num_pages: 280
description: From the time it was sighted by Spanish explorers in the eighteenth century through the creation of the John Muir trail the building of the Hetch Hetchy Dam and the founding of the Sierra Club the great snowy range of California has provided fulfillment to generations of trappers immigrants engineers naturalists and tourists. Now a mountaineering classic this pioneering book was the first to synthesize into a single riveting narrative all of the varied aspects of human endeavor related to the history of the Sierra Nevada. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs drawings and maps the book continues to be indispensable for any lover of the high country.
language: English
title: History of the Sierra Nevada
publisher: University of California Press