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The Yosemite

Chapter 2: Acknowledgment
By John Muir
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A naturalist recounts his journey to a deep granite valley in the Sierra, blending personal travel narrative with extended natural history and lyrical description. He describes approaches, seasonal weather, snow and storms, glaciers and valley formation, waterfalls and domes, trees (including giant sequoias), flowers and birds, and the variety of cañon and meadow landscapes. Practical chapters advise how to spend time there, and historical sections recount early exploration and debates over preservation and valley management, including a neighboring valley controversy. Appendices provide legislation, distances, and travel rates.

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Title: The Yosemite

Author: John Muir

Release date: December 1, 2004 [eBook #7091]
Most recently updated: June 29, 2022

Language: English

Credits: Dan Anderson and Andrew Sly

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The Yosemite

by John Muir

Affectionately dedicated
to my friend,
Robert Underwood Johnson,
faithful
lover and defender
of our glorious forests
and originator of
the Yosemite National Park.

Acknowledgment

On the early history of Yosemite the writer is indebted to Prof. J. D. Whitney for quotations from his volume entitled “Yosemite Guide-Book,” and to Dr. Bunnell for extracts from his interesting volume entitled “Discovery of the Yosemite.”

Contents

Chapter 1. The Approach to the Valley
Chapter 2. Winter Storms and Spring Floods
Chapter 3. Snow-Storms
Chapter 4. Snow Banners
Chapter 5. The Trees of the Valley
Chapter 6. The Forest Trees in General
Chapter 7. The Big Trees
Chapter 8. The Flowers
Chapter 9. The Birds
Chapter 10. The South Dome
Chapter 11. The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley Was Formed
Chapter 12. How Best to Spend One’s Yosemite Time
Chapter 13. Early History of the Valley
Chapter 14. Lamon
Chapter 15. Galen Clark
Chapter 16. Hetch Hetchy Valley
Appendix A. Legislation About the Yosemite
Appendix B. Table of Distances
Appendix C. Maximum Rates for Transportation