Yosemite and Sequoia
A Century of California National Parks
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Yosemite and Sequoia
A Century of California National Parks
About this book
A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to fight private land claims to the valley. By 1890, however, a public park system was firmly established in California when the Yosemite high country and much of what is now Sequoia and King's Canyon National Parks were set aside as federally protected, public preserves. This collection of essays and photographs, originally published as a special issue of California History, documents the creation and management of California's first three national parks. As the essays remind us, the issues of park development so hotly debated today were raised first in Yosemite nearly a century ago. Yosemite's significance in landscape art, its role in the development of western tourism, and its promotion as one of the great icons of American culture are among the other major themes discussed here.
A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next de
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction THE CALIFORNIA NATIONAL PARKS CENTENNIAL
- California National Parks Chronology
- Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF PRESERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- Visiting “The Realm of Wonder" YOSEMITE AND THE BUSINESS OF TOURISM, 1855-1916
- Sublime Vistas and Scenic Backdrops NINETEENTH-CENTURY PAINTERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS AT YOSEMITE
- From Stagecoach to Packard Twin Six YOSEMITE AND THE CHANGING FACE OF TOURISM, 1880-1930
- Joseph Grinnell and Yosemite REDISCOVERING THE LEGACY OF A CALIFORNIA CONSERVATIONIST
- In Harmony with the Landscape YOSEMITE'S BUILT ENVIRONMENT, 1913-1940
- Conservation Conflict and the Founding of Kings Canyon National Park
- Planning Yosemite’s Future A HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE
- Notes
- Index