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Nature's mountain mansion : wonder, wrangles, bloodshed, and bellyaching from nineteenth-century Yosemite / edited by Gary Noy.

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Book
Contributor:
Noy, Gary, 1951- editor.
JSTOR (Online Service)
Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--Description and travel.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.).
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--History--19th century--Sources.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Other Title:
Wonder, wrangles, bloodshed, and bellyaching from nineteenth-century Yosemite
Place of Publication:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Contents:
The Soul of the Ah-wah'-nee : The First People
"Earth's undecaying monuments" : Geological Formation
"The blood-swollen god" : The Mariposa Indian War and the Mariposa Battalion, 1851-1852
"The lark at heaven's gate sings" : Initial Encounters, 1850-1859
"Sermons in Stone" : John Muir
"Enter these enchanted woods, you who dare" : Reverie and Rusticity, 1860-1869
"All places that the eye of heaven visits" : Improvements and Irritations, 1870-1889
"An intelligent and generous policy towards the Yosemite" : Trepidation and Transformation, 1890-1899.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.
ISBN:
9781496234186 (electronic bk.)
1496234189 (electronic bk.)
Publisher Number:
99991986149
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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