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![]() Brewer Party of 1864: James T. Gardiner, Richard Cotter, William H. Brewer, and Clarence King |
Bibliographical Information
Clarence King (1842 - 1901),
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
(New York: C. Scribner’s sons, 1902).
xi p., 1 l., 378 pages. 20 cm.
Library of Congress Call Number F868.S5 K52.
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada first appeared, in part, in The Atlantic Monthly, starting with the May 1871 issue (vol. 27, issue 163), and ending with the Dec. 1871 issue (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 5, and 9, respectively). The Atlantic Monthly issues are available as page images from University of Michigan’s Making of America (MOA) digital library. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada first appeared in book form in 1872, published by James Osgood & Co. of Boston (292 pages). This edition came in 2 forms, octavo in green or maroon cloth with gilt lettering and edge, and large paper copies. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle in London also printed the same edition in 1872 (with reset type).
A “fourth edition” appeared in 1874 with v + 308 pages. This edition has additional information about the Mount Whitney (namely, that Mr. King climbed the wrong Peak, and his climb, of 1873, of the real Mt. Whitney.) Note that at the 1994 Yosemite Association reprinting of Mountaineering (and perhaps others) omits this additional material and doesn’t even inform the reader that Mr. King described climbing the wrong peak. The 1874 edition also added maps of California and Southern Sierra Nevada. Reprints of this edition were called the fifth through ninth edition, with no changes.
A genuinely new 1902 edition has xi+378 pages. It has minor corrections. The 1902 edition is used here.
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