Discovery of the Yosemite, by Lafayette H. Bunnell
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Inventing Yosemite Valley: National Parks and the Language of Preservation
Inventing Yosemite Valley: National Parks and the Language of Preservation Yves Figueiredo ne of the intriguing facts about the giant sequoia has nothing to do with either its size or antiquity, but rather with its name. The species set a record for the number and variety of scientific denominations Oattributed to it by botanists around the world and it took no fewer than thir- teen different designations before Sequoiadendron giganteum was generally ac- cepted. In particular, this debate occasioned a bitter confrontation between British and American botanists. When it became clear that the existence of the tree was not another tall tale from the West, the English adopted in 1853 the term Wellingtonia gigantea to honor the memory of the Duke of Wellington. It would be a mild understatement to say that the Americans did not approve of the choice of an Old World statesman to name a New World wonder and they promptly retorted with Washingtonia gigantea. The current name was fi- nally agreed on when it became apparent that the tree was a cousin of the Coast Redwood Sequoia sempervirens.1 The sheer fact that such a heated debate could have happened over such a seemingly insignificant and rather technical matter shows that the real focus was not so much on the trees themselves as on what they stood for, and on the cultural role that they were to play in the post-Civil War United States. However, even more telling perhaps is the name by which the trees were most commonly designated by the public while the debate was raging in the higher spheres of scientific societies worldwide: sequoias were for every- body the “Big Trees” or “Mammoth Trees.” These names convey images of grandeur, of sheer size, and reveal the perception of the sequoia as above all a monument of nature. -
LITERARY NONFICTION and the NATIONAL PARK MOVEMENT, 1864-PRESENT Lindsay Dunne
Abstract Title of Dissertation: DEFINING PLACES: LITERARY NONFICTION AND THE NATIONAL PARK MOVEMENT, 1864-PRESENT Lindsay Dunne Jacoby, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jeanne Fahnestock and Professor Scott Wible Department of English The canon of American “Nature writing” has long been recognized for its influence on environmental policy, but the role of specific works in shaping environmental discourse and altering material circumstances has yet to be fully understood, especially from a rhetorical perspective. In response, this dissertation explores how works of Nature writing have functioned as persuasive arguments of definition within the National Park movement. It analyzes how literary nonfiction texts promoted a public understanding of specific landscapes and redefined them as worthy of preservation. The idea of rhetorical ecology underlies this analysis: rather than relying on the commonplace idea that a single author writing a single text can influence an environmental policy, the dissertation traces how a work of literary nonfiction operates within a complex system of texts, writers, readers, institutions, objects, and history. The four main case studies demonstrate how new definitions of place have emerged through works of literary nonfiction, each acting in relationship to a larger campaign that led to the preservation of an American landscape as a National Park: Yosemite, Great Smoky Mountains, Everglades, and Voyageurs. In these landmark campaigns, a prominent work of Nature writing, by a prominent author like John Muir, Horace Kephart, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Sigurd Olson, built upon and contributed to a definitional discourse that enabled people to see a specific landscape differently than it had been seen before. -
INDIAN BASKETRY in YOSEMITE VALLEY, 19Th-20Th Century: Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings Mills, Tourists and the National Park Service Catherine K
University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings Textile Society of America 2018 INDIAN BASKETRY IN YOSEMITE VALLEY, 19th-20th Century: Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings Mills, Tourists and the National Park Service Catherine K. Hunter Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf Part of the Art and Materials Conservation Commons, Art Practice Commons, Fashion Design Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons, Fine Arts Commons, and the Museum Studies Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Textile Society of America at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Textile Society of America Symposium Proceedings 2018 Presented at Vancouver, BC, Canada; September 19 – 23, 2018 https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/ Copyright © by the author(s). INDIAN BASKETRY IN YOSEMITE VALLEY, 19th-20th Century: Gertrude “Cosie” Hutchings Mills, Tourists and the National Park Service Catherine K. Hunter Background The theme of the Textile Society of America’s Symposium 2018 “The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global” addresses the impact of immigration and settlers on an already long-inhabited land and how textile traditions were influenced by cultural contact. My topic is American Indian basketry in Yosemite Valley, Central California, and the changes that occurred due to contact with settlers, immigrants and tourists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This story requires an understanding of local, regional and national history. I selected this topic because of the Hutchings Mills Collection at the Robert S. -
Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey Rock Falls in Yosemite Valley, California by Gerald F. Wieczorek1, James B. Sn
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ROCK FALLS IN YOSEMITE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA BY GERALD F. WIECZOREK1, JAMES B. SNYDER2, CHRISTOPHER S. ALGER3, AND KATHLEEN A. ISAACSON4 Open-File Report 92-387 This work was done with the cooperation and assistance of the National Park Service, Yosemite National Park, California. This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U.S. Geological Survey editorial standards (or with the North American Stratigraphic Code). Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government 'USGS, Reston, VA 22092, 2NPS, Yosemite National Park, CA, 95389, 3McLaren/Hart, Alameda, CA 94501, 4Levine Fricke, Inc., Emeryville, CA 94608 Reston, Virginia December 31, 1992 CONTENTS Page Abstract ............................................... 1 Introduction .............................................. 1 Geologic History ........................................... 2 Methods of Investigation ..................................... 5 Inventory of historical slope movements ........................ 5 Location ............................................ 5 Time of occurrence .......:............................ 7 Size ............................................... 8 Triggering mechanisms ................................. 9 Types of slope movement ................................ 11 Debris flows ...................................... 11 Debris slides ...................................... 12 Rock slides ...................................... -
Ethnographic Data and Tribal Engagement at Yosemite National Park
land Article Reframing Native Knowledge, Co-Managing Native Landscapes: Ethnographic Data and Tribal Engagement at Yosemite National Park Rochelle Bloom and Douglas Deur * Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207, USA; [email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 25 August 2020; Accepted: 18 September 2020; Published: 22 September 2020 Abstract: Several Native American communities assert traditional ties to Yosemite Valley, and special connections to the exceptional landmarks and natural resources of Yosemite National Park. However, tribal claims relating to this highly visible park with its many competing constituencies—such as tribal assertions of traditional ties to particular landscapes or requests for access to certain plant gathering areas—often require supporting documentation from the written record. Addressing this need, academic researchers, the National Park Service and park-associated tribes collaborated in a multi-year effort to assemble a comprehensive ethnographic database containing most available written accounts of Native American land and resource use in Yosemite National Park. To date, the database includes over 13,000 searchable and georeferenced entries from historical accounts, archived ethnographic notebooks, tribal oral history transcripts and more. The Yosemite National Park Ethnographic Database represents a progressive tool for identifying culturally significant places and resources in Yosemite—a tool already being used by both cultural and natural resource managers within the National Park Service as well as tribal communities considering opportunities for future collaborative management of their traditional homelands within Yosemite National Park. We conclude that the organization of such data, including inherent ambiguities and contradictions, periodically updated with data provided by contemporary Tribal members, offers a rich, multivocal and dynamic representation of cultural traditions linked to specific park lands and resources. -
AHWAHNEE HOTEL, FOURPLEX COTTAGE Yosemite National Park
AHWAHNEE HOTEL, FOURPLEX COTTAGE HABS CA-2830-C Yosemite National Park HABS CA-2830-C 1 Ahwahnee Drive Yosemite Valley Yosemite Village Mariposa County California PHOTOGRAPHS WRITTEN HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE DATA FIELD RECORDS HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior 1849 C Street NW Washington, DC 20240-0001 HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY AHWAHNEE HOTEL, FOURPLEX COTTAGE HABS No. CA-2830-C Location: 1 Ahwahnee Drive, Yosemite National Park, Mariposa County, California The cottages are located southeast of the Ahwahnee Hotel main building, on the south side of Ahwahnee Drive. USGS Half Dome Quadrangle Universal Transverse Mercator Coordinates: llS 273361mE 4180758mN Present Owner Owner: National Park Service (NPS) and Occupant: Concessionaire: Delaware North Companies, Inc. (DNC) Present Use: Hotel Significance: Situated in a spacious meadow at the foot of the Royal Arches formation at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley is the Ahwahnee Hotel Complex. While the main hotel building is one of the most recognized and iconic grand lodges in the National Park system, the eight cottages that sit in the pine and oak groves immediately southeast of the monumental hotel building are less well known. These cottages, designed by architect Eldridge "Ted" Spencer in 1928, contain twenty-four guest rooms and comprise an integral part of the Ahwahnee Hotel's historical and architectural significance. The inclusion of cottages (commonly referred to at the time as "bungalows") in the Ahwahnee Hotel Complex was an essential component of the plan for the hotel to function as a resort hotel for wealthy visitors to Yosemite National Park. -
The Mystery Buried in Bridalveil Meadow
Spring 1992 A Journal for Volume 54 Members of the Number 2 Yosemite Association A N N U A L R E V I E W 1 9 9 1 The Mystery Buried in Bridalveil Meadow I-lank Johnston Who were Rose and Shurborn, two short articles from a contem- and what were the circumstances porary newspaper: three para- For nearly forty years after of their untimely demise graphs in Lafayette Bunnell 's its dedication in 1921, a blue-and- The accounts that remain are classic book, Discovery of the white metal plaque stood affixed Yosemite; two brief interviews to an upright rock near the south- that contain some peripheral in- eastern corner of Bridalveil formation ; and a bizarre eyewit- Meadow in Yosemite Valley. ness remembrance that came to The plaque, which disappeared light more than 70 years after without notice sometime in the the fact .' late 1950 's, reads: In this article I 'll tell you what Rose and Shurborn we know about the Bridalveil Prospectors Meadow affair. Then I 'll give you Killed by Indians my guess as to what most likely 20th May 1852 took place between the Indians Erected by the and the prospectors back in that Society of California Pioneers ill-fated spring of 1852 (feel free 1921 . to form your own opinion) . PALE TWO YOSEMITE ASSOCIATION . SPRING 092 The Historical Context Commissioners ' encampment on Before the coming of the white the Fresno River. They arrived man, Indians of various tribes empty-handed, however, for had roamed the Sierra Nevada nearly all the Indians captured foothills for untold centuries . -
Self-Guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite National Park (1956) by Richard P
Self-guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite National Park (1956) by Richard P. Ditton and Donald E. McHenry A - Art Online Discussion Home FAQ Muir Weather Maps Lodging About Search Tweet Like 0 Z Prints Library Forum Online Library: Title Author California Geology History Indians Muir Mountaineering Nature Management Yosemite > Library > Auto Tour > CalHotels.US Lowest Hotel Rates Guaranteed. Click Here For Yours! Hotel photos, maps, reviews, & discount rates. U.S. Hotels in California (Yosemite, L. A., San Francisco ), AL, AK, AR, AS, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, FM, GA, GU, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OK, NV, MH, MP, NM, NC, ND, OH, OR, PA, PR, PW, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, VI WA, WV, WI, WY Next: Title page Self-guiding Auto Tour of Yosemite National Park (1956) by Richard P. Ditton and Donald E. McHenry Warning: Road markers have been renumbered since this guide was written in 1956. Also some roads described are now closed to automobiles (including roads in Mariposa Grove and Tuolumne Grove and roads in far eastern Yosemite Valley to Mirror Lake and Happy Isles.) Title page Contents Welcome A Brief Story of Yosemite How To Use This Guide Tours Yosemite Valley from Park Boundary on Merced Road (“V”) Yosemite Valley to Wawona, and South Entrance (“W”) Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias (“B”) Chinquapin to Glacier Point (“G”) Yosemite Valley to Park Boundary at Carl Inn (Crane Flat Road) (“C”) Crane Flat to Tioga Pass (“T”) Interesting Points Between Merced and Yosemite National Park Cover Interesting Points Between Fresno and Yosemite National Park Some Wildlife and Plants of Yosemite National Park Maps Map of Routes Covered by This Self-guiding Auto Tour Map of Yosemite Valley About the Authors Richard P. -
(1955) by Richard J. Hartesveldt Yosemite Valley Place Names
Yosemite Valley Place Names (1955) by Richard J. Hartesveldt [ A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y ] Yosemite Nature Notes THE MONTHLY PUBLICATION OF THE YOSEMITE NATURALIST DEPARTMENT AND THE YOSEMITE NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION, INC. VOL. XXXIV JANUARY, 1955 NO. 1 Yosemite Valley Place Names Cover: El Capitan and Merced River, Yosemite Valley. Courtesy Yosemite Park and Curry Co. By Richard J. Hartesveldt Senior Ranger Naturalist From the earliest days of human languages names have been bestowed upon mountains, lakes, streams and other geographical features that they might be distinguished one from another. The earliest names given were largely descriptive, but as time progressed, people were honored by having their names given to features whose description was not apparent. Although nearly all of the present place names of the Yosemite Valley region have been in use for at least a half a century, some names are falling into disuse while others are favored. The origin of several names is lost in obscurity; others are well preserved in history. The credit for many of these names goes back as far as 1851, the date of the discovery of the Yosemite Valley by the Mariposa Battalion, and especially to Dr. Lafayette H. Bunnell, surgeon for the group, James Hutchings, pioneer hotelman in Yosemite Valley, the Whitney Survey Party, and the members of the U. S. Army Administration are responsible for nearly all of the others. Considerable discrepancy will be noted among the translations of Indian names. [Editor’s note: Bunnell was not the surgeon for the group, never claimed he was, and only earned a sham M.D. -
Yosemite — the Embattled Wilderness
Yosemite — The Embattled Wilderness Yosemite The Embattled Wilderness YOSEMITE The Embattled Wilderness Alfred Runte ©1990, University of Nebraska Press CONTENTS NEXT >>> Yosemite: The Embattled Wilderness ©1990, University of Nebraska Press runte2/index.htm — 17-Mar-2004 http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/runte2/[2/5/2013 4:47:56 PM] Yosemite — The Embattled Wilderness (Table of Contents) Yosemite The Embattled Wilderness Contents Cover List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Incomparable Valley Chapter 2: First Park Chapter 3: Prophecy and Change Chapter 4: National Park Chapter 5: The Commission, the Cavalry, and the Natural Resource Chapter 6: Losing Ground Chapter 7: Changing of the Guard Chapter 8: University of the Wilderness Chapter 9: The Science of Sanctuary Chapter 10: Sanctuary on Trial Chapter 11: The Science of Sanctuary Redefined Chapter 12: Self-Interest and Environment Chapter 13: Management Adrift Epilogue: Reassessment and Future Notes A Note on the Sources Index (omitted from the online edition) Illustrations http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/runte2/contents.htm[2/5/2013 4:48:08 PM] Yosemite — The Embattled Wilderness (Table of Contents) Frontispiece. Vernal Falls. Hikers pause to marvel at the power and majesty of Vernal Falls, June 1938. Photograph by Ralph H. Anderson, courtesy of the National Park Service. I. Incomparable Yosemite. Half Dome; Thomas A. Ayres's Yo-Hamite Falls; Yosemite Falls; Glacier Point; View from Glacier Point; Giant sequoias of the Mariposa Grove; Hikers at Mount Lyell; Frederick Law Olmsted. II. The Art of Promotion. Albert Bierstadt's Lake in Yosemite Valley; Thomas Hill's Yosemite Valley; Cover of Sunset magazine featuring Yosemite; Railroad pro motional brochure covers; Horseshoe Route; Firefall produce label; Yosemite Park and Curry Company promotions.