num_pages: 258
description: Includes old names Indian names fanciful names and names that won't be missed. The record of who named what and when; quotations from explorers soldiers tourists and rangers; and the peculiar humorous or moving events that gave rise to the names on the maps today. The account of the first tourist group to visit the valley in 1855 is worth the price of the book alone. (The Sacramento Union.)
language: English
title: Yosemite Place Names: The Historic Background Of Geographic Names In Yosemite National Park
publisher: Great West Books