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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Noy, Gary, 1951- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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