One Hundred Years in Yosemite: a Project Gutenberg eBook

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——. “Hetch Hetchy Water Flows into San Francisco,” Yosemite Nature Notes, 1934. pp. 89-91.

Taylor, Ray W. Hetch Hetchy: The Story of San Francisco’s Struggle to Provide a Water Supply (1926).

Thomson, Charles G. “Hiding Yosemite’s Visitors,” American Civic Annual, 1932, pp. 26-30.

——. “Conservation in the National Parks,” Yosemite Nature Notes, 1935, pp. 1-5.

——. “Ecology of the Wawona Road,” Yosemite Nature Notes, 1937, pp. 38-39.

——. “The Place of National Parks in the State Plan,” American Planning and Civic Annual, 1937, pp. 240-243.

Tileston, John Boies. Letters of John Boies Tileston (privately printed, Boston, 1922), 138 pp.

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Torrey, Bradford. “On Foot in the Yosemite,” Atlantic Monthly, August, 1910, pp. 228-237.

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Tripp, Stephen T. “Memorandum Regarding Churches in Yosemite,” 1941, pp. 1-3, MS in Yosemite Museum.

United States Congress. Chap. clxxxvi of the statutes at large, passed at 30th Congress, Session 1, 1864.

——. [The Yosemite Reservation and the Yellowstone National Park Act], Congressional Globe (June 30, 1872), p. 697.

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——. Proceedings Second Park Naturalists Conference (Washington, D. C., 1940), 368 pp. (mim.).

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——. “Interview with John Degnan, December 13, 1941” (MS in Yosemite Museum), 8 pp.

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——. Yosemite National Park Master Plan [A “conservative device” for regulating physical developments. It is kept up to date. Copies are filed in the park, in the Region Four Office, San Francisco, and in the office of the Director, National Park Service.]

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Wiley, W. H., and S. K. Wiley. The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone (1893), 230 pp., illus.

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Wolfe, Linnie Marsh (ed.). John of the Mountains (Boston, 1938), xxii + 458 pp.

——. Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (New York, 1945), xvii + 364 pp.

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——. History of the United States Naval Special Hospital (Yosemite National Park, 1946), 76 pp.

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FOOTNOTES

[1]The first legislature of the state appointed a committee to report on the derivation and definition of the names of the several counties of California. The report is dated April 16, 1850, and from it is quoted the following:

“In the month of June, 1806 (in one of their yearly excursions to the valley of the rushes—Valle de los Tulares—with a view to hunt elks), a party of Californians pitched their tents on a stream at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, and whilst there, myriads of butterflies, of the most gorgeous and variegated colors, clustered on the surrounding trees, attracted their attention, from which circumstance they gave the stream the appellation of Mariposa. Hence Mariposa River, from which the county (also heavily laden with the precious metal) derives its poetical name.”

[2]Foremost among the references is L. H. Bunnell’s Discovery of the Yosemite, published in 1880. Bunnell was closely associated with Savage during three of his most active years in the Mariposa region; his account is intimate and rich in detail and unprejudiced. We catch an interesting glimpse of Savage, the ’forty-niner, through the pages also of George H. Tinkham’s California Men and Events. Something additional of his gold mining and trading is gleaned from the writings of W. E. Wilde and S. P. Elias. Elliott’s History of Fresno County contributes a number of authenticated incidents, and J. M. Hutchings reveals matters regarding influences that undoubtedly figured in his tragic death. United States Senate documents record his official dealings with the Indians; L. A. Winchell gives some information on his enemies; contemporary newspapers describe his meeting with death; and finally Depositions from the Papers of Geo. W. Wright, One of Two First Congressmen from California, provides papers pertaining to the Court of Claims, 1858, in which appears sworn testimony regarding the shooting of Savage. This last paper formed a part of the Boutwell Dunlap Collection.

[3]Bell (1927) records that the photographer, Vance, made pictures of Savage and his Indians on this occasion.

[4]A muster roll of the Mariposa Battalion appears in Elliott, 1881, and in Russell, 1931, pp. 186-191.

[5]The Walker party, 1833, may have been the first to see the Merced Grove. See p. 8. See also Wegner, J. H., Yosemite Nature Notes (1930), p. 67.

[6]See Fannie Crippen Jones, “The Barnards in Yosemite,” MS in Yosemite Museum.

[7]See Harwell, C. A., Yosemite Nature Notes, 1933, Vol. XII, No. 1.

[8]See Taylor, Mrs. H. J., Yosemite Nature Notes (1929).

[9]Beatty, M. E. “History of the Firefall,” Yosemite Nature Notes (1934), pp. 41-43; and Yosemite Park and Curry Co., 1940, The Firefall, Explanation and History, Yosemite National Park, pp. 1-5.

[10]Camps at these spots first were established in the days of the Desmond Park Service Company, 1916-1918.

[11]A road of sorts crossed Sonora Pass prior to this construction work. Hittell (1911, p. 218) tells of Grizzly Adams’s trip through the pass with a wagon in the Spring of 1854.

[12]See Farquhar, 1926, pp. 15-23.

[13]Joseph LeConte became a faculty member at the University of California in 1869 and made his first trip to Yosemite in 1870. Of that experience, he wrote, “This trip was almost an era in my life.” For the rest of his life, he devoted much time to Sierra studies. He died suddenly in the valley, July 6, 1901. The LeConte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite Valley, built by the Sierra Club in 1903, commemorates his work (see Sierra Club Bulletin, 1904, 1905; Farquhar, 1926, pp. 30-32).

[14]Lt. Montgomery Meigs Macomb, assisted by J. C. Spiller and F. O. Maxson, explored the Yosemite region in 1878 and 1879. Their work was a part of the program of the U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Capt. George M. Wheeler in charge. This program received the general direction of the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army. Macomb's field work yielded the data for a map which was standard in the Yosemite region for many years (see U. S. War Dept., 1879).

[15]In 1879, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey sent a reconnaissance party into the Yosemite high country under the leadership of George Davidson. Mount Conness was occupied on that occasion and again in 1887 and 1890 (see p. 72; also Davidson, 1892).

[16]The United States Geological Survey was organized in 1879 under the direction of Clarence King. In 1882 and 1883, a thorough study was made of the Yosemite high country west of Mono Lake. Israel C. Russell was in charge of this field work. Willard D. Johnson and Grove Karl Gilbert assisted him. These men confirmed some of the original work done by Muir and Joseph LeConte (See U. S. Geological Survey, 1883-84, pp. 31-32, 303-328; 1886-87, I: 261-394; I. C. Russell, 1897, pp. 37-54; Farquhar, 1926, p. 42).

[17]See Ralph H. Lewis, 1941 and 1945; Robert C. Robinson, 1940.

[18]Mount Conness, one of the outstanding peaks in the Tuolumne Meadows region, was named for Senator John Conness by Clarence King, later first director of the United States Geological Survey, but at the time a member of the Whitney Survey. King and James T. Gardiner were the first to climb the peak, making the ascent in 1864. Referring to the mountain, King said that because of its “firm peak with titan strength and brow so square and solid, it seems altogether natural we should have named it for California’s statesman, John Conness.”

[19]Congressional Globe, May 17, 1864, p. 2301.

[20]The Life and Letters of John Muir, I: 207-208.

[21]Gabriel Sovulewski was born in Poland in 1866; he died Nov. 29, 1938. For a synopsis of his work and the activities of others in the military administration, see “Administrative Officers of Yosemite,” by C. Frank Brockman, Yosemite Nature Notes (1944).

[22]Taylor, Mrs. H. J. “Hetch Hetchy Water Flows into San Francisco.” Yosemite Nature Notes (1934), pp. 89-91, Badè, W. F., “The Hetch Hetchy Situation [Editorial],” Sierra Club Bulletin, 9 (1914): 3, 174.

[23]See Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1933, pp. 158-159, for account of the Stephen T. Mather Appreciation and the dedication of Mather Memorial Plaques, presented by that organization.

[24]At that time called Lafayette National Park and since re-named when it was extended to include a portion of the mainland.

INDEX

The following entries refer particularly to narrative pages. For further references, see under appropriate date in Chronology.