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Yosemite Sentinel 1-47 (1941-)
Yosemite Sentinel (YNN) is the
employee newsletter of the Yosemite Park and Curry Company (YPCC) and successor companies,
the private concessionaire for Yosemite National Park.
Listed for each year are selected articles, usually those cited elsewhere.
However, many other worthwhile articles are not listed
(send me a message
if you see any articles I should list—in fact if you are willing to go through and pick out notable articles, let me know also).
Only issues up to 1986 are available online.
Later issues may be available at the Yosemite Research Library in Yosemite Village.
The volume and issue numbering is confused, inconsistent, and duplicative, probably due to the high-turnover in editors, who also had other things to do.
Years are also off by a year in some cases.
The files below are big (1-25MB each),
so be patient downloading each year.
See below for the
history of the Yosemite Sentinel.
- 1941 [PDF]
- 1942 [PDF]
- 1943 [PDF]
- 1944 [PDF]
- 1945 [PDF]
- 1946 [PDF]
- 1947 [PDF]
- 1948 [PDF]
- 1949 [PDF]
- 1950 [PDF]
- 1951 [PDF]
- 1952 [PDF]
- 1953 [PDF]
- 1954 [PDF]
- 1955 [PDF]
- 1956 [PDF]
- “Lee Mee Dies in Mariposa,” Yosemite Sentinel, December 9, 1956
- 1957 [PDF]
- 1958 [PDF]
- 1959 [PDF]
- 1960 [PDF]
- 1961 [PDF]
- “Pilot Unit Erected in Housekeeping Camp,” Yosemite Sentinel, August 25, 1961.
- 1962 [PDF]
- 1963 [PDF]
- 1964 [PDF]
- 1965 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “Perpetual Wonder,” Yosemite Sentinel, July 23, 1965, p. 3.
- 1966 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “Bread & Butter Notes,” Yosemite Sentinel, May 18, 1966, p. 2.
- Tressider, Mary Curry, “In Memorium Enid and Charles Michael,” Yosemite Sentinel, May 18, 1966, pp. 1, 4.
- Summer 1966 issue.
Separate newletter intended for visitors on 50th anniversary of
the National Park Service
- 1967 [PDF]
- 1968 [PDF]
- 1969 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “A Feast of Robins,” Yosemite Sentinel, April, 1969.
- 1970-1973: not published
- 1974 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “The Good Old Days,” [Kenneyville] Yosemite Sentinel, December 6, 1974, p. 3.
- Anonymous, “The Good Old Days [Yosemite Ski School]/1974,” Yosemite Sentinel, November 1975 (1974?), p. 3.
- Anonymous, “The Birth of the [Yosemite] Sentinel,” Yosemite Sentinel, November 1975 (1974?), p. 6.
- 1975 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “The Good Old Days,” [Ranger Bert Sault] Yosemite Sentinel, January 10, 1975, p. 2.
- Sargent, Shirley, “Pictures from the Past: Yosemite Lodge in 1915,” Yosemite Sentinel, February 7, 1975, p. 3.
- Johnston, Hank, “The Great Yosemite Logging Operations,” Yosemite Sentinel 13(2) (February 21, 1975)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Pictures from the Past,” [Armistice, 1918] Yosemite Sentinel, March 7, 1975, p. 2.
- Sargent, Shirley, “Pictures from the Past,” [Grand Opening of the New Village Store, 1959 and Jack Ring] Yosemite Sentinel, March 14, 1975, no. 16, p. 3.
- Sargent, Shirley, “The Good Old Days,” [Indian Field Days] Yosemite Sentinel, 2(18):3 (March 28, 1975)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Picture from the Past: Yosemite Valley Schools,” Yosemite Sentinel, April 18, 1975, p. 3.
- Sargent, Shirley, “Picture from the Past: Ahwahnee Hotel at War,” Yosemite Sentinel, May 16, 1975, p. 3.
- Anonymous, “Shirley Sargent Honored by Rotary Club,” Yosemite Sentinel, June 20, 1975, p. 2
- Dillon, Richard, “Book Preview,” [Yosemite and Its Innkeepers] Yosemite Sentinel, June 20, 1975, p. 29
- Sargent, Shirley, “Picture from the Present,” [Ryoko Azuma] Yosemite Sentinel, 44(1) (August 1, 1975)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Link with the Past: Marjorie Curry Williams,” Yosemite Sentinel, August 15, 1975, p. 1.
- Sargent, Shirley, “Yosemite’s First Rock Climber,” [George Anderson] Yosemite Sentinel, October 10, 1975, p. 2.
- Anonymous, “Shirley Sargent’s Party,” Yosemite Sentinel, 15(6):1-2 (October 24, 1975)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Yosemite’s First Rock Climber,” [George Anderson] Yosemite Sentinel, October 10, 1975, p. 2.
- Sargent, Shirley, “Pictures from the Past: Gladys Gordon Mee, 1919-1975,” Yosemite Sentinel, November 28, 1975, p. 2.
- 1976 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “Pictures from the Past: the Birdman of Yosemite,” Yosemite Sentinel, 2(8):3 (January 16, 1976)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Picture from the Past: Jean Hanna Clark, 1919-1976,” Yosemite Sentinel, 2(13):3 (February 20, 1976)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Morgenson Wildflower Book Published,” Yosemite Sentinel, 17(2):3 (March 19, 1976)
- Oehlmann, Hil, “Winter Skiing before Badger,” Yosemite Sentinel, March 26, 1976, p. 3.
- Anonymous, “‘Yosemite’s Yesterdays’ Class Offered,” Yosemite Sentinel, 22(4) (April 23, 1976)
- Sargent, Shirley, “The Day before Yesterday at Camp Curry, Yosemite Sentinel, 2(22):2 (April 23, 1976); 2(23):4 (April 30, 1976); 2(26):2 (May 21, 1976); 2(28):2 (June 4, 1976)
- Sargent, Shirley, “A Yosemite Oldtimer [Bert Sault],” Yosemite Sentinel, 2(37):2-3 (August 1976)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Return of a Native [Mae Kenney Butler] Yosemite Sentinel, 2(39):2 (September 1976)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Yosemite’s Pioneering Tourist Service,” Yosemite Sentinel, 2(40):4 (November 1976)
- 1977 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “Camp Hoyle of Wawona,” Yosemite Sentinel, 3(3):4-5 (February, 1977)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Pictures from the Past,” [tule elk] Yosemite Sentinel, 3(5):3 (April, 1977)
- Sargent, Shirley, Old Master of Yosemite,” [Gunnar Widforss] Yosemite Sentinel, 4(2):3 (December 1977)
- 1978 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “Pictures from the Past,” [Onas Ward] Yosemite Sentinel, 4(6):4-5 (April, 1978)
- 1979 [PDF]
- 1979
- Sargent, Shirley, “Picture from the Past,” [Rusty Rust] Yosemite Sentinel, 5(3):5 (March 1979)
- Sargent, Shirley, “A Stagedriver of Yosemite,” Yosemite Sentinel, 5(4):5 (April, 1979)
- 1980 [PDF]
- Anonymous, “Yosemite Almost Hosted 1932 Olympics,” Yosemite Sentinel, 6(2):3 (February, 1980)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Life at South Entrance,” Yosemite Sentinel, 6(2):5 (February, 1980)
- Sargent, Shirley, “People of the Past,” [Herbert Earl Wilson and Elsie May Hoyle] Yosemite Sentinel, 6(3):7 (March 1980)
- Sargent, Shirley, “Who is W. H. O.?,” [Wendell H. Otter] Yosemite Sentinel, 6(5):4 (May 1980)
- “Dana Clark Morgenson 1908-1980,” Yosemite Sentinel, 6(11):1-8 (special issue, circa October 1980)
- 1981 [PDF]
- 1982 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “The Day before Yesterday,” Yosemite Sentinel, 8(8):6 (August 1982)
- 1983 [PDF]
- Sargent, Shirley, “A Half Century of Faithful Service: Wawona Tunnel,” Yosemite Sentinel, 9(9):2 (July 1983)
- 1984 [PDF]
- 1985 [PDF]
- 1986 [PDF]
- Hardy, Edward, “A Message from the President: Yosemite Park and CUrry Company Service Responsibilities,“ Yosemite Sentinel 12(3):3 (March 1986)
- 1987
- Sargent, Shirley, “Yosemite Heroes,” Yosemite Sentinel, 8(6):1-2 (June 1987)
- 1988
- 1989
- 1990
- Series of articles based on Yosemite & Its Innkeepers, in Yosemite Sentinel, 16(2):3 (May 1990); 16(3):5-6 (July 1990); 16(4)1-7,11-12 (October 1990)
- Anonymous, “Solomons of the Sierra,” [book review] Yosemite Sentinel, June 1990, p. 6
- 1991
- Anonymous, “Shirley’s Home!” [Shirley Sargent] Yosemite Sentinel, 17(3):7 (September-October 1991)
- 1992
- 1993
- “Tuolumne Meadows Trio,” focus section (September/October 1993). Photo and text about Carl Sharsmith
- 1994
- 1995
- Anonymous, “Shirley Sargent Receives the Yosemite Fund Award,” Yosemite Sentinel, 20(1):4 (Spring 1995)
History of the Yosemite Sentinel
The November 1974
issue provides a brief history of the Yosemite Sentinel
(misidentified as November 1975).
The first issue was called The Lost Arrow and was issued by a
group of employees calling themselves the Yosemite Club with the backing
of the Yosemite Park and Curry Company. the name changed to The Yosemite Sentinel
in the second issue, November 6, 1941, with which this run begins.
In the latter part of 1942 the Sentinel was taken over by the
Curry Company which has continued publication of the paper to the present.
The paper contains community as well as company news with articles
from people across the spectrum of the local community. Its publication
schedule and format have changed many times. the Christmas issue of the
early years was always the issue closest to Christmas, most often with
a format different from the rest of the year’s issues. in 1960 the
Sentinel became a glossy 8 1/2" x 11" paper of four or more pages.
The gap in publication between the issues of October 17, 1969, and
November 1974 occurred at a time of changes in the Yosemite Park and
Curry Company. the Curry family control of the company ended with Mary
Curry Tressider’s death on October 29, 1970, after which stock purchases
gave control first to the Shasta Corporation and then to U. S. Natural Resources, Inc.
The Music Corporation of America (MCA) bought the controlling
interest in August 1973, and Ed Hardy became the company’s Chief Executive Officer
January 1, 1974. a new stability inside the company, combined with
an interest in employees and community, lead to the republication of the
Sentinel beginning in November 1974. in 1987 the Yosemite Sentinel
continues to be a monthly publication of varying length representing
company and community.
Many historical articles are by Shirley Sargent, who worked as the historian
for the YPCC.
Bibliographical Information
Yosemite Sentinel
(Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Park and Curry Company, 1941-).
30 cm. Ill.
Copies provided courtesy of Dr. Hal Rothman (1958-2007), formerly Professor of History at UNLV.
http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/yosemite_sentinel/