Historic Yosemite National Park : the stories behind one of America's great treasures /

The history of Yosemite National Park is as compelling as the waterfalls, monoliths, and peaks that have mesmerized visitors for more than a century. But what hikers see today in the iconic Yosemite Valley, as well as on the peaks in the high country and within the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, is a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salcedo-Chourré, Tracy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2016]
Temas:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) > History.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) > Biography.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) > Histoire.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) > Biographies.
California > Yosemite National Park
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Author's note: on the brilliance of faraway eyes
  • The Ahwahneechee
  • The Mariposa Battalion
  • The cutting edge: the creation and evolution of Yosemite National Park
  • Building an icon: Yosemite's roads, trails, and lodgings
  • The quiet giants: Galen Clark and the big trees
  • John Muir: the wanderer who was never lost
  • Hetch Hetchy
  • Images of Yosemite
  • The climbers
  • Sculpting Yosemite: tales of glaciers and waterfalls
  • Yosemite wildlife
  • Yosemite's furies: wildfire, rockfall, and flood
  • Appendix: Yosemite National Park statistics.

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