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Yosemite Trails (1911) by J. Smeaton Chase

Title page Preface Contents Illustrations Part 1: Yosemite and the Sequoias 1. A General Survey of the Yosemite Valley 2. The Principal Rock-Features of The Valley 3. Some Observations on the Nomenclature of The Valley 4. A Circuit of Yosemite Rim: Fort Monroe to the Little Yosemite 5. A Circuit of Yosemite Rim: the Little Yosemite to The Tuolumne Meadows 6. A Circuit of Yosemite Rim: the Tuolumne Meadows to Yosemite Falls 7. A Circuit of Yosemite Rim: Yosemite Falls to the Big Oak Flat Road 8. The Forests of The Yosemite Region 9. The Great Sequoias 10. The Wawona Country 11. Rafaelito: an Interlude Part 2: The High Sierra 12. The High Sierra: The Yosemite Valley to The Hetch-Hetchy 13. The High Sierra: The Hetch-Hetchy to The Till-Hill 14. The High Sierra: The Till-Hill to Lake Benson 15. The High Sierra: Lake Benson to Lake Tenaya 16. Bodie: “Well, Sir—” 17. The High Sierra: Lake Tenaya to Mono Lake 18. The High Sierra: Mono to Gem Lake 19. The High Sierra: Gem Lake to The Little Yosemite Map Index

Illustrations Half-Dome from the East Yosemite Falls Yosemite Valley The Sentinel Half-Dome Cathedral Peak A Mountain Meadow in the Forest Belt Great Sequoias A Trail in the Wawona Forest El Capitan from the Big Oak Flat Road Hetch-Hetchy Our Lake in Jack Main Cañon Mount Dana and Jessie Lake Looking Eastward from Mount Dana, Mono Lake in the Distance Rush Creek and the Crest of The Sierra Mount Lyell with Its Glacier Map

About the Author

J. Smeaton Chase wrote several books on California, based on travels on his horse Kaweah. Author Edmund C. Jaegar wrote in the 1952 Palm Springs Villager that Chase was energetic and

“a middle-aged man of excellent posture. . . . He wore riding breeches and leather puttees, a brown tweed coat and broad brimmed Stetson hat. . . . I found him to be a thorough son of the open, a delightful conversationalist, full of good humor and the best sort of subtle English wit.”

Chase’s books include:

• Cone-Bearing Trees of the California Mountains (1911)
• California Coast Trails (1913) and reprinted several times
• California Desert Trails (1919)
• California Padres and their Missions (1915). Co-author
• The Penance of Magdalena and Other Tales of the California Missions (1915)
• La Conquista del Desierto (1918). Co-author
• Our Araby: Palm Springs and the the Garden of the Sun (1920 and 1923)

More information:

• J. Smeaton Chase (Wikipedia biography)
• “Two New Yosemite Classics,” Yosemite 51(1):8-9 (Winter 1989) by Jim Snyder. Review of the 1987 reprint of Yosemite Trails
• J. Smeaton Chase Project to post Chase books online
• “Desert Photographer’s Chronicle Lives with Detail. Author Joseph Smeaton Chase Left a Record of California Seen through his Eyes,” Riverside, California Press-Enterprise, June 15, 2002 by Shannon Starr
• “‘Yosemite Trails’ Described By a Nature-Lover Who Has the Eye of an Artist and the Pen of a Poet” (book review), New York Times April 9, 1911, p. BR209
• “Yosemite Trails” review by C. W. Hotchkiss, Bulletin of the American Geographical Society 43(12):923 (1911)

Bibliographical Information

J. Smeaton Chase (Joseph Smeaton) (1864-1923), Yosemite Trails: Camp and Pack-Train in the Yosemite Region of the Sierra Nevada (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911). Copyright 1911 by J. Smeaton Chase. LCCN 11005255. 11+354 pages. Illustrated. 22 cm. Bound in dark blue board with gilt lettering on front and spine. Library of Congress call number F868.Y6 C4.

Reprinted as a trade paperback in 1987 by Tioga Publishing Company. The first (1911) printing is used for this web edition.

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