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The Yosemite

by John Muir

Contents

List of Illustrations

[Original Cover]

Yosemite Fall

Administrative Map of Yosemite National Park

Yosemite Valley from Artist's Point

Cathedral Rocks and Cathedral Spires as seen across Merced River

Vernal Fall

Nevada Fall--Side View

Vernal Fall

Yosemite Valley in a Snowstorm

The Three Brothers

Looking down Yosemite from the Slope of Clouds' Rest

Looking up Tenaya Cañon from Glacier Point--Mt. Hoffman, covered with snow, to the left

The Mariposa Grove

Fern Gardens and Oak Groves of Hetch-Hetchy Valley

[Photographed by J. W. Le Conte.]

Sentinel Rock, from the Glacier Point Trail

North Dome--Royal Arches--Washington Column--Merced River

Mirror Lake, Mt. Watkins and Slopes of Clouds' Rest

The Half Dome, Clouds' Rest Beyond

The Three Brothers--the left-hand one, Eagle Peak, is the highest

Looking down the Valley from the Glacier Point Trail

Sentinel Rock Cathedral Rocks El Capitan

Sentinel Rock Cathedral Rocks El Capitan Looking up Tenaya Cañon from the Trail to Glacier Point

Echo Peaks on the trail from the Yosemite Valley to the Tuolumne Meadows

Slope of Mt. Dana and Lake Tioga, Tuolumne Meadows

El Capitan

One of the Great Cascades with water whirls--near the upper end of Tuolumne Cañon

[Photographed by W. L. Huber.]

Gem Lake near Mt. Ritter

Looking up Hetch-Hetchy Valley from Surprise Point

[Photographed by Taber, San Francisco.]

A River View across the lower end of Tuolumne Meadows

[Photographed by George R. King.]

Travel-Guide Map of the Yosemite Valley [172K]

Travel-Guide Map of the Yosemite National Park [240K]

Mt. Lyell and Glacier

The Park-like floor of Hetch-Hetchy Valley

The Mariposa Grove

Hetch-Hetchy Valley

Tueeulala and Wapama Falls, Hetch-Hetchy Valley

View of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley

[Except in a few instances, photographs for the above illustrations were furnished by The Pillsbury Picture Co.]

The Yosemite

By John Muir

New York

The Century Co.

MCMXII

Copyright, 1912, by

The Century Co.

Affectionately dedicated

to my friend,

Robert Underwood Johnson,

faithful

lover and defender

of our glorious forests

and originator of

the Yosemite National Park.

Acknowledgment

On the early history of Yosemite the writer is indebted to Prof. J. D. Whitney for quotations from his volume entitled Yosemite Guide-Book , and to Dr. Bunnell for extracts from his interesting volume entitled Discovery of the Yosemite .

Bibliographic Information

The Yosemite.

Muir, John, 1838-1914.

Originally published: New York: The Century Company, 1912.

Call number: F868 .Y6 979-4'47

Book scanned and converted to HTML by Dan Anderson, 1996. Text corrected by Andrew Sly 2003. Additional links and HTML updated by Harold Wood, 2003. Under current U.S. copyright law, this book is in the public domain.

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