J

Jepson, Willis L., 133, 134

John Muir Trail, 83-85

Johnson, Robert Underwood, editor of Century Magazine, 155

Johnston, Adam, quoted, 77

Jorgensen, Chris, 186, 191

Juarez, Chief José, 22-24

K

Kat, William, 88

Kemp, J. C., 119

“Kenneyville” property, 101

King, Clarence:

as geologist, 71, 129;

as mountaineer, 78;

as mapper, 95, 148 n;

quoted, 95-96

Kittredge, Frank A.:

acknowledgment to, xi;

quoted, 171;

biographical notes, 172-173

Kroeber, A. L.:

cited, 75;

writings of, 132

Kuykendall, John J., 25, 36

L

La Casa Nevada, 80, 104-105

Lake, W. B., quoted, 106-107

Lake Mining District, 123

Lamon, James C., first homesteader, 147-150 passim

Lebrado, Maria, last survivor of Yosemites, 25, 47-48

LeConte, J. N., 72, 84, 130, 182, 193

LeConte, Joseph:

as geologist, 130;

first Yosemite trip, 205;

memorial lectures, 188

LeConte Memorial Lodge, 83, 130, 186

Ledge Trail, 107, 188

Leevining Canyon, 46, 122

Leidig, G. F., 95, 101

Leidig’s Hotel, 101-103

Lembert, John B., 119, 185.

See also Tuolumne Soda Springs

Leonard, Archie, 122, 161

Leonard, Richard M., 89

Leonard, Zenas:

as trapper, 4-5;

clerk of Walker party, author of earliest Yosemite document, 5, 6-7, 8

Lewis, Washington B., biographical notes, 167-169

Lewis Memorial Hospital, 190

Littebrant, Major William T., 161

Little Yosemite Trail, 104

Lodges. See Hotels

Longhurst, Peter, 95

Lower Hotel, 56, 93-96

Lundy, 119, 121, 122

Lundy, W. J., 121

M

McCauley, James:

and Glacier Point Mountain House, 108-109;

originator of firefall, 108;

trail builder, 79, 80, 107-108

McClure, Lieut., N. F., 77, 159

McCord, Mark L., 185

McDuffie, Duncan, and Yosemite Advisory Board, 190

McHenry, Donald Edward, 144

McLean, Dr. John T., 61, 62, 63;

quoted, 62

Macomb, Lieut. M. M., 71, 130

Mammoth City, 123, 124

Mammoth City-Fresno Trail, 123-124

Mammoth City Herald, 123, 125

Mammoth City Times, 123

Mann Brothers, Houston and Milton, 50, 51, 92

Maps, 71-73, 77

Maria, last of Yosemites. See Lebrado

Mariposa:

history of, 11, 179;

origin of name, 11-12 n;

pioneers of, 11-12

Mariposa Battalion, 25-26, 36

Mariposa-El Portal-Yosemite Valley Road. See All-Year Highway

Mariposa Estate, 13, 92, 179

Mariposa Gazette and first printed description of Yosemite, 50

Mariposa Grove of Big Trees:

in State Park, 148-149;

discovery, 180;

explored by Galen Clark, 181;

log cabin, 185;

Museum, 190

Mariposa-Hite’s Cove Road, 52

Mariposa [Indian] Trail, 51, 52, 99

Mariposa Indian War. See Indians of Yosemite Valley

Mariposa-Wawona-Yosemite Valley Road, 63

Marshall, James W., 10

Marshall, R. B., 72, 188

Marvin, Judge John G., 30, 31, 32

Master Plan of Yosemite National Park, 80, 86, 174-175

Mather, Stephen T.:

Mountain Party of 1916, 85;

and John Muir Trail, 85;

and National Park Service educational program, 137-138;

appointed Director of National Park Service, 161;

Tioga Road purchased by, 164;

biographical notes, 164-167, 168-173 passim

Matthes, François E., 73, 131

May Lundy Mine, 122

Memorials:

J. D. Savage placque, 35;

LeConte Lodge, 130;

Galen Clark seat, 187;

LeConte lectures, 188;

Parsons Lodge, 188;

Lewis Hospital, 190

Merced Grove of Big Trees, 8

Merced-Wawona Road, 101

Merriam, C. Hart, 132

Merriam, John C., 142

Merriam, Lawrence C., 171-172, 192

Michael, Charles, 88

Michael, Enid, 134-135, 189

Miller, Adolph C., 161

Miller, Loye H., 138;

quoted, 138-140

Mills, Cosie Hutchings (Mrs. Gertrude Hutchings), 59, 60

Mining Districts. See Bodie, Esmeralda, Homer, Lake, Montgomery, Mount Hoffmann, Tioga

Mono Diggings, 118

Mono Indians, strife with Yosemites, 46-48

Mono region mining, 117-128

Mono Trail, 46, 74, 118

Mono Weekly Messenger, 125

Monoville, 118

Montgomery Mining District, 124

Moore, Edwin, 100

Moore, Lieut. Tredwell:

and attack on Yosemite Indians, 46;

Mono explorations of, 46, 117

Moran, Thomas, art collection, 191

Motor vehicles. See Automobiles

Mountain View House. See Peregoy’s

Mountaineering, 26, 78-79, 87-89;

National Park Service policy on, 89.

See also First mountaineering ascents

Mount Dana Summit Mine, 120-121

Mount Hoffmann Mining District, 184

Muir, John:

as mountaineer, 78, 79, 88;

quoted, 79;

as explorer, 84, 182;

death, 84, 188;

as geologist, 130;

writings, 133-134, 155, 183;

as teacher of Yosemite values, 138, 152-156;

as sheepherder in Yosemite, 152-153;

“lumbering operation” of, 153;

in the employ of Hutchings, 153-154;

quoted on his Yosemite cabin by Badè, 153-154.

See also Sierra Club

Muir Trail. See John Muir Trail

Murphy, John L., 184, 185

Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California, 135

N

Nature guiding, 138-141

Neal, Mr. and Mrs. John H., 94

Nuchu Indian camp, 36, 99

O

Oak Cottage, 98

Oastler, Frank R., 141

Olmsted, Frederick Law (elder):

as superintendent of Mariposa Estate, 13;

as chairman, first Board of Yosemite Commissioners, 13, 149;

quoted, 149

Olmsted, Frederick Law (younger):

as National Park Service Collaborator, 14;

appointed to Yosemite Advisory Board, 14

Orchards in Yosemite Valley:

Hutchings’, 98;

Lamon’s, 148

Ostrander Lake Ski Hut, 91, 192

Ostrander’s, 51

P

Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., 187

Packing (animals), 53, 87

Pardee, Gov. Geo. C., 187

Park Naturalists of Yosemite, 144

Parker, Harry C., 136

Parsons Memorial Lodge, 188

Passes used by Indians, 76

Peregoy, Charles E., 51, 105, 107

Peregoy’s Hotel, 51, 105-106

Photographs, first of Yosemite Valley, 56-57

Pilgrim Society, 126

Pine City, 123

Porter, Mrs. Sarah Seton, 17

Presidents visiting Yosemite:

Theodore Roosevelt, 156, 187;

Hayes, 184;

Franklin D. Roosevelt, 192

Presnall, C. C., 136

Private lands. See Yosemite National Park, private lands

R

Radio communications, 191

Railroads:

Central Pacific, 63;

connections with stage routes, 63;

Yosemite Valley, 68, 69-70

Raker, John E., 161-162

Rangers, 158;

organization of, 161;

club house, 189

Raymond, I. W., and Yosemite Grant, 182

Research Reserves, 190

River Cottage, 98

Road policy:

and realignment, 86;

obliteration, 86;

and mountain wilderness values, 86

Roads. See All-Year Highway, Big Oak Flat, Coulterville, El Portal-Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point, Mariposa-Hite’s Cove, Mariposa-Wawona-Yosemite Valley, Sonora Pass, Tioga, Wawona-Merced

Robinson, Charles D., 184

Rock Cottage, 98

Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 162

Rockefeller, Laura Spelman Memorial. See Yosemite Museum

Rodgers, Capt. Alexander, 77, 185

Roosevelt, Theodore, and Antiquities Act of 1906, 156

Rosenblatt, Arthur, 57

Rucker, Maj. L. J., 186

Russell, Carl P., 135, 144

Russell, I. C., 130

S

Saddle parties, 50-60

San Francisco Daily Herald, quoted, 29, 32, 33-34

Savage, James D.:

as trader, 14;

trading posts, 14, 19, 20-21, 23, 24, 25, 26;

role as discoverer of Yosemite Valley, 15;

boyhood, 17;

marriage, 17, 21;

arrival in California, 18;

champion of Indians, 18, 29;

intimacy with Indians, 18, 21;

as white chief of the foothills, 18-35;

associated with Rev. James Woods, 19;

Bunnell quoted on, 19-20;

quoted, 20, 27;

trouble with Indians, 21-27;

described by old Indian, 25;

in command of the Mariposa Battalion, 25, 36, 146;

aid to Indian agents, 26;

as military leader and trailfinder, 26, 75;

quarrel with Harvey, 30-32;

death of, 30-35;

burial, 34

School, Yosemite Valley public, 183

Second U. S. Infantry. See Lieut. Tredwell Moore

Sell, W. M., 187.

See also Camp Ahwahnee

Sentinel Hotel, 98, 112

Sequoia gigantea. See Big Trees

Sharsmith, Carl W., 134

Sheepherder Mine. See Tioga Mine

Sheepmen, trails used by, 77

Sherman, E. A., editor, Esmeralda Star, 126

Shirley, James C., 134

Sierra Club:

acknowledgment to, xi;

and mapping, 72;

and trails, 84, 85-86;

outings, 84, 186;

purposes, 86, 156;

Rock-Climbing Section, 88;

lodges, 130, 186, 188;

and U. S. Geological Survey, 131;

and study of fauna, 135;

and John Muir, 156;

and creation of Yosemite National Park, 156;

and Antiquities Act, 156;

and William E. Colby, 156-157;

and Yosemite recession, 160, 185;

Soda Springs property of, 187

Sierra Club Bulletin, xi, 156

Sierra Telegraph Company, 121

Skiing, 90-91, 173, 191, 193

Smedberg, W. R., 159

Smith, C. E., 103

Smith, Jedediah S.:

in ranks of “Fur Brigade,” 1;

trip to California by, 1, 2;

first white to cross Sierra Nevada, 2, 179

Snow, Albert, 79, 104, 123;

trail built by, 80, 104

Snow surveys of High Sierra, 190

Sonora Pass:

Road, 127;

Trail, 10, 75, 76, 80, 118

Southern Mines, 11

Sovulewski, Gabriel, 159, 187;

quoted, 83, 159-160;

death of, 159, 192

Stagecoach days, 61-70

Stagecoaches:

types of, 64;

replaced in Yosemite by automobiles, 69

Staging, unknown author quoted on, 64-65

Starr, W. A., Jr., guidebook, 73-74

Stoneman House, 101, 111

Storer, Tracy I., 135

Street, Harlow, 183

Sudworth, George B., 133

Survey parties, 71-73

“Ta-bu-ce.” See Howard, Maggie

T

Taylor, Mrs. H. J., x, 132

Telegraph lines, 183, 187

Telephone:

first in Yosemite, 185;

first adequate system in Yosemite, 187

Tenaya, Chief of the Yosemites:

first surrender to whites, 36;

captured by whites, 37, 39;

death of, 46-48;

and Mono Indians, 46-48.

See also Indians of Yosemite Valley

Tenaya Lake:

origin of name, 39;

trail, 46, 187;

and John L. Murphy claim, 184, 185

Thomson, Col. Charles G., 86, 170-171

Tileston, John Boies, 78

Tinkham, George G.:

quoted, 19;

writings of, 16 n

Tioga (settlement), 118, 119

Tioga-Lundy Trail, 121-122

Tioga Mine (Sheepherder), 118, 119

Tioga Mining District, 119, 120, 121

Tioga Road, 81, 120, 164, 170, 192

Toll roads, policy, 163

Toll trails, policy, 79, 80-81, 82, 163

Trading posts. See Savage

Trail policy, 87

Trails. See Anderson’s, Big Oak Flat, Coulterville, Eagle Peak, Echo Wall, Eleven-Mile, Four-Mile, High Sierra, Hite’s Cove, Indian Canyon, John Muir, Ledge, Little Yosemite, Mammoth City-Fresno, Mariposa, Mono, Sonora Pass, Tenaya Lake, Tioga-Lundy, Yosemite Falls

Trask, John B., 129;

quoted, 117

Tresidder, Donald B., 113, 162;

Mary Curry, xi, 113, 134

Tuolumne Grove of Big Trees, 8, 181, 184

Tuolumne Meadows Lodge, 114, 188

Tuolumne Meadows Soda Springs, 119;

purchased by Sierra Club, 187

Tuolumne Meadows trail, 46

Turner, H. W., 130

Twain, Mark, 127

U

U. S. Army:

pioneer activity in Yosemite, 77-78;

in charge of Yosemite National Park, 77, 157-161;

and building of trails, 78;

Wawona headquarters, 157, 185;

and Fort Yosemite, 160;

and Yosemite Arboretum, 187;

first plans for Yosemite Museum made by, 187;

Signal Corps in Yosemite, 192

U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 72

U. S. Forest Service and John Muir Trail, 84, 85

U. S. Geological Survey, 71, 72, 73, 85, 131

U. S. National Park Service:

administration of Yosemite, vii-viii, 161-175 passim;

and trails, 84;

establishment of, 161

U. S. Navy and Special Hospital (Ahwahnee Hotel), 116

U. S. Weather Bureau, 187

Upper Hotel, or Hutchings House, 56, 57, 58, 93, 96-99;

Big Tree Room, 58

V

Vegetation type map, 192

Vining, Lee, 46

Vivian, A. P., quoted, 100-101, 102

W

Wagon:

first, 55, 179;

freight, 64;

mud, 64

Walker, Joseph R.:

with Bonneville, 3, 4, 5;

biographical notes, 3-8;

discovery of Yosemite by, 5, 6-8;

grave, 7;

discoverer of Big Trees, 8

Walker, M. V., 136

Wallace, Miles, 186

Walworth and Hite Hotel, 56, 93

Ward, Marjorie Montgomery, 190

Wartime problems in Yosemite, xii, 116, 149, 173-174, 192, 193

Washburn, Coffman, Chapman, and Company’s:

Mariposa Road, 63;

Wawona Hotel, 99-101

Watkins, C. E., 181

Wawona:

U. S. Army headquarters, 157, 160;

as a Nuchu Indian campsite, 36;

Galen Clark’s ownership, 50-51;

Hotel, 99-101;

Fish Hatchery, 185;

first Yosemite museum planned for, 187.

See also Clark’s Ranch, Clark and Moore’s

Wawona basin, acquisition of, 190

Wawona Road, 170, 191

Wawona Tree, 184

Wawona Tunnel, 170, 191

Weed, C. L., photographs by, 55-56

Westfall’s, 51

Wheeler Survey, 71

Whitney, Josiah D., 71, 78, 129-130;

quoted, 79

Wilbur, Ray Lyman, 142

Wilcox, Capt. E. F., 186

Wildlife studies, 134-137

Winchell, L. A., writings of, 16 n

Winter sports, 90-91, 173

Wolfe, Linnie Marsh, 98

Wood, Capt. Abram Epperson, 158

Wright, George M., 134, 135, 136, 143

Y

Yelverton, Therese, Viscountess Avonmore, 98

Yosemite Advisory Board, 14, 157, 173, 190, 193

Yosemite Chapel, 102, 184

Yosemite Church Bowl, 191

Yosemite Commissioners, Board of:

first chairman, 13, 149;

action on road rights, 62-63, 151-152;

failure of legislation to support, 63, 151-152;

action on trails, 79;

action on homestead claims by, 149-152;

effect upon, of National Park bill, 157;

termination of authority of, 160

Yosemite Education Department:

origin of, 137-145;

objectives, 137-138;

and Yosemite Arboretum, 187.

See also Yosemite Museum, Yosemite Natural History Association, Yosemite Nature Notes, Yosemite School of Field Natural History

Yosemite Falls Hotel. See Sentinel Hotel

Yosemite Falls Trail, 80

Yosemite Grant. See Yosemite State Park

Yosemite Hospital (U. S. Army), 187

Yosemite Lodge, 112, 188

Yosemite Master Plan, 80, 86, 174-175

Yosemite Museum:

acknowledgments to, ix-xi;

and story of Savage, 15;

and Ayres sketches, 48-49;

exhibits in, 104, 133;

organization of, 141-145, 189;

first plans made at Wawona, 187;

new building opened, 189;

Glacier Point branch of, 189;

Garden, 190;

“Live Indian Exhibit,” 190;

and Thomas Moran Collection, 191;

and Chris Jorgensen paintings, 191

Yosemite Museum Association, 144

Yosemite National Park:

exploitation of region of, vii-viii, 154-156, 158, 160, 161-162, 175, 180, 181;

private lands, 149-151, 157, 162-163;

established, 154-157;

State Park within, 155;

championed by Sierra Club, 156-157;

military in charge, 157-161;

boundary revision of, 157, 187

Yosemite National Park Company, 112, 113

Yosemite Natural History Association, 137, 144-145

Yosemite Naturalist Department, 144-145

Yosemite Nature Notes, ix, 144

Yosemite Park and Curry Company:

acknowledgment to, xi;

and Wawona Hotel, 101;

and Glacier Point Hotel, 109;

origin, 112-113;

and Big Trees Lodge, 113;

and High Sierra Camps, 114;

and Ahwahnee Hotel, 115-116

Yosemite School of Field Natural History, 143-144, 192

Yosemite State Park, 148-150, 154-155, 160, 182;

first appropriations for, 151, 152;

established, 155;

encompassed by National Park, 155;

re-ceded to United States, 160

Yosemite Sugar Pine Lumber Company and Carl Inn tract, 70, 162-163

Yosemite Tourist, D. J. Foley quoted in, 66-68

Yosemite Valley:

reserved as State Park, vii, 155, 182;

re-ceded to United States, vii, 160;

discovery by whites, 5, 6-8;

origin of name, 37;

as proposed reservoir site, 92, 147;

homesteads in, 148-151;

dual management of, 157, 160

Yosemite Valley Railroad:

built, 68, 187;

flooded, 69-70;

abandoned, 70

Young, Col. S. B. M., 185, 186

Z

Zevely, J. W., 186

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