Nature's Mountain Mansion

Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite
Herausgeber: Noy, Gary

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Produktbeschreibung

Nature’s Mountain Mansion focuses exclusively on the critical nineteenth century when Yosemite was “discovered” by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the nation’s most visited national parks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781496232519
• ISBN-10: 1496232518
• Artikelnr.: 63432807

Autorenporträt

Gary Noy has taught history at Sierra Community College in Rocklin, California, for more than three decades. He is the editor of Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-Century American West (Nebraska, 1999) and author of Hellacious California! Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State, among other books.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Soul of the Ah-wah’-nee: The First People
2. “Earth’s Undecaying Monuments”: Geological Formation
3. “The Blood-Swollen God”: The Mariposa Indian War and Mariposa Battalion,
1851–1852
4. “The Lark at Heaven’s Gate Sings”: Initial Encounters, 1850–1859
5. “Sermons in Stone”: John Muir
6. “Enter These Enchanted Woods, You Who Dare”: Reverie and Rusticity,
1860–1869
7. “All Places That the Eye of Heaven Visits”: Improvements and
Irritations, 1870–1889
8. “An Intelligent and Generous Policy towards the Yosemite”: Trepidation
and Transformation, 1890–1899
Epilogue
Source Acknowledgments
Sources