Nature's Mountain Mansion : Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite /

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"Nature's Mountain Mansion is the first anthology on Yosemite that focuses exclusively on the nineteenth century, the critical period in which Yosemite was "discovered" by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the country's most visited national parks. While there...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Noy, Gary, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
NATURE / Regional.
California > Yosemite National Park.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) > Description and travel.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) > History > 19th century > Sources.
Sources.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Soul of the Ah-wah'-nee : The First People
  • "Earth's undecaying monuments" : Geological Formation
  • "The blood-swollen god" : The Mariposa Indian War and the Mariposa Battalion, 1851-1852
  • "The lark at heaven's gate sings" : Initial Encounters, 1850-1859
  • "Sermons in Stone" : John Muir
  • "Enter these enchanted woods, you who dare" : Reverie and Rusticity, 1860-1869
  • "All places that the eye of heaven visits" : Improvements and Irritations, 1870-1889
  • "An intelligent and generous policy towards the Yosemite" : Trepidation and Transformation, 1890-1899.

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