Yosemite and Sequoia : A Century of California National Parks / edited by Richard J. Orsi, Alfred Runte, and Marlene Smith-Baranzini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Orsi, Richard J., editor.

Runte, Alfred, 1947- editor.

Smith-Baranzini, Marlene, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National parks and reserves--California--History.

National parks and reserves.

Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--History.

Yosemite National Park (Calif.).

Sequoia National Park (Calif.)--History.

Sequoia National Park (Calif.).

Kings Canyon National Park (Calif.)--History.

Kings Canyon National Park (Calif.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1993.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

California National Parks Chronology

Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

Visiting "The Realm of Wonder"

Sublime Vistas and Scenic Backdrops

From Stagecoach to Packard Twin Six

Joseph Grinnell and Yosemite

In Harmony with the Landscape

Conservation Conflict and the Founding of Kings Canyon National Park

Planning Yosemite's Future

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Okt 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520339873

0520339878

OCLC:

1198931424