NPS Resources Manager (1947-)
  • Yosemite: The Park and Its Resources (NPS, 1987). This Historic Resource Study is a detailed technical reference on historical park resources, with an extensive bibliography
• Joseph Grinnell, Field Biologist (1877-1939)
  • Animal Life in the Yosemite (1924) (NPS website)
• H
• Ansel F. Hall, NPS Ranger Naturalist (1894-1962)
  • Guide to Yosemite: a handbook of the trails and roads of Yosemite valley and the adjacent region (1920)
  • Handbook of Yosemite National Park: a compendium of articles on the Yosemite region by the leading scientific authorities (1922)
  • Yosemite Valley: An Intimate Guide (1929)
• Sarah Haight (Mrs. Edward Tompkins, Sarah H. Tompkins), early Yosemite Valley visitor (1835 - after 1881)
  • The Ralston-Fry Wedding and the Wedding Journey to Yosemite May 20, 1858 from the Diary of Miss Sarah Haight [Mrs. Edward Tompkins, Sarah H. Tompkins]. Edited by Francis P. Farquhar (1887-1974) (1961).
• Laura E. (Soullière) Harrison, NPS Historian (1950-)
  • “The Wawona Hotel and Thomas Hill Studio,” Architecture in the Parks (1986). Online at NPS website
• Richard J. Hartesveldt, professor (1921 - 1975)
  • Yosemite Valley Place Names (1955)
  • The Devil Postpile National Monument, (1952)
  • The Giant Sequoia of the Sierra Nevada (NPS, 1975). In-depth work on the Giant Sequoia, including the roles of fire and insects on the Sequoia. Online at NPS website
• Harold F. Heady, professor (1916 - 2011)
  • Vegetational Changes in Yosemite Valley co-authored with Paul J. Zinke (NPS, 1978)
• Weldon Fairbanks Heald, architect (1907 - 1967)
  • “Abrams Diary” (1947). Describes William Abrams’ discovery of Yosemite Valley in October 1849
• Robert F. “Bob” Heizer, anthropologist (1915 - 1979)
  • Census of Non-reservation California Indians, 1905-1906 (1971) by Charles E. Kelsey. Robert F. Heizer, ed. Only Yosemite-area counties are posted
• John S. Hittell (John Shertzer Hittell), writer (1825 - 1901)
  • Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties (1868)
• Charles F. Hoffmann (Charles Frederick Hoffmann), topographer (1838-1913)
  • “Notes on Hetch-Hetchy Valley” (1868)
• Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Thocmentony “Shell Flower”), translator, speaker (ca. 1844 - 1887)
  • Life Among the Piutes (1883). Written by a Northern Paiute princess about her people, who lived east of the Sierra Nevada.
• Douglass H. Hubbard (Douglass Hopwood Hubbard), Park Naturalist (1918 - 2011)
  • Wild Flowers of the Sierra (1958)
  • Ghost Mines of Yosemite (1958)
  • The Old Stagedriver’s Yosemite Yarns (1962)
• Dr. N. King Huber (Norman King Huber), geologist (1926-2007)
  • The Geologic Story of Yosemite National Park (1987)
• Ellsworth Huntington, Professor of Economics, Yale University (1876 - 1947)
  • The Secret of the Big Trees: Yosemite Sequoia and General Grant National Parks (NPS, 1921)
• James Mason Hutchings, Yosemite pioneer (1824 or 1820-1902)
  • “California for Waterfalls!,” San Francisco Daily California Chronicle (August 18, 1855) Contains an account of the second tourist party to Yosemite Valley The original, unabridged version was published in the Mariposa Gazette, August 9, 1855)
  • Hutchings’ Illustrated California Magazine [PDF] (1856-1961). California topics, including Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Nevada
  • “The Yo-ham-i-te Valley, and its Water-falls,” Hutchings’ California Magazine 1(1):2-7 (July 1856)
  • “The Great Yo-Semite Valley,”Hutchings’ California Magazine, (October 1859). First account of Yosemite Valley with illustrations
  • Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California (1862). First travel guide for Yosemite Valley.
  • In the Heart of the Sierras; the Yo Semite Valley, both historical and descriptive: and Scenes by the Way. Big Tree Groves. The High Sierra, . . . (1888)
• Hans Huth, art curator (1892 - 1977)
  • “Yosemite: The Story of an Idea,” (1948)
• J
• Helen Hunt Jackson, writer (1830-1885)
  • Bits of Travel at Home (1878). Includes a travel account to California by railroad and to Yosemite.
• Richard R. Jackson, Ranger Naturalist
  • Guide to the Pioneer Cemetery,. Yosemite Valley Pioneer Cemetery located next to the Visitor Center
• George Wharton James, writer (1858-1923)
  • “Basket Makers” (1901)
• Shelton Johnson, Ranger Naturalist (ca. 1959 -)
  • Invisible Men: Buffalo Soldiers of the Sierra Nevada (cira 2003) Story of Black Calvary troopers patrolling Yosemite. For background information, see “Buffalo Soldiers Story.”
• K
• Charles E. Kelsey, attorney (before 1884 - after 1925)
  • Census of Non-reservation California Indians, 1905-1906 (1971) Only Yosemite-area counties are posted
• Clarence King, geologist (1842-1901)
  • Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (1902)
• Thomas Starr King, minister (1824-1864)
  • A Vacation among the Sierras: Yosemite in 1860 (1962)
• Samuel Kneeland, zoologist (1821-1888)
  • The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California With original photographic illustrations, by John P. Soule. (1871)
• A. L. Kroeber (Alfred Louis Kroeber), ethnologist (1876-1960)
  • Pohonichi Miwok Myths from “Indian Myths of South Central California” (1907)
  • “On the Evidences of the Occupation of Certain Regions by the Miwok Indians,” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 6(3):369-380 (February 1908) [PDF] (Rebuttal to Dr. Merriam’s 1907 article.)
  • “The Miwok” chapter from Handbook of Indians of California (1919)
• Ralph S. Kuykendall (Ralph Simpson Kuykendall), historian (1885-1963)
  • Early History of Yosemite Valley California (NPS, 1919)
  • “History of the Yosemite Region,” in Handbook of Yosemite National Park (1921)
• L
• James Henry Lawrence, lawyer and newspaper editor (circa 1831 - 1901)
  • “Discovery of the Nevada Fall” Overland Monthly (1884). Account of an early tourist party in 1855.
• Joseph LeConte, geologist, conservationist (1823-1901)
  • A Journal of Ramblings Through the High Sierras of California (1875)
• John Erastus Lester, attorney (1840–1900)
  • The Yo-semite, Its History, its Scenery, its Development (1873)
  • The Atlantic to the Pacific: What to See and How to See it (1873)
• Olive Logan, actress and writer (1839-1909)
  • “Does it Pay to Visit Yo Semite?,” The Galaxy (1870)
• M
• Donald E. McHenry, park naturalist (1895-1969)
  • Self-guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite National Park (1956)
• George G. MacKenzie (George Gordon MacKenzie, pseudonym “Lewis Stornoway”), newspaper reporter (1849-1922)
  • Yosemite: Where to Go and What to Do (1888)
• François E. Matthes (François Emile), geologist (1874-1948)
  • Sketch of Yosemite National Park and an Account of the Origin of the Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Valleys (1912) (NPS)
  • Geologic History of the Yosemite Valley (1930). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 160. A dated, but pioneering study in glacial geology (NPS)
  • François Matthes and the Marks of Time; Yosemite and the High Sierra (1962). A posthumous collection of popular articles by François Matthes, mostly from the Sierra Club Bulletin
• James W. McFarland, Ranger-Naturalist (1917-2006)
  • A Guide to the Giant Sequoias of Yosemite National Park (1949)
• C. Hart Merriam (Clinton Hart Merriam, M.D.), biologist (1855-1942)
  • “Distribution and Classification of the Mewan [Miwok] Stock of California,” American Anthropologist 9(2):338-357 (April/June 1907) [PDF] Includes a map.
  • The Dawn of the World; Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan [Miwok] Indians of California (1910)
  • “Indian Village and Camp Sites in Yosemite Valley,” Sierra Club Bulletin 10(2) (Jan. 1917)
• Enid Michael (Enid Reeves Michael Benson), first female Ranger-Naturalist in Yosemite (1883-1966)
  • Several articles in Yosemite Nature Notes, including a special issue, “The Common Nesting Birds of Yosemite Valley,” (1930) [PDF], and a 5-part series, “Feeding Habits of the Woodpeckers in the Yosemite Valley” (1931 - 1932) [PDF]
• Lt. Tredwell Moore, U.S. Army officer (1825-1876)
  • Reports from Lt. Tredwell Moore to the Pacific Division on the Mariposa Indian War of 1852 (unpublished letters, 1852).
• Dana Clark Morgenson, photographer (1906-1980)
  • Yosemite Wildflower Trails (1975). Based on notes by Mary Curry Tressider.
  • The Four Seasons of Yosemite (1980). Yosemite pictorial.
• John Muir, conservationist, botanist, and geologist (1838-1914)
  • Books online, by date of first publication:
  • “Yosemite Glaciers,” New York Tribune, 1871.
  • “Yosemite in Winter,” New York Tribune, 1872.
  • “Yosemite in Spring,” New York Tribune, 1872.
  • Studies in the Sierra 1874-1875; 1915-1921; 1950.
  • Picturesque California (1888-1890)
  • “The Treasures of the Yosemite,” The Century Magazine, 1890
  • “Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park,” The Century Magazine, 1890
  • The Mountains of California (1894).
  • Our National Parks (1901).
  • My First Summer in the Sierra (1911).
  • The Yosemite (1912)
  • Letters to a Friend (1915)
  • Steep Trails (1919)
  • The Life and Letters of John Muir (1923)
• Eadweard Muybridge, photographer (1830 -1904)
  • Photographs in John S. Hittell, Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties (1868)
• O
• Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (1822-1903)
  • Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report (1865)
• P
• Irene Dakin Paden, historian (1893 - 1967)
  • The Big Oak Flat Road (1955)
• Stanley E. Plumb, YP&CC advertising director (1896-1974)
  • The Four Seasons in Yosemite National Park (1938) Editor. Photographs by Ansel Adams.
• Harry C. Parker, park naturalist (1906-1961)
  • Mammals of Yosemite National Park (1962)
• Stephen Powers, newspaper reporter and writer (1840-1904)
  • “The California Indians: No. VII—The Meewocs,” Overland Monthly 10(4);322-333 (April 1873).
  • “Miwok,” “Yosemite,” and “Pai-u’-ti” [Paiute] chapters from Tribes of California (1877)
• R
• Hetch Hetchy Happenings
  • Hetch Hetchy Happenings, newsletter of Restore Hetch Hetchy, volume 1 - current (2002 -)
• Robert Joseph Rodin, botanist (1922-1978)
  • Ferns of the Sierra (1960)
• Alfred Runte, historian (1947 -)
  • Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness (University of Nebraska Press, 1990). Online at NPS website
• Carl Parcher Russell, Chief Naturalist, NPS (1894-1967)
  • “Early Years in Yosemite” (1926)
  • One Hundred Years in Yosemite; The Story of a Great Park and Its Friends 2d. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1947),
  • “The Geography of the Mariposa Indian War,” Yosemite Nature Notes 30 (1951) (PDF, 4 parts)
• S
• Shirley Sargent, historian (1927 - 2004)
  • Wawona’s Yesterdays (1961)
• Margaret Elizabeth Schlichtmann, historian (1898 - 1989)
  • The Big Oak Flat Road (1955)
• Allan Shields (Allan Edwin), Professor and Seasonal Ranger-Naturalist (1919 -)
  • Guide to Tuolumne Meadows Trails (1959)
• James B. Snyder, historian (1944 -)
  • Rock falls from Glacier Point above Camp Curry, Yosemite National Park, California (1999) co-author with Gerald F. Wieczorek (USGS website)
• Cyril A. Stebbins (Cyril Adelbert), instructor (1878-1953) and Robert C. (Robert Cyril) “Bob” Stebbins, professor (1915-2000)
  • Birds of Yosemite National Park (1954, 1963)
• Tracy Irwin Storer, Zoologist (1889-1973)
  • Animal Life in the Yosemite (1924). Online at NPS website
• Lewis Stornoway (pseudonym). See George G. MacKenzie
• T
• Mrs. Henry James Taylor (Rose (Schuster) Taylor), librarian (1863 - 1951)
  • The Last Survivor. (1932) Biographical sketch of Maria Lebrado Ydrte “To-tu-ya” (ca. 1840-1931), granddaughter of Tenaya, chief of the Yosemite Indians.
  • Yosemite Indians and Other Sketches (1936) Biographical sketches of early pioneers and artists, and Yosemite Indians.
• Katherine Ames Taylor, writer (1895-1979)
  • Lights and Shadows of Yosemite (1926). Yosemite history and narrative, with photographs by several photographers, including an early one by Ansel Adams
  • Yosemite Tales and Trails (1934). Yosemite history and narrative, with photographs by Ansel Adams.
• Bradford Torrey, writer and editor (1843-1912)
  • “On Foot in the Yosemite,” Atlantic Monthly (1910)
• Mary Curry Tresidder, innkeeper (1893-1970)
  • The Trees of Yosemite; a Popular Account. Revised ed. (1948) Linoleum prints by Della Taylor Hoss.
• Keith A. Trexler, Ranger Naturalist (1931-1975)
  • The Tioga Road; a History 1883-1961 (1961, rev. 1980)
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• Robert F. Uhte, Park Ranger and Architect (1923 -)
  • “Yosemite’s Pioneer Cabins” (1951)
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• Alice Ives Van Schaack, visitor (1844 - ca. 1912)
  • A Familiar Letter from a Daughter to Her Mother (1871)
• Dr. Hervey Harper Voge, Climber and Chemist (1910-1990)
  • A Climber’s Guide to the High Sierra (1854)
• Jan W. van Wagtendonk, USGS Research Forester (1941-)
  • Refined Burning Prescriptions for Yosemite National Park (1975). Online at NPS website
• W
• Myrl V. Walker (M. V. Walker), Park Naturalist & Paleontologist (1903-1985)
  • Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Park (1946)
• Orthello L. Wallis, NPS Naturalist (1921-)
  • Fishes of Yosemite National Park (1941, 1948)
• Samuel Ward, D.C. lobbyist (1814-1884)
  • Sam Ward in the Gold Rush (1861, 1949). Only the chapter relating to events after the Mariposa Indian War are reproduced online.
• Carleton E. Watkins (Carleton Emmons Watkins), landscape photographer (1829-1916)
  • Early Yosemite landscape photographs
  • Photographs appearing in The Yosemite Book (1869)
• Gerald F. Wieczorek, geologist (1953-)
  • Rock falls from Glacier Point above Camp Curry, Yosemite National Park, California (1999) co-author with James B. Snyder (USGS website)
• Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr., geologist (1819 -1896)
  • The Yosemite Book: a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California (1869)
• John Harvey Williams, writer (1864-?)
  • Yosemite and its High Sierra (1914). Early Yosemite guidebook with several photographs (some by Francis Farquhar) and color paintings by Chris Jorgensen. Scanned from a copy in Yosemite Research Library.
• Sarah Winnemucca See Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
• Y
• Thérèse Yelverton (Viscountess Avonmore), travel writer (ca. 1832-36 - 1881),
  • Zanita: A Tale of the Yo-semite (1872)
• Yosemite Natural History Association
  • Yosemite Nature Notes (Yosemite Valley: Yosemite Natural History Association, 1922-1985)
• Yosemite Association
  • Yosemite (El Portal: Yosemite Association, 1986-2010). Quarterly journal
• Yosemite Conservancy
  • Yosemite Conservancy (San Francisco: Yosemite Conservancy, 2010-). Annual journal
• Yosemite Fund
  • Approach (San Francisco: Yosemite Fund, 1990-2010). Quarterly journal. 2008-2010 online.
• Yosemite Park and Curry Company
  • Yosemite Sentinel (1941-) Newsletter of the park concessionaire, Yosemite Park and Curry Company [PDF]
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Paul J. Zinke, professor (1920-2006)
• Vegetational Changes in Yosemite Valley (NPS, 1978)
• Anonymous
  • “The Yo Semity Valley,” Mariposa Gazette October 11, 1855 and Stockton San Joaquin Republican October 16, 1855. Contains an account of an early tourist party to Yosemite Valley
  • “The Yo-hem-i-ty Valley and Falls,” The Country Gentleman,, October 8, 1856. First article published on the east coast on Yosemite. Author was the editor of the California Christian Advocate
  • “The Yohamite Falls, California,” Ballou’s Pictorial Drawing-room Companion (May 21, 1859). Author may be Rev. F. C. Ewer.
  • The Yosemite Valley, and the Mammoth Trees and Geysers of California (Nelons’ Pictorial Guide-books) (c.1870) Author may be W. Nelson.
  • Yosemite Indian Petition to the United States (circa 1891)
  • “Yosemite Indians are Outlaw Piutes” (1956). Author may be the editor, Herb S. Hamlin

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Arranged by date from earliest to present-day.

Selected Yosemite History Websites

• Brief Yosemite history sketch (National Park Service)
• Yosemite Valley Railroad history of a short line RR that operated from 1907 to 1945
• A history of the Yosemite Firefall, an online memorial
• The Library of Congress has an online exhibit “The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920” as part of its American Memory online exhibit
• Pioneer Yosemite History Center Online Tour: historical Yosemite buildings, relocated in Wawona. Interpretive signs and brochures are available at the center. The NPS website has little information on the center, but here’s a good online tour.

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