The following Yosemite books are at Yosemite Online Library, arranged by date available. Unless otherwise stated, books have the complete text and original illustrations. This list is arranged in reverse chronological order (newest first), back to July 2004. The purpose of this listing is to help librarians and others who index these collections in making updates, and to let those interested in online Yosemite books to learn of new book postings. LCCN numbers, when known, are on the home page for each book.

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2012 What’s New

2012 What’s New

2011 What’s New

November 2011:
Yosemite (1986-2010) Quarterly Journal of the former Yosemite Association (YA). Steven Medley, editor. Several articles on Yosemite natural history, human history, and conservation and preservation issues for Yosemite National Park. PDF file format.

2009 What’s New

December 2009:
Yosemite Valley: An Intimate Guide (1929) by Ansel F. Hall. Popular guide book with illustrations by one of Yosemite's first ranger naturalists. Includes several Euroamerican and Indian place names no longer in use and obscure points of interest.
August 2009:
Guide to Yosemite (1920) by Ansel F. Hall. Early guide book to roads and trails in Yosemite by one of Yosemite's first ranger naturalists. Includes and locates several Euroamerican and Indian place names no longer in use.
May 2009:
The Yosemite Valley, and the Mammoth Trees and Geysers of California (c1870) Early tour book with color plates of Yosemite Valley and Giant Sequoia Groves.
April 2009:
A Climber’s Guide to the High Sierra (1954) Classic climber guidebook written by several Sierra Club climbers and edited by Hervey Voge.

2008 What’s New

August 2008:
Wawona Covered Bridge Restoration, 1957 Photos taken by Glenn Gordo, who supervised the restoration project after the 1955 flood.
May 2008:
The Four Seasons in Yosemite National Park (1938) photographs by Ansel Adams; edited by Stanley E. Plumb

2007 What’s New

December 2007:
Yosemite Trails: Camp and Pack-Train in the Yosemite Region of the Sierra Nevada (1911) by J. Smeaton Chase. Early account of travel through the Yosemite backcountry
November 2007:
Yosemite Wildflower Trails (1975). Text and photographs by Dana C. Morgenson. Based on notes by Mary Curry Tressider.
The Four Seasons of Yosemite Text and photographs by Dana C. Morgenson (1980). Yosemite pictorial.
Yosemite Tales and Trails (1934) by Katherine Ames Taylor. Yosemite history and narrative, with photographs by Ansel Adams.
Lights and Shadows of Yosemite: Being a Collection of Favorite Yosemite Views, Together with a Brief Account of Its History and Legends, for Those Who Want to Know and Enjoy Yosemite More (1926). Yosemite history and narrative, Yosemite Indian Legends, by Katherine Ames Taylor, with photographs by Ansel Adams, De Cou, Harry Best, Charles M. Hiller, James V. Lloyd, Arthur C. Pillsbury, George E. Stone, Frank J. Taylor (author’s husband), Alex Wiederseder, Camp Curry Studio, and City of San Francisco.
October 2007:
A General Index to Yosemite Nature Notes 1922-1936 by Hazel Hunt Voth (Berkeley: NPS, 1937). Published by NPS with the cooperation of the WPA and CCC. PDF format (10MB).
Yosemite quarterly journal indexed for 1986 to present (author and titles). Published by Yosemite Association.
A General Index to Yosemite Nature Notes 1922-1936 by Hazel Hunt Voth (Berkeley: NPS, 1937). Published by NPS with the cooperation of the WPA and CCC. PDF format (10MB).
“Basket Makers” (1901) by George Wharton James Discusses California basketmakers, including Yosemite Indian baskets, and Yosemite Indian culture around 1900.
September 2007:
Ebook formats now available for most books: plain text (zip compressed), HTML with image links (zip compressed), Plucker (with and without images), Palm Pilot Doc PDB format (no images), Mobipocket ebook, Sony LRF, iSilo format, PDF format, and Grade 2 Braille (BRF). Ebook links are at the bottom of the main webpage for each book.
Yosemite volumes 41-47 (1970-1985). Resumed publication in October 1970, initially as a newsletter, for the first time since publication halted in 1962. Issued by the Yosemite Natural History Association. PDF format.
August 2007:
A Familiar Letter from a Daughter to Her Mother (1871) by Alice Ives Van Schaack. Letter by a young woman visiting Yosemite with a tourist party in 1871. The letter focuses more on interpersonal dynamics among the party, rather than what they saw, and makes for an interesting letter.
Yosemite: Where to Go and What to Do (1888) by George G. MacKenzie
Call of Gold: True Tales on the Gold Road to Yosemite (1936) by Newell D. Chamberlain This history of the Gold Rush, in the southern mining camps west of Yosemite, is based on newspaper accounts and pioneer interviews.
François Matthes and the Marks of Time; Yosemite and the High Sierra (1962) by François E. Matthes. A posthumous collection of popular articles by François Matthes, mostly from the Sierra Club Bulletin
Sam Ward in the Gold Rush (1861, 1949) by Samuel Ward. Only the chapter relating to events after the Mariposa Indian War are reproduced online.
“Pai-u’-ti” [Paiute] chapter from Stephen Power’s Tribes of California (1877). Includes a section on the Mono. Chapters on the Miwok and Yosemite appeared previously.
“The Mono” from Krober’s Handbook of the Indians of California (1919). The chapter on the Miwok appeared previously.
Miwok geography articles
- “Distribution and Classification of the Mewan [Miwok] Stock of California,” American Anthropologist 9(2):338-357 (April/June 1907) [PDF] by C. Hart Merriam. Includes a map.
- “The Geography and Dialects of the Miwok Indians,” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 6(2):333-368 (February 1908) [PDF] by S. A. Barrett Includes a map.
- “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] by A. L. Kroeber (Rebuttal to Dr. Merriam’s 1907 article.)
“Yosemite: The Story of an Idea” (1948) by Hans Huth In 2000 David Brower said this “was one of the most important articles the [Sierra] Club ever published.”
Yosemite Nature Notes and Yosemite, volumes 1-40 (1922-1962) complete: 40 volumes, 493 issues, and 4974 pages
May 2007:
The Devil Postpile National Monument, by Richard J. Hartesveldt (1952)
April 2007:
Historic Yosemite National Park maps: Yosemite Valley 1902, 1933, 1937, 1949, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1969, & 1973. Yosemite National Park 1933, 1949, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1969, 1973. Some maps provided by Scott Tipton.
Proposed dam sites in 1889 for Lake Eleanor, Little Yosemite Valley, Tenaya Lake, and Tuolumne Meadow.
“Guide to the Pioneer Cemetery,” Yosemite Nature Notes 38(5):58-74 (1959) by Lloyd W. Brubaker, Laurence V. Degnan, and Richard R. Jackson. Yosemite Valley Pioneer Cemetery located next to the Visitor Center
Bears of Yosemite by M. E. Beatty, from Yosemite Nature Notes 22(1) (January 1943). Copy provided by Scott Tipton
Yosemite Valley Place Names by Richard J. Hartesveldt, from Yosemite Nature Notes 34(1) (January 1955). Copy provided by Scott Tipton
February 2007:
Hutchings’ Illustrated California Magazine (1856-1861) Features stories about California, including Yosemite Valley, Giant Sequoias, and the Sierra Nevada. PDF format.
Yosemite Sentinel (1941-). Newsletter of the Yosemite Park and Curry Company, the park concessionaire. PDF format.
January 2007:
Self-guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite National Park (1956) by Richard P. Ditton and Donald E. McHenry
“Yosemite Indians are Outlaw Piutes,” The Pony Express (March 1956)
Guide to Tuolumne Meadows Trails (1959) by Allan Shields

2006 What’s New

December 2006:
Fishes of Yosemite National Park by Willis A. Evans and Orthello L. Wallis (1941, 1948)
Geologic History of the Yosemite Valley by François E. Matthes (1930). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 160. A classic study in glacial geology. (NPS website)
November 2006:
Yosemite. Partial list of articles from Yosemite, journal of the Yosemite Association (1985-)
Yosemite Nature Notes. Partial list of articles from Yosemite Nature Notes, former journal of the Yosemite Natural History Association (1922-1985)
The Cone-bearing Trees of Yosemite (1939) by James E. Cole
Broadleaved Trees of Yosemite National Park (1947)
October 2006:
Yosemite: The Park and Its Resources (NPS, 1987) by Linda Wedel Greene. Detailed technical reference on historical park resources, with an extensive bibliography
“Yosemite’s Pioneer Cabins” (1951) by Robert F. Uhte
September 2006:
Ferns of the Sierra (1960) by Robert J. Rodin
Principal Waterfalls of the World (1945) by C. Frank Brockman
A Guide to the Mother Lode Country (1948) by C. Frank Brockman
August 2006:
Yosemite Indian Petition to the United States (circa 1891) by Anonymous
Census of Non-reservation California Indians, 1905-1906 (1971) by Charles E. Kelsey. Robert F. Heizer, ed. Only Yosemite-area counties are on this web edition
June 2006:
The Tioga Road; a History 1883-1961 (1961, rev. 1980) by Keith A. Trexler
May 2006:
The Old Stagedriver’s Yosemite Yarns (1962) by Laurence Degnan and Douglass H. Hubbard
Ghost Mines of Yosemite (1958) by Douglass H. Hubbard
April 2006:
The Atlantic to the Pacific: What to See and How to See it (1873) by John Erastus Lester
March 2006:
The Yo-semite, Its History, its Scenery, its Development (1873) by John Erastus Lester
January 2006:
The Last of the California Rangers (1928) by Jill L. Cossley-Batt. Biography of William Howard, including information on the California State Rangers, Mariposa Battalion, discovery of Yosemite, and Joaquin Murieta.

2005 What’s New

December 2005:
Life Among the Piutes (1883) by Sarah Winnemucca. Written by a Northern Paiute princess about her people, who lived east of the Sierra Nevada.
“Early Years in Yosemite” (1926) by Carl P. Russell
November 2005:
The Big Oak Flat Road (1955) by Irene D. Paden and Margaret E. Schlichtmann
October 2005:
Miwok Material Culture: Indian Life of the Yosemite Region (1933) by S. A. Barrett and E. W. Gifford
Eadweard J. Muybridge photographs added to Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties (1868) by John S. Hittell. Photographs courtesy of The Yale Collection of Western Americana, The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
“Does it Pay to Visit Yo Semite?,” The Galaxy (1870) by Olive Logan
September 2005:
The Geologic Story of Yosemite National Park by Dr. N. King Huber (1987). Authorative description of Yosemite geology.
August 2005:
“On Foot in the Yosemite,” Atlantic Monthly (1910) by Bradford Torrey
July 2005:
Granite Crags (1884) by Lady Constance F. Gordon-Cumming. Later reprinted as Granite Crags of California.
Hutchings July 1855 Tourist Party (from Mariposa Gazette, August 9, 1855)
Reptiles and Amphibians of Yosemite National Park (1946) by M. V. Walker.
Ahwahnee Village. Online web exhibit based on exhibit signs from a recreated Miwok village behind the Visitor Center in Yosemite Valley.
Pioneer Yosemite History Center Online Tour (2005) by Dan Anderson. Not a book, but a online web exhibit.
“Notes on Hetch-Hetchy Valley” (1868) by Charles F. Hoffmann. Includes notes on Miwok and Paiute people, and early European settlers.
June 2005:
Pathways: A Story of Trails and Men (1968) by John W. Bingaman
May 2005:
Mammals of Yosemite National Park (1962) by Harry C. Parker
Bits of Travel at Home (1878) by Helen Hunt Jackson. Includes a travel account to California by railroad and to Yosemite.
The Trees of Yosemite; a Popular Account. Revised ed. (1948) by Mary Curry Tresidder. Linoleum prints by Della Taylor Hoss
Zanita: A Tale of the Yo-semite (1872) by Thérèse Yelverton. Fictional novel about Yosemite, including gimpses of a young John Muir
April 2005:
Birds of Yosemite National Park (1954, 1963) by Cyril A. Stebbins and Robert C. Stebbins
Wawona’s Yesterdays (1961) by Shirley Sargent
Two Weeks in the Yosemite and Vicinity (1873, 1883) by Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. D.
An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859 (1860) by Horace Greeley. First account of Yosemite to be widely distributed on the east coast
March 2005:
A Guide to the Giant Sequoias of Yosemite National Park (1949) by James W. McFarland
A Brief Story of the Geology of Yosemite Valley (1943) by M. E. Beatty
January 2005:
Southern Sierra Miwok Language (1964) by Sylvia M. Broadbent