Historic Yosemite National Park : the stories behind one of America's great treasures / / Tracy Salcedo

• Autore: Salcedo-Chourré Tracy
• Pubblicazione: Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, , [2016]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.4/47
• Soggetto geografico: Yosemite National Park (Calif.) History; Yosemite National Park (Calif.) Biography
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Author's note: on the brilliance of faraway eyes -- The Ahwahneechee -- The Mariposa Battalion -- The cutting edge: the creation and evolution of Yosemite National Park -- Building an icon: Yosemite's roads, trails, and lodgings -- The quiet giants: Galen Clark and the big trees -- John Muir: the wanderer who was never lost -- Hetch Hetchy -- Images of Yosemite -- The climbers -- Sculpting Yosemite: tales of glaciers and waterfalls -- Yosemite wildlife -- Yosemite's furies: wildfire, rockfall, and flood -- Appendix: Yosemite National Park statistics.
• Sommario/riassunto: The history of Yosemite National Park is as compelling as the waterfalls, monoliths, and peaks that have mesmerized visitors for more than a century. But what hikers see today in the iconic Yosemite Valley, as well as on the peaks in the high country and within the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, is a world away from the place Native Americans once called Ahwahnee, and from what gold-seekers and mountain men looked upon in the park's earliest days. Historic Yosemite National Park is a vibrant collection of stories about different aspects of Yosemite National Park's fascinating history, from the c
• Titolo autorizzato: Historic Yosemite National Park
• ISBN: 1-4930-1812-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814550703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II