Nature’s Mountain Mansion focuses exclusively on the critical nineteenth century when Yosemite was "discovered" by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the nation’s most visited national parks.
Nature’s Mountain Mansion focuses exclusively on the critical nineteenth century when Yosemite was "discovered" by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the nation’s most visited national parks.
Gary Noy has taught history at Sierra Community College in Rocklin, California, for more than three decades. He is the editor of Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-Century American West (Nebraska, 1999) and author of Hellacious California! Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State, among other books.
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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Soul of the Ah-wah’-nee: The First People 2. "Earth’s Undecaying Monuments": Geological Formation 3. "The Blood-Swollen God": The Mariposa Indian War and Mariposa Battalion, 1851–1852 4. "The Lark at Heaven’s Gate Sings": Initial Encounters, 1850–1859 5. "Sermons in Stone": John Muir 6. "Enter These Enchanted Woods, You Who Dare": Reverie and Rusticity, 1860–1869 7. "All Places That the Eye of Heaven Visits": Improvements and Irritations, 1870–1889 8. "An Intelligent and Generous Policy towards the Yosemite": Trepidation and Transformation, 1890–1899 Epilogue Source Acknowledgments Sources
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Soul of the Ah-wah’-nee: The First People 2. "Earth’s Undecaying Monuments": Geological Formation 3. "The Blood-Swollen God": The Mariposa Indian War and Mariposa Battalion, 1851–1852 4. "The Lark at Heaven’s Gate Sings": Initial Encounters, 1850–1859 5. "Sermons in Stone": John Muir 6. "Enter These Enchanted Woods, You Who Dare": Reverie and Rusticity, 1860–1869 7. "All Places That the Eye of Heaven Visits": Improvements and Irritations, 1870–1889 8. "An Intelligent and Generous Policy towards the Yosemite": Trepidation and Transformation, 1890–1899 Epilogue Source Acknowledgments Sources
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