Wild Yosemite
Subtitle: personal accounts of adventure, discovery and nature
By: edited by Susan M. Neider.
Contributors: Neider, Susan M.
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781602390560
Subjects: Natural history -- California -- Yosemite National Park -- Anecdotes; Adventure and adventurers -- California -- Yosemite National Park -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Explorers -- California -- Yosemite National Park -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Travelers -- California -- Yosemite National Park -- Biography -- Anecdotes; Travelers' writings; Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) -- Description and travel -- Anecdotes; Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Anecdotes; Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Discovery and exploration -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references(.p 281-283).
Table of contents: title: The Sierra Nevada range / Clarence King; title: The great chasm of Yosemite / Frederick Law Olmsted; title: John Muir : an appreciation / Theodore Roosevelt; title: Yosemite glaciers / John Muir; title: How the valley was formed / John Muir; title: The incomparable valley / John Muir; title: Climbing Half Dome / John Muir; title: In the heart of the Sierras / James Mason Hutchings; title: In California, the Yosemite / Horace Greeley; title: Waterfalls and rainbows / John Muir; title: Around Yosemite walls / Clarence King; title: The Domes of the Yosemite / Mark Twain; title: The trees of the valley / John Muir; title: In Yosemite with John Muir / Theodore Roosevelt; title: The Giant Sequoia / John Muir; title: In California, the big trees / Horace Greeley; title: Yosemite in winter / John Muir; title: Riding an avalanche / John Muir; title: Snow banners / John Muir; title: Caught in a Sierra storm / Clarence King; title: A winter earthquake / John Muir; title: The flowers / John Muir; title: The birds / John Muir; title: A close call on the Obelisk / Clarence King; title: How best to spend one's Yosemite time / John Muir.