Home A - Z FAQ Online Library Discussion Forum Muir Weather Maps About Search
Online Library: Title Author California Geology History Indians Muir Mountaineering Nature Management


One Hundred Years in Yosemite (1947) by Carl P. Russell

Woodcut from title page of the first edition (1931)
Woodcut from title page of
the first edition (1931)

About the Author

Carl P. Russell and Betty Russell (1925), from NPS Uniforms #3
Carl and Betty Russell
1925 (NPS)
(so much for Prohibition)
Carl Parcher Russell, historian, ecologist, and administrator, was born January 18, 1894 in Fall River, Wisconsin. He joined the National Park Service (NPS) in 1923 as a Naturalist in Yosemite National Park. In 1931 he received a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Michigan. He served as an officer for the NPS for 34 years, from 1923 to his retirement in 1957. He specialized in frontier history, studying its material culture in minute detail, and documented pioneer life for the NPS and others.

Dr. Russell served in several regional positions in the NPS, including NPS Chief Naturalist, regional director, and Yosemite National Park Superintendent. Dr. Russell retired from the park service in 1957 and died June 19, 1967. Besides several editions of One Hundred Years in Yosemite, he wrote Guns on the Early Frontiers in 1957, and, published posthumously, Firearms, Traps and Tools of the Mountain Men.

For more information see the WSU Libraries’ biographical sketch. WSU Special Collections is the depository for his papers. More Russell papers are in the Bancroft Library. See also John Bingaman’s biographical sketch in Chapter 23 of Guardians of the Yosemite (1961)



Bibliographical Information

Carl Parcher Russell
Carl P. Russell
Carl P. Russell (Carl Parcher Russell) (1894-1967), One Hundred Years in Yosemite; The Story of a Great Park and Its Friends 2d. ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962), 2d. ed. copyright 1947 by The Regents of the University of California. LCCN 47-030335. xviii, 226 pages. Illustrated. 23 cm. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on black on spine. Dust jacket. LCCN 47-030335. Library of Congress call number F868.Y6 R8 1947. Foreword by Newton B. Drury.

The Documents section in the appendices is from the first edition (pp. 170-202), published 1931 by Stanford University. It was omitted in the second edition published in 1947. The second edition also omits several photographs that were in the 1931 edition. The third edition (1957) is the last edition edited by Dr. Russell.

Digitized by Dan Anderson, December 2004, from a personal copy. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice is left intact.
    —Dan Anderson, www.yosemite.ca.us

Ebook formatsNo images:Plain text zipPluckerHTML zipPalm DocPalm zTXTSony LRFBraille Grade 2 BRF
Images:PDFPluckeriSiloKindle/Mobipocket

Home A - Z FAQ Online Library Discussion Forum Muir Weather Maps About Search
Online Library: Title Author California Geology History Indians Muir Mountaineering Nature Management

http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/one_hundred_years_in_yosemite/