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The following books on Yosemite National Park Creation and Management are available online, with the complete text and usually the original illustrations.

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• Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report by Frederick Law Olmsted (1865)
• The Yosemite Book: a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California, by Josiah Dwight Whitney, Jr. (1869)
• “Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park,” The Century Magazine, by John Muir (1890)
• 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, . . ., by James Mason Hutchings (1888)
• “The Treasures of the Yosemite,” The Century Magazine, by John Muir (1890)
• Our National Parks, by John Muir (1901)
• The Yosemite, by John Muir (1912)
• Handbook of Yosemite National Park by Ansel F. Hall (1922)
• Early Days in Yosemite (1964). Originally published as “A Plea for Yosemite” in 1927 from a manuscript written c. 1907.
• Yosemite Sentinel (1941-). Published by Yosemite Park and Curry Company.
• Guardians of the Yosemite (1961) by John W. Bingaman
• Refined Burning Prescriptions for Yosemite National Park (1975) by Jan W. van Wagtendonk (NPS website)
• Vegetational Changes in Yosemite Valley (NPS, 1978) by Harold F. Heady and Paul J. Zinke
• Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness, by Alfred Runte (University of Nebraska Press, 1990). Online at NPS website
• Yosemite: The Park and Its Resources, (NPS, 1987) by Linda W. Greene. Detailed technical reference on historical park resources, with an extensive bibliography

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Last updated 27 February 2023.

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