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