Spring 1992 A Journal for Volume 54 Members of the Number 2 Yosemite Association

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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) .

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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 . Na- by the Battalion, including Chief ture supplied everything neces- Tenieya and his followers, escaped sary for their culture : game, fish, in the night and scattered back berries, nuts, and acorns, along into the mountains . Thus ended with a pleasant climate . The dis- the first Yosemite campaign. covery of gold on the American On May 5 a new expedition River in January, 1848, however. of 35 men under Captain John soon drastically changed Califor- Boling left for Yosemite Valley nia's rural landscape and ended with instructions to "surprise the the Indians' nomadic way of life Indians and whip them well, or forever. During the next several induce them to surrender" Reach- years, thousands of eager pros- ing the Valley on May 9, Boling pectors swarmed over the Sierra soon captured Tenieya and five foothills in search of golden of his braves . On May 22 the re- riches. Most of the largely Anglo- maining Yosemites were sur- American newcomers regarded prised in a village on the shore Indians as pests to be shoved of present Lake Tenaya . Hungry aside or exterminated. The Indi- and exhausted, the weary band ans, granted no legal rights and of about 35 Indians surrendered suffering from loss of food and without incident. territory, held a similar view of men, most of whom were local This early group of hunters encoun- Tenieya and his people were white men. miners . James Savage, a trading tered only a photographer in Yo- subsequently relegated to the Hostility between the two post operator well-known to the semite Valley. not Ahwahneechee Fresno River reservation in com- Indians. groups reached a climax late in Indians, was elected major in pany with other bands . Unhappy 1850 in the southern mining charge . Before any formal action with the lowland climate and the region of Mariposa County when could be taken, however, three camp and agreed to lead Savage forced cohabitation with tradi- the Indians made a final, desper- United States Commissioners to his rancheria in the Valley. On tional enemies, Tenieya repeat- ate effort to drive out every last arrived and halted proceedings March 27, 1851, Major Savage and edly appealed to the miner from their traditional do- while they tried to persuade the 57 men set out, traveling along an agent-in-charge for permission to main. Working in concert, war Indians to sign treaties and settle Indian trail that later became the go back to his beloved Yosemite. parties from several area tribes on reservations . Most of the stage road between Wawona and Sometime late in 1851, his request attacked the trading posts, seiz- tribes accepted the offer, but Yosemite . On the way they met a was granted upon his promise to ing what they could ; stole horses several of the wilder bands fled straggling group of 72 Indians, remain peaceful . Soon after, some and cattle from the corrals ; and to refuges deep in the Sierra mostly old women, mothers, and of the Chief 's followers quietly Nevada. even murdered a dozen or more children, coming in to surrender. slipped away from the reserva- of the hated intruders before flee- On March 19, 1851, the Mari- Tenieya was sent back to the tion and joined him in their old ing back to the mountains. The posa Battalion set out to bring Battalion camp with this group, mountain home. Sheriff quickly formed a posse to them in. One company was de- while Savage and his soldiers, pursue the marauders, and two tailed to the areas of the Kings suspicious because no young The First Public Notice and Kaweah Rivers . The other men were present . continued small battles were fought with On June 10, 1852, the Alta Cali- two companies, with Savage in northward led by a young Indian indecisive results . Thus began the fornia newspaper in San Francisco charge. forged through deep guide. so-called Mariposa Indian War — printed the following story. really only a series of skirmishes snow over Chowchilla Mountain Late that afternoon, after suc- — during which Yosemite Valley heading for a mysterious valley cessfully negotiating the chal- LIORE INDIAN TROUBLE — was effectively discovered and said to be the home of the Yo- lenging southside cliffs, the party THREE ;lLEN KILLED. first entered. semites, one of the most hostile became the first white men to G. W Steil, who runts an Ex- Fearing a general Indian upris- tribes. enter Yosemite Valley. The fol- press throughout the /nines south of ing, local authorities appealed After establishing a headquar- lowing day the soldiers explored the 1 iariposa, has favored us with to the Governor of the newly ters camp several miles north the Valley end to end, seeing Ver- the foilow'iu in forr/ation : On the formed state for assistance . In of present Wawona . Savage sent nal and Nevada Falls, but finding 2Grit ~1-Jay eight mien started from January, 1851, he authorized the a messenger ahead demanding no Indians except an ancient wo- Coarse Gold Gulch on a prospecting formation of a volunteer militia the surrender of the Yosemites man. The next morning, March tour to the headnraters of the Merced. known as the Mariposa Battalion and their relocation to a reserva- 29, Savage and his men left the After traveling sonic seventy-Pee to subdue the Indians. The Bat- tion on the Fresno River. The Valley and returned to the head- miles, they were suddenly surrounded talion consisted of three compa- Yosemite's chief, called Tenieya, quarters camp near Wawona . The by a large hotly of Kuban, who at- nies totaling 204 officers and soon appeared at the Battalion entire force then set out for the tacked them and killed three of their

LSEMi Pi ASSOCLATIOi\, SPRING 1992 PAGE IHl:EE THE YEOSEMOTYS INHABIT A BEAUTIFUL AND FERTILE VALLEY IN THE UPPER SIERRA NEVADA KNOWN AS YEOSEMOTY VALLEY . THIS VALLEY IS ABOUT SIXTY MILES IN LENGTH, WITH AN AVERAGE OF THREE IN BREADTH, THE SURROUND PEAKS ARE COVERED WITH PERPETUAL SNOW, AND IT IS KNOWN THAT THERE IS GOLD IN THE VICINITY.

number; named Shtrrborn, Rose, and made by some former members tioned at Fort Miller on the San way to escape detection . Some Joseph Tudor The remaining five of the Mariposa Battalion who Joaquin River was dispatched to time later, while the Yosemites made their escape, aud after eudur- were also mining at Coarse Gold Yosemite early in June under the were feasting on the stolen deli- ing great hardships, returned to Gulch at the time. command of Lieutenant Tredwell cacies, the Monos suddenly Coarse Gold Gulch . They had been Equipped with a rough map Moore, USA, to capture or pun- pounced on them, stoning Te- five dab's in the mountains without prepared by the ex-soldiers, the ish the Indians responsible for the nieya and many of his followers provisions. The names of four of them party proceeded northward from killing of the miners. A volunteer to death. Eight young men uvere Grover; Peabody Aitdr, and Coarse Gold, prospecting along scout named Augustus "Gus" escaped by fleeing down the Babcock. At the time of the attack Gray, a friend of the murdered Merced Canyon. The young their arms and anununition Ii'ere men who had been a member of women and children who net, and they were suable to defend both Yosemite campaigns of the survived the attack were made themselves. Only one Indian tt'as Mariposa Battalion, served as captives and taken back to killed On the 2nd last, a party of guide for the punitive expedition. Mono Lake. thirty-five miners started from Coarse Bunnell says he obtained the par- Gold Gulch for the prnyose ofchas- ticulars of the mission directly Grover 's Reminiscence :ising those Indians. from Gray in 1926 the contents of a most A week later, on June 18, a sec- The soldiers entered the Valley remarkable manuscript written ond article, credited to the San at night and surprised and by Stephen Grover a member Joaquin Republican, appeared in captured a party of five Indians. of the unfortunate prospecting the Alta California . According to In the morning, the naked bodies party, came to public attention in this new account, only Rose and of Rose and Shurbon (Bunnell's a California Historical Society (Quar- Shurborn were killed : Joseph Tu- spelling) were found and buried terly article by Carl Russell, Chief dor was seriously wounded. on the edge of the little meadow Naturalist of Yosemite National A party of foal melt mustewd and below Bridalveil Fall . Upon ex- Park. According to Grover. a Started out to chastise the Indians. amination of the five prisoners, group of eight miners consisting Thee found the bodies of the tiro Lafayette H. Bunnell, whose writ- it was discovered that each of of himself, Babcock, Peabody. Tu- 'sundered men and buried them, the ings are the basis for most of what them had some article of clothing dor, Sherburn (Grover's spelling), Indians all the time taunting them is known about early Yosemite belonging to the murdered men. with threats ofdefiance from across history. With this evidence, along with :he river: The river being very high, the captives ' admission that they :he party did not wish to pursue the way in the Merced South had killed the miners to prevent rem farther airy returned. . . . Capt. Fork and streams tributary to it. white men from coming to their Gore's Company of US Infantry While camped somewhere near valley. Lieutenant Moore ordered stationed at Tort :1 li//c,; on the San present Wawona, they were vis- the five Indians executed by a aquin, is not, enroute for the scene ited by a small group of begging volley of musketry' _t the murders- . . . Yosemite Indians, who appeared Moore failed, however, to re- The Yeosenroti's inhabit a beauti- friendly but let the miners know capture Chief Tenieya, who with •ul and fertile railer' in the upper that the territory they were in his few remaining followers made Sierra Nevada knolr'n as Yeosenroty belonged to them. The miners ig- a quick retreat from their Yosem- it/let: This valleir is about sixty nored their claim, knowing that ite hiding places to take refuge rules in length, tritlr an average of the Government had taken over with the Monos across the Sierra. three in breadth, the surround peaks the area the previous year. Bunnell says that he subsequently are covered with perpetual smolt; and "Unsuspicious of danger from learned of Tenieya 's fate from it is known that there is gold in the an attack,i' Bunnell wrote, "they remnants of the tribe with whom es-mite reached the Valley, and while en- he had dealings at his mining op- Stephen Frealon Grover (1830- tering it on the old trail, were eration near the Merced North 1907). Bunnell 's Narrative ambushed by the Indians from Fork in 1853-54. A similar version of the Bridal- behind some rocks at or near the According to these Indians, Fe- Rose, Aich . and an unnamed Eng- veil Meadow attack appeared in foot of the trail, and two of the nieya remained with the Monos lishman, left Coarse Gold Gulch Lafayette Bunnell's book, Discov- party instantly killed . Another until the late summer of 1853 on April 27, 1852, on a prospect- cry ofthe Yosemite and the Indian was seriously wounded . but when he decided it was safe to ing expedition into the Sierra War of 1854 Which Led to That finally succeeded in making his return to Yosemite Valley. Soon Nevada. The party traveled Event.' According to Bunnell, a escape. The names of the two after, some of the young Yo- northward for five days, passing small party of French miners men killed were Rose and Shur- semites raided the Mono Lake through the Mariposa Grove of started out on a prospecting trip bon;' the name of the wounded camp of their former hosts, steal- Big Trees enroute, thus becoming early in May, 1852, with the in- man was Tudor.'' ing a band of horses that the the first white men to enter there. tention of making a visit to Yo- Bunnell then provides us with Monos had taken from white On May 2, the adventurers en- semite Valley Their curiosity a report of the aftermath of the settlers to the south . They drove tered Yosemite Valley and set up about the Valley had been episode. A small company of sol- them to Yosemite Valley over a camp in an open area south of aroused by descriptions of it diers from the Regular Army sta- roundabout route, hoping in this the Merced River. Aich, Grover, PAGE FOUR YOSEMITE ASSOCIATION . SPRING 1992 "WE COULD SEE THE OLD CHIEF TEIEIEYA [SIC]," GROVER WROTE, "WAY UP IN THE VALLEY IN AN OPEN SPACE WITH FULLY ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY INDIANS AROUND HIM, TO WHOM HE GAVE HIS ORDERS WHICH WERE PASSED TO ANOTHER CHIEF JUST BELOW US, AND THESE TWO DIRECTED THOSE AROUND THEM AND SHOUTED ORDERS TO THOSE ON THE TOP OF THE BLUFF WHO WERE ROLLING THE ROCKS OVER ON US.

and the Englishman remained in began to withdraw and we could camp while the others went up hear the twigs crackle as they the Valley prospecting and hunt- crept away." ing for game. Grover then describes at length Suddenly screams and firing how the frightened survivors were heard, and Peabody stag- worked their way hack to civili- gered into camp wounded by ar- zation, all the while fearing rows in his arm and neck . He another deadly attack by the In- was quickly followed by Bab- dians. The party retraced its orig- cock, both men drenched to the inal route, passing once more skin from plunging into the through the Mariposa Grove. stream below Bridalveil Fall while They felt secure only when they fleeing from attacking Indians. "gained the ridge above Chow- Sherburn and Tudor were killed At Coarse Gold Gulch, in the first encounter. Tudor be- Grover's brother, Whitney Gro- ing dispatched with an ax that ver, quickly formed a company of the party had taken along for cut- twenty-five men and started for Charles Leidig at the site of the Maria Lebrado, granddaughter ting wood . Rose fell . "apparently the Valley guided by Aich . The Leidig Hotel, June 6, 1939. of Tenieya. with a death wound; on the op- vengeful miners found the bodies posite side of the stream from the of Sherburn and Tudor but saw dalveil Meadow when the group her about Tenieya's final days. camp. Sherburn's demise is not no Indians . They buried the dead was suddenly set upon by Indi- Her version of the Chief's death described. men where they lay, designating ans about 3 am . The assault took differed sharply from Bunnell's The five survivors, armed with the graves with "such marks as them by surprise, as they had account, related earlier in this two rifles, attempted to escape were at hand at that time." made friendly contact with the article . According to Maria, up the trail by which they had Six days after returning to same Indians during the previous speaking through her daughter's come, but were cut off by a large Coarse Gold Gulch, Grover heard day Two of the prospectors were interpretation, no Indians died in group of Indians, "whooping and that Rose was in the general killed instantly A third was des- Yosemite Valley at the hands of yelling, and constantly firing ar- vicinity reporting that the rest of perately wounded but managed other Indians. Instead, Tenieya rows at us ." The beleaguered the party had been killed by Indi- to flee some distance over the and his family went to Mono miners then managed to scram- ans and that he alone had escaped rocks of the terminal moraine to Lake at the invitation of the Pai- ble up to a " shelf-like projection " by hiding behind Bridalveil Fall. the east before succumbing to his utes who lived there . A violent which was secure from rocks When he learned that Grover and injuries . He was later buried on quarrel developed during a gam- being hurled down by Indians his companions had survived, the top of the moraine facing the bling game. In the deadly skir- from above, but still subject to Rose shortly disappeared. river. mish that followed, five Yosemite a constant shower of arrows "We thought his actions and The site was identified for Indians were killed by Paiutes. from below. words very strange;" Grover said. years by a pile of rocks, The Some Paiutes were also killed. "We could see the old Chief "At the time of the attack he was other two victims were buried in "The Indian, Tom Hutchings, Teieieya [sic];" Grover wrote, the first one to fall, right amongst Bridalveil Meadow, their graves was present during the fight," '`way up in the Valley in an open the savages, apparently with his marked by a crude wooden sign Maria told Russell . "He burned space with fully one hundred and death wound, and now he ap- near the subsequent location of the bodies of the Yosemite Indi- fifty Indians around him, to pears without a scratch, telling the blue-and-white plaque men- ans and brought some of their whom he gave his orders which his version of the affair and dis- tioned earlier in this article . Leidig were passed to another Chief just appearing without seeing any of said he received his information below us, and these two directed us . We all believed he was not first-hand from a member of the those around them and shouted the honest man and friend we party who escaped . The survivor orders to those on the top of the took him to be . He took posses- returned to the Valley some years bluff who were rolling the rocks sion of the gold mine in which he later and pointed out these places over on us. Fully believing our- held a one-third interest with to Leidig. selves doomed men, we never re- Sherburn and Tudor,, and sold it" laxecl our vigilance, but with the Maria Lebrado's Interview two rifles we still kept them at The Leidig Story Maria Lebrado (Indian name, bay, determined to sell our lives Charles Leidig, the first white Totot'a), a granddaughter of Chief as dearly as possible . . . . All of a boy born in Yosemite Valley Tenieya, was a young girl about sudden the Chief just below us, (1869) and a pioneer resident ;' ten or twelve when the Mariposa about fifty yards distant, sud- gave a hearsay account of the Battalion entered Yosemite in denly threw up his hands and murder of the prospectors to a 1851. She left the Valley that same with a terrible yell fell over back- Park Naturalist in 1933. year but remained in Mariposa wards with a bullet through his According to Leidig, a small County for the rest of her life. Indian Tom Hutchings who took body Immediately the firing of party of miners was camped by In 1928. when she was nearly the family name of early hotel- arrows ceased, and the savages . . a large rock on the edge of Bri- ninety, Carl Russell questioned keeper, James Mason Hutchings .

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burned hones back to Yosemite would doubtless have been cor- Valley He told the other Yosem- rectly identified at the time. ite Indians about what had hap- What About Tudor? : The p ened . Tom was half Paiute. first Alta California story says that Tenieya was one of the five Indi- Tudor was one of three miners ans killed. killed by the Indians . The second '`Hite's Cove mine had just article, appearing a week later, re- been opened . My half-sister Lucy ports that only Rose and Shur- ived with Mr. Hite and was horn were dead . Joseph Tudor is always known as Lucy Hite. Tom described as wounded. Bunnell Hutchings took Tenieya 's bones says that Tudor was "seriously to Hite's Cove for burial . On the wounded, but finally succeeded way, Tom stopped with Yosemite in making his escape :' (Grover, as Indians and other Indians who we know, has Tudor, not Rose as were friendly to the Yosemites at one of the murdered men .) There the South Fork, where a big cry is no further mention of Tudor 's was held . This cry lasted two fate in any account, nor does weeks . After the cry the hones Bunnell explain how Tudor could were taken down the South Fork have traversed 75 rugged miles to Hite's Cove. In the month that on foot across the mountains to followed some white prospec- Coarse Gold Gulch in five days tors killed an Indian boy In retali- after being "seriously wounded" ation, some Yosemite Indians Charles Leidig's story offers killed two white men in Yosem- another possibility. Leidig said he ite Valley. They killed them with was told that two men were arrows. Very few Yosemite Indi- from the hinterlands to the city. The two men were buried on the killed by Indians and later buried ans had guns ." The Route Taken : Grover 's edge of the little meadow near the in Bridalveil Meadow . A third description of the route pursued Bridal Veil Fall. Conclusions man (Joseph Tudor=) . although by his party is confusing, to say badly wounded, fled to the rock So far as I know, that's the sum the least. The Mariposa Grove says that the party of men who moraine near Bridalveil Fall be- of information about what went would have been well out of the went back to Yosemite Valley on fore falling dead . It is conceivable on in Yosemite Valley in the sum- way for the group, especially on June 2 buried the two murdered that Tudor's remains, lying in the mer of 1852 . Several of the re- the return trip . Grover may pos- men, Rose and Shurborn. Grover rocks some little distance from ports are clearly in conflict. sibly have mistaken some big supports this account except that Bridalveil Meadow. might have Others, on close analysis . seem trees near Miami Mills for the he maintains it was Tudor and been missed by the burial parties. contrary to fact . The problem is Mariposa Grove . or he may sim- Shurborn who were buried . Bun- Tudor's ultimate destiny thus re- what exactly to make of it all. ply have invented the claim nell. on the other hand, makes no mains an enigma : he may well The Miners' Party : Grover 's many years later to get credit for mention at all of the party of vin- have escaped to live a full life, or -Reminiscence' and the contem- discovering the Grove. dictive miners. Instead, he quotes he may very possibly lie in an porary stories in the Alta Califor- Bunnell says that the miners Gus Gray, an eyewitness who ac- unmarked grave under the rocks nia agree that eight men made were guided by an outline map companied Lieutenant Moore's near Bridalveil Fall. up the group from Coarse Gold prepared by ex-members of the punitive Army expedition into Grover's Romanticized Gulch, namely, Rose. Grover, Mariposa Battalion . No one in the the Valley. Gray told Bunnell that Story: Many elements of Gro- Peabody. Babcock, Tudor, Aitch Battalion knew of the Big Trees. the soldiers found the naked bod- ver's "Reminiscence " do not agree (Grover says ''Aich"). an un- If Aitch led the posse of miners ies of Rose and Shurborn and with known facts . In addition to named Englishman, and Shur- from Coarse Gold Gulch hack to " buried them on the edge of the his dubious claim of discovering born (Grover says " Sherburn;" Yosemite over the trail he had little meadow near the Bridal the Mariposa Grove, Grover pre- Bunnell says "Shurbon"). just traversed as Grover implies, Veil Fall." sents an obviously embroidered The Dates Involved: Those surely news of the Mariposa Which version is correct The description of being attacked by given in the Alta Cali fvrnia ac- Grove would quickly have be- answer will doubtless never be an immense war party. counts are most likely correct come a topic of great interest in known with certainty. It seems Most authorities sayy, however. (Ieft Coarse Gold Gulch on May the nearby mining camps . Bun- reasonably sure, however, that that the Yosemite tribe consisted 20 and returned on June 1 or 2). nell, who knew the area as well the dead men were Rose and of only about 200 members The Indian attack probably took as anyone . states that the exist- Shurborn, not Tudor and Shur- when the white man first arrived place on May 26 or 27- Grover 's ence of the Big Trees was not born. The deceased men were in 1851 . Probably two-thirds of starting date of April 27 is much generally known before Galen well known to members of both these were mothers, children, too early in relation to the first Clark and Milton Mann explored the miners' burial party and Lieu- and old people . By the following newspaper report, published the Grove in 1857. tenant Moore's force . So regard- spring, after two confrontations on June 10. It took about a Who Buried the Bodies?: less of who buried them, the with the Mariposa Battalion, the week for news to be carried The second Alta Calif runt story corpses of Rose and Shurborn Yosemites had become widely

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scattered — some families re- a letter to the .lIanpoca Chronicle some- turning to their original tribes, time in 1854 in which he described others still on the reservation or the expedition and attempted to jus- hidden in the foothills . At the tify his actions. Unfortunately, no time the miners were attacked, copy of that rare issue seems to exist. 5. Tenieya 's local following most Stephen Frealon Grover (1830- 1907) came to California during the likely numbered fewer than three gold rush from his native Maine dozen Indians in all, with some where he had been engaged in the of these being women, children, lumber business . He subsequently and elders. joined with his brother Whitney in a It therefore seems probable lumbering operation in the Santa that a small group of renegade Cruz mountains near Soquel . He Yosemites carried out the ambush achieved considerable financial suc- of the miners to steal their pos- cess, eventually building a fine house called the Grover Mansion on Walnut sessions. The fact that Lieutenant Street in Santa Cruz. He also had a Moore found five Indians still street named after him in the same present in Bridalveil Meadow a city. Sometime in his later years. month later strongly suggests Grover wrote out his "Reminiscence ;' that these were the only ones in- fraught with questionable infor- Late spring at Lake Tenaya . 1991, which he left with his daughter. Mrs. volved . It is entirely possible that mation that it is hard to accept named after the last of the Ahwa- A. E. Chandler, likewise a Santa Cruz Tenieya didn 't even know about any part of it as absolute .' Both neechee chiefs, Tenieya. resident. She sent the manuscript to the murders at the time. Galen Clark in Yosemite in 1901 . On the newspaper stories and Grover Clark's death it passed to the Yosem- Grover's implication that Rose said that one Indian was killed Indians. Two of them named "Sher- ite photographer George Fiske . On set up the whole affair to do during the assault on the miners. man and Tudor" were killed, but the Fiske 's death the paper was acquired away with his mining partners, Maria's "Indian boy" might have others reached safety after a lengthy by the National Park Service for safe- Shurborn and Tudor, is an been an unlucky young man who fight with their attackers . James keeping . In 1926 Carl Russell wrote intriguing but entirely implausi- was shot during the ambush. Hutchings, pioneer Yosemite inn- an article. "Early Years in Yosemite ;' ble proposition. To accept it . one Surely the prospectors, who keeper and publicist, reiterates Elli- for the California Historical Society, must assume that Rose somehow were admittedly apprehensive ott's second version with minor in which he presented Grover's ac- changes in his 1886 book, In the Heart count of the Indians secretly negotiated a 150-mile about the Indians, would not ' attack on the of the Sierras. He credits Elliott for the miners. He later printed the manu- round trip through strange and have risked inciting them by gra- material. script in his book, One Hundred hostile country from Coarse tuitously murdering a child. 2. Bunnell's hook is our principal Years in Yosemite„ first published in Gold Gulch to Yosemite Valley, Where's the Plaque? source of knowledge about early April, 1932. then struck a deal with Chief Te- events in Yosemite history. Bunnell 6.Charles Leidig lived in Yosemite nieya to kill Tudor and Shurborn There is one last unexplained was an observant young private with from his birth on March 8, 1869, until at a later date . Tenieya had event in the matter of the Indians the Mariposa Battalion during the In- 1916, when he moved to Hayward in already suffered two painful ex- and the prospectors that might dian campaign of 1851 . Afterward he the Bay Area . He spent some years as periences at the hands of the yet be resolved: Who removed remained active in the Yosemite- a guide and scout for the U .S .Cavalry Mariposa region with various mining, and also served as a Special Forest white man 's soldiers . He would the blue-and-white metal plaque from its appointed rock in trading, and surveying projects until Agent while the troops were absent hardly have conspired with Rose he returned home to Wisconsin in the in the winter. He was one of two in anything that was sure to pro- Bridalveil Meadow in the late fall of 1856 . In 1880, "to correct exist- guides assigned to Teddy Roosevelt voke a third. Moreover, no ac- 1950's, and where is it now. If ing errors relative to Yosemite Valley" and John Muir during their historic count save Grover 's mentioned anyone reading this can provide Bunnell brought out the first of four camping trip in May. 1903. Leidig left Rose's miraculous survival, an that answer, I 'd very much like editions of his magunn opus, Discovers' Government service in 1907 and be- event that would have indeed to hear about it. of the Yosernite, the last published post- came a teamster for the Yosemite been news at the time. humously in 1911 . For further infor- Stage & Turnpike Company From So why did Grover, writing mation about Bunnell, see Hank 1916 until retirement he was em- Notes and References Johnston, Yosemite' 1csterdars, Volume ployed by the Hayward City Park some 50 years after the incident, I. Three other reports that add 11, Flying Spur Press, 1991. Department. He died in 1956 at the concoct such a quixotic descrip- nothing to our knowledge of what 3.In the Yosemite Association age of 88. tion of the Indian attack' Was it a went on also exist. Elliott 's History of edition of Bunnell's Discover' of the Yo- 7 The missing plaque gave May 20 matter of self-aggrandizement for Fresno County (1881) inexplicably con- semite, his original spelling of "Shur- as the date of the murders. That was a man late in life, or was he slyly tains two different versions of the in- bon" has been changed to "Shurborn .' actually the date the party left Coarse twitting historians yet to come? cident in the same volume . The first The author's earlier editions all used Gold Gulch, according to contempo- Which leaves us with Maria says that a band of Indians attacked "Shurbon ;" which very well may be rary news stories . Grover said it took Lebrado and her story of the three unnamed Frenchmen near Yo- correct. about seven days for the prospectors murder of the Indian boy, which, semite Valley in August, 1852. killing 4.According to Bunnell, Lieutenant to reach Yosemite Valley and approx- Tredwell Moore, an 1847 graduate of imately five or six days for the return she claimed, provoked a retalia- two. The third escaped . Some pages later, a second account, apparently West Point, received some severe crit- trip to Coarse Gold Gulch . The tory attack on the miners . Maria 's derived partly from Stephen Grover icism for his "display of autocratic attack therefore must have occurred full interview, given to Carl Rus- (see footnote 5), says there were five power in ordering the five Yosemites on May 26 or 27 sell more than 75 years later, is so gold hunters who were set upon by shot:" Bunnell said that Moore wrote Continued on page 16 1991 was significant for starting Yosemite's second century as a national park . And while it sponsored no gala events to mark this milestone, the Yosemite Association quietly continued its tradition of over seventy years of service to Yosemite, the National Park Service and the visitor. The following report demonstrates the health and viability of our varied activities, and gives testament to the strength of our educational program. Thousands ofpersons were in one way or another affected by our work, thousands ofhours ofvolunteer labor were contributed at the park, and thousands ofdollars were donated to the National Park Service in support ofits interpretive efforts. This success is the result ofa committed and hard-working staff and board, ofa steadfast and gener- ous membership, ofa cooperative National Park Service staff and of scores ofindividuals and busi- nesses who have contributed in impressive ways. The Yosemite Association is built upon this foundation ofsupport which could not be stronger. Once again we extend our thanks to our friends, members, and supporters who have given our orga- nization such vigor and who have made working to benefit Yosemite so enjoyable .

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YA '91 March July October A 40-ton boulder closed the A congressional oversight hear- The Centennial time capsule Park Highlights Big Oak Flat Road from Crane ing on park transportation and was buried on the Yosemite Vil- Flat to the road 's intersection housing was held at the Marriott lage pedestrian mall, marking an January with Highway 140. Hotel in Fish Camp. end to the previous year 's Seven members of an environ- Centennial Celebration. The Yosemite Park & Curry April mental activist group known as Co., Yosemite 's main concession Ticketron ceased operation "Sierra Green" attempted to November operation, was sold by Matsu- and was later replaced by Mistix block construction of new park Tioga Road was closed for the shita Corporation of Japan to the as the company handling camp- housing being built at Hodgdon season on the 18th. National Park Foundation . The ground reservations in Yosemite Meadow. Campgrounds, tents and other sale will take effect in 1993. National Park. housing units were evacuated for August 15 hours when Yosemite Valley February May Secretary of the Interior Man- experienced 40 mile per hour Chief Ranger Roger Rudolph The Tioga Road first opened uel Lujan visited Yosemite. winds. was transferred to Olympic on May 23, closed again due to Attorney Melvin Belli initiated National Park as Assistant Super- road surface problems, then 21 tort claims against the NPS intendent, and Chief of Conces- reopened on May 26. arising from the Foresta fire sions, Wayne Schulz, retired from On May 26 (Memorial Day of 1990. the NPS. weekend) the Traffic Manage- Between February 28 and ment Plan (turning away cars September March 5 a major storm dropped without lodging or camping Mark Wellman and Mike Cor- almost 8 inches of rain on Yosem- reservations from Yosemite bett climbed Half Dome to bene- ite, bringing much-needed relief Valley) was implemented for fit the Boy Scouts. from the drought . two hours . The new Hetch Hetchy Camp- ground was dedicated.

I Ii SOC i i ;N . SPR :N( _ib2 NU;1I . REVIEW. PACE'. N[NE

Mr. Robertson will begin his YA '91 YA '91 has long been needed and should second term as a trustee . He has prove very useful to visitors to Board of Trustees participated in a number of YA Sales and the south end of the park. projects and activities, notably With our high level of sales, The board of YA experienced serving as Chair of the Grants Publications we kept a very busy reprint one change in 1991 when long- and Aid Committee and as a schedule . Eighteen different titles time board member Carlo Fowler member of the Publications Com- YA's success with its publica- were reprinted, pointing out the was unseated in the annual elec- mittee . He was also elected Vice- tions program continued through long-term popularity and staying tion by Kathleen Orr. The other Chair of the full board . Robertson 1991 . Our gross sales grew to power of the books we publish. incumbent, David Robertson, is the author of two Association over $1,568,000 — the highest The A lap and Guide to .Ssetrrite was re-elected. publications: West of Eden and figure ever. Keys to this growth Valley just went to a third printing Kathleen Orr has long been Yosemite As 1P1' Saar It. He has a were new wholesale markets and — over 45,000 copies have now involved in Yosemite, most re- strong interest in and concern better distribution of YA publica- been sold. cently as a YA volunteer in both about Yosemite's future. tions outside the park. At the park, our sales outlets the membership booth and the Carlo Fowler performed ably It was a banner year for new continued strong. Notable museum. She has visited the park as a board member for eleven products . Included among them increases were made at Happy every year since 1934, and con- years. He was closely involved in were the reprint of Lafayette Isles Nature Center (up 82%), siders Yosemite a very special the rapid growth of the Associa- Bunnell's Discovery of the Yosemite, and at the Museum Shop (up place . She is a retired elementary tion, and participated in the de- The Complete Guidebook to Yosemite 142%). We also opened a cooper- school teacher, a former book- velopment of the fundraising National Park by Y.A.'s own Ste- ative visitor information center store owner, and the mother of program which later became the ven P. Medley, the long-awaited and sales outlet at Briceburg (on four grown children . Yosemite Fund. His contributions Tradition & Innovation – A History Highway 140 just outside the to our organization and Yosemite of' the Indians of the Yosemite-il lono park) in conjunction with the have been substantial and are Lake Area, a pair of plastic Sierra Bureau of Land Management. deeply appreciated . Nevada Field Cards illustrating the Sales at the Valley Visitor Center most common birds and mam- exceeded $800,000 for the first mals of the area, The AIap and time. Wholesale orders grew Guide to kd%airona and the .1lar-rposa 25% to almost $350,000 (also Grove produced in conjunction an all-time high). with Rufus Graphics of San Fran- Our book rack program has cisco, and a set of full color note prospered . We now maintain al- cards featuring images of Indian most 50 racks of YA publications baskets from the Yosemite Mu- in various stores, restaurants, seum collection. motels and other establishments The guidebook proved its pop- on the different entry routes to ularity almost immediately with the park. sales of over 10,000 copies within YA personnel also represented the first seven months of its the organization at trade exhibits release. It continues to sell well. throughout the year including the Reviews of Tradition cC Innovation Northern California Bookseller 's have been excellent, and nearly Association Convention in Oak- three-quarters of the first run of land and the San Francisco Bay 2,000 books are gone . A reprint is Area Book Festival . contemplated . And the new map and guide to the Wawona area YOSF,MITE ASSOCIATION . sFI m C ; 1992

YA '91 There were three very suc- YA '91 The on-going drought contin- cessful member events in 1991. ued to affect the Sierra, so YA Membership Close to 500 people attended the Seminars courses were planned for areas Spring Forum held in the Valley near lakes and rivers . Autumn 1991 was a busy, productive on March 23rd and listened to 983 people enrolled in YA field Rambles in the nigh Couutn year for the Yosemite Associa- talks on the infamous A-Rock seminars during 1991 . With the scheduled for October,, ran right tion's membership program. and Steamboat fires of 1990, the assistance of qualified instructors, into the fall season's first big Membership totals hit the 6,000 possibilities of a park-wide light they investigated a range of di- snowfall . Unfortunately, the mark with over 700 new mem- rail system, and the distressing verse topics within the natural, course had to be cancelled be- bers joining as a result of the sum- decline in Yosemite's songbirds, outdoor classroom we know as cause no one could drive to the mer volunteer booths located among many other topics . In Sep- Yosemite. Subjects offered in- scheduled meeting place on the both in Yosemite Valley and Tu- tember in Tuolumne Meadows, cluded botany. bit-cling, geology, east side of the Sierra! Changes olumne Meadows . These booths approximately 350 members human history astronomy, were made to the Literary Natural- give out an abundance of general turned out for a beautiful fall nature photography and art . Par- ist Workshop (different location park information to visitors, in weekend in the high country and ticipants strolled, hiked, and class content), and it proved addition to membership materi- the Sixteenth Annual Members ' backpacked, skied and to be a great success . Backpack als. In the Valley. these folks also Meeting. Wilderness traveler and snowshoed throughout the park trips filled to capacity, and begin- staff the park's Museum Gallery, writer, Peter Browning (Yosemite to appropriate study areas . The ner birding students flocked to enabling it to he open to the pub- Place Aanres, John A Inn. hi His four seasons allowed class atten- courses! lic — over 120,000 people viewed Oue'u Words) addressed the group dees to enjoy such natural The country's recession af- the exhibit there last year. In Tu- and signed books. phenomena as snow crystals, fected seminar attendance, but olumne, the volunteers also host Finally, in October, about 200 lush spring flowers, starry night overall, the program was healthy. the seminar campground. Last YA members, staff and board skies, and the rich color of fall Both returning and new students year,, thirty faithful Y.A. members gathered at the Filoli estate in vegetation. took part in classes — from volunteered approximately 3,700 Woodside for the first Northern Several new courses were of- learning how to make Miwok hours of work as part of this California members event . They fered in 1991— the 13-day Plant soaproot brushes to keying out program. enjoyed tours of the beautifully Diversity Study Backpack taught some of the composite flowers landscaped gardens, a picnic The YA summer Work Trips by Steve Botti, The Life of the found in the park. The goals of are another popular way that lunch, and a talk by Martin Tuolumne River taught by Aldaron the seminar program (to provide members provide much needed Rosen of the Trust for Public Laird, William Trush and Eric Lar- high quality, in-depth interpreta- labor for Yosemite . Underwritten Land . This event came at the re- son, and Trees of Yosemite taught tion and to serve as an extension by the Yosemite Park & Curry quest of the YA Board for meet- by Jim Paruk . of the park 's education program) Co. and conducted in coopera- ings to be held each year outside were met in 1991, and in meeting tion with the Yosemite Institute of the park . A southern Califor- those goals, YA benefitted the and the National Park Service. nia Y.A. member gathering is in public and the park. three week-long trips took place the planning stage for fall of 1992 . in 1991 . Forty-five members gen- erously gave about 1 .400 hours of their hard work as crews for nu- merous revegetation projects in both the Valley and Tuolumne Meadows .

YOSEMITE ASSOCIATION, SPRING 1992 Ng. ANNLAI REVIEW. PACE ELEVEN

YA '91 mension to her music with Annie YA '91 YA '91 Boucher and Kristin Ramsey in Home Planet Hootenamn: Lee Stet- Other Programs son captured the park 's special Contributions to Research Grant Art Activity Center. Free, infor- significance through the persona the NPS and BLM Program mal, outdoor classes in painting, of John Muir in his two shows, photography and sketching were Conversations With a Tramp and With its net revenues, YA ben- Expenditures for grants to in- offered daily most of the year un- The Spirit ofJohn Aluit: The efits a wide variety of endeavors, dependent researchers were der the joint sponsorship of the theater also had veteran Bob but primarily donates funds to made in the amount of $32,833 National Park Service, Yosemite Roney narrating his two shows, the National Park Service for its during 1991 . A variety of projects Park and Curry Co ., and the Yo- Black Bears, Big Horn Sheep and educational, research and envi- were undertaken with the money semite Association at the Art Ac- Peregrine Falcons and Yosemite and ronmental programs . With the including age-dating of a Sierra tivity Center in Yosemite Valley. the High Sierra. opening of the new Briceburg In- Nevada meadow, the Yosemite These classes started in 1980 and Film Assistance Program. formation Center outside the Photographic Survey an effort have drawn artists from all over Yosemite Association assisted park, YA also made contributions to control exotic hull thistle in the U.S. Participants have come with a variety of film projects in 1991 to its partner in that ven- Yosemite Valley,, a study of In- from every corner of the world. in 1991 including a Japanese chil- ture — the Bureau of Land Man- dian burning practices, and a High Sierra Loop Trips . This dren's television program, a mu- agement. population status survey of the year the loop trips not only pro- sic video, and documentary and During the year direct aid to Yosemite Toad. It was the fourth vided added services to the park commercial work . Filmmakers the National Park Service totalled successful year for the Research visitor, but were used for training pay fees to YA for location scout- $266 .151, and an additional Grant Program which is ongoing. new interpreters in the Mather ing and photography in advance $32.833 was made available to District . Giving the participants of actual filming, for models, for independent scientists and re- an in-depth "educational " experi- on-site project assistants, and searchers. The Park Service dona- ence in the backcountry has, it is for other related services . One tions grew by 8°0 over 1990 to hoped, increased awareness of donation of $500 was received in their highest level ever. Direct aid park values . Trips this year were addition to the fees paid for assis- to the Bureau of Land Manage- coordinated by Ginger Burley tance rendered. ment was $6,771. (NPS), and Claire Haley (YA). Special Trips . The number of Contributions by category : Yosemite Theater Program. requests for special trips contin- $52,794 Every year the theater program Interpretive Programs Direct Aid to NPS from Y4 ues to grow. Most are for a single 1986—1991 changes to include new and inno- guided hike or presentation for a Museum 36,545 vative shows . This year Connie small private group . At least two Free Publications 12,806 $275,000 Stetson joined the troupe with groups used several leaders for Interns 43,665 250,000 her stage show, Sarah Haivikins all-day programs ; Y.A. also pro- Research Library 4,618 Contemplates a Fourth Alarriage: vided a guide for a bus tour of Audio-Visual Equipment 1,008 200,000 The Dian of a Pioneer Wonsan. Yosemite Valley for French- Research & Archeology 6.569 Also, Jo Diotelevi came from speaking visitors . Some school 175,000 Hawaii with her magical puppets groups have begun to call on us Resource Projects 220 to spread the recycling message. for children's walks . YA is paid a Information Assistance 35,290 150,000 Tom Bopp sang and played Vin- fee for providing the various nat- Administration Support 30,433 tage Songs of Yosemite from the ural history instructors ; in addi- 125,000 Miscellaneous 2,203 yesteryears of Camp Curry. Gail tion, some groups have made 100 .000 Lynne Dreifus added a new di- donations . Total for 1991 $266,151 '86 '87 '88 '89 '90 '91 '92

PAGE TWELVE. FM ANNUAL REVIEW YOSEMITE ASSOCIATION . SPRING 1 993 Statement of Activity 1991

Support and Revenues Operating Fund Restricted Funds Plant Fund Total Publication Sales $1,568.131 $1,568,131 Seminars 102,193 102,193 Membership 189,878 189,878 Gifts 126,952 126,952 Investment Income 18,246 18,246 Theater 98,851 98,851 Auxiliary Activities 136,200 63,482 199,682 Film Program 3,570 3,570

Total Revenues $2,117,069 $190,434 $2,307,503

Expenses Support Services: Management & General 277,213 10,699 287912 Membership 108,653 1,130 109,783

Cost Ot Sales c.t? Auxiliary Activities : Publication Costs 1,116,997 11,208 1,128,205 Seminars 83,930 441 84,371 Theater 80,427 122 80,549 Auxiliary Activites 108,869 315 109,184 Film Program 1,938 1,938

Total Expenses $1,778,027 $23,915 $1,801,942

Excess of Revenues $ 339,042 $190,434 ($23,915) $ 505,561 Over Expenses

.t O l / Donations to NP.S: $266,151

Miscellaneous Administrative Support

Information Assistance

Resource Projects Research & Archeology Audio Visual Equipment Research Library

Interns

iSV 1TTE ASSOC :ATtON . SPRING 1992 :ANNUAL REVIEW 'AGE THIRTEEN Balance Sheet, 1991

For year ending December 31, 1991

Operatirz huh/ Restricted Funds Plant Fund Total Cash $200,818 $106,684 $307,502 Accounts Receivable 46,348 46,348 Prepaid Expense 7110 7110 Inventories at Cost 576,088 5,605 581,693 Equipment 169,562 169,562 Accumulated Depreciation ( 77467) ( 77,467)

Total Assets $830,364 $112,289 $ 92,095 $1,034.748

Liabilities Accounts Payable $66.908 $66,908 Loan Payable 2,000 2,000 Accrued Taxes 5,732 5,732 Vacation Payable 20,182 20,182 Deferred Restricted Gifts 112,289 112,289 Royalty Payable 8,226 8,226

Total Liabilities $103,048 $112,289 $215,337

Fund Balances Invested in Equipment $92,095 $92,095 Unappropriated $727,316 727316

Total Fund Balances $727,316 $92,095 $819,411

Total Liabilities and $830,364 $112,289 $92,095 $1,034,748 Fund Balances

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PAGE FOURTEEN YOSEMITE ASSOCIATION . SPRING 1992 Concession Plan Update

The Concessions Services Plan Service by June 8th . The bids fire crew spotted a mother lion (CSP) for Yosemite is moving to- will essentially set forth the qual- Sightings of and two cubs on the Glacier Point ward a final version following a ifications of each bidder to oper- Road. Another sighting of a lone series of public hearings on the ate a concession of this size, Mountain Lions adult was made in the same area plan's first draft and the submis- detailing the experience of a last year. sion of some 4,000 letters com- management team, etc . Within Increasing In another incident, a lion menting on its substance. two to three weeks after that, Gene Rose strolled through the busy Wa- Hearings were held in Fresno, San the NPS will select those firms it wona campground last summer, Francisco, and Yosemite Valley at has determined to be eligible for Sightings of mountain lions apparently unconcerned about the end of January . Comments on "Phase Two" when the actual are becoming more frequent in the visitors who trailed behind, the draft plan were accepted details and monetary figures of Yosemite National Park. the Na- taking pictures . Also last year, a through February 28. the hid will be covered. tional Park Service said, confirm- mountain lion killed a coyote There was far from universal While the bidding process gets ing that three adult lions were near the south entrance station acceptance of the plan's proposals underway, there continue to be seen at the end of March near the while two foreign visitors at the three hearings . Contro- questions asked about the eco- Big Oak Flat entrance station. watched, Hattaway said. versy surrounded the plan's call nomic feasibility of the conces- In addition to those sightings, Bob Brueggeman, wildlife biol- to remove the Yosemite Valley ice sion operation in light of the two more lions were seen earlier ogist with the California Depart- rink, to increase park restaurant major debt that will be assumed in the month in the Wawona sec- ment of Fish and Game, said that services, and to build year-round by the next concessioner and of tion of the park . On March 2, a since 1986 there have been four motel units to replace tent cabins. the expectations of the NPS for park ranger saw an adult moun- mountain lion attacks on humans Other criticisms of the plan were sizable contributions by the con- tain lion watching a resident who in the state, with one fatality. that it failed to include related cessioner to capital improvement was barbecuing steaks, unaware The movement of people into transportation and housing stud- accounts to help implement the of the lion's presence. the foothills and other rmountain ies, and that it did not address the General Management Plan. Steve Thompson, a Yosemite lion habitat also has increased the issue of limiting visitation. With the release of the final wildlife biologist, said the park number of attacks on household There have also been sub- Concession Services Plan and a service is getting more reports pets and farm animals. sequent allegations that the CSP narrowing of the pool of poten- of mountain lion activity within Mountain lions are tawny- violates federal guidelines under tial concession bidders, many the park. colored cats that can grow up the National Environmental Pol- of these uncertainties will be re- While no one has been attacked to 5 feet long with a 30-inch tail icy Act for environmental review. solved . One thing is certain at or stalked, he said the mountain and weigh up to 165 pounds. These charges, leveled by the this time, however. Decisions lion population appears to be Much of the increase in the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, reached through this process increasing. mountain lion population is at- have been denied by National will have critical, long-lasting im- "We are evaluating the situa- tributed to bans and moratoriums Park Service officials . `It is our pact on Yosemite National Park. tion; we are discussing mountain on hunting in many western opinion that the plan complies Both the level of concession oper- lions attacking people . states. In 1990 California voters with NEPA, . . but " said Acting Park Su- ation and the entity selected to what we need to remember is approved Proposition 117 which perintendent Kevin Cann. run it will influence greatly the that the mountain lion is not the bans mountain lion hunting. National Park Service person- park experience that visitors villian ;' he said. nel working on the plan have will have and the health of the Wawona Ranger Pat Hattaway Gene Rose has lout; reported on been analyzing both written very resources which attract said there have been several other Yosemite for the Fresno Bee . This comments and those from the those visitors. lion incidents over the past two article originally appeared in that public hearings and making years in the southern seciton of paper and is r'epr'inted with per- changes to the CSP accordingly. Yosemite. mission of-the author At the end of March, Western During the 1990 A-rock fire, a Region Concessions Specialist Steve Crabtree reported that he was headed for Washington, D .C. with several pages of proposed amendments to the plan for the consideration of the NPS Direc- tor. A revised, "final" draft of the Concession Services Plan is expected sometime in June. In the meantime, approxi- mately 80 firms have written to the NPS expressing their interest in the next concessions contract at Yosemite. Those companies have been asked to submit "Phase One" bids to the Park ':'OSEMiTE ASSOCIATION . SPRJNG 1992 PAGE FIFTEEN YA Honored with 9 Publishing Awards

At the recent National Park Service Cooperating Association Publications Competition ban- Take a Yosemite quet in San Antonio . the Yosem- Seminar! ite Association was the big winner with a total of nine Do you still have the seminar awards including the highest catalog mailed in December' Re- member, it's the only one you 'll get this year. Give us a call and let us sign you up for one of these: Geology of Yosemite Valley, July 1--12 ; The Life of the Tuol- umne Rivet; August 21–23; Mountain Wildflowers for the Relaxed Botanist, July 13–17; Starry Skies Over Yosemite, July 19–23 ; Return of the Bighorn Sheep, August 7–9 ; Teaching About California Indians, July 16–19 ; Miwok Indians as Ancient Cultivators, August 16–18. honor, the Director's Award, for Backpack trips still open: The Complete C1/0e/took to Yosemite Beginning Backpack for Women, .\rational Park . Recognized with July 3–5 : Yosemite Creek Back- First Place prizes were Tradition tC' pack, June 19–21 ; Yosemite Valley Innovation – A Basket history of the North Rim Backpack . June 11–15 ;. Indians of the Yosemite-el lo/to Lake The Tuolumne Meadows Family Area (Scholarly Book category), Camp is scheduled for August The illap LC' Guide to Yosemite Val- 14–16, and includes meals and ley (joint Venture category), and campsite. The Complete Guidebook (General Photography and art Park Guide category). courses: Photographing Tuol- Winning Honorable Mention umne Wildflowers, July 25–26; Awards were Yosemite : A Journal Finding & Photographing Wild- tor Members of the Yosemite Associa- Lion for the Director's Award. and printed by Overseas Printing life. June 6–8 ; Yosemite By tion, A Catalog; of Publications from The judges believed that The of San Francisco. Watercolor, July 16–20 ; Literary the Yosemite Association, Sierra Complete Guidebook to Yosemite Judges for the competition in- Naturalist Workshop, August Nevada Field Cards, the Yosemite National Park demonstrated over- cluded Howard Paine, former Art 3–6. Held Seminars Catalog, and Yosem- all excellence in writing, design Director, National Geographic If you don't have your catalog, ite: A Landscape of Life. Of the ten and production . The book was Magazine, Frances Smyth, Editor- give us a call at 209/379-2321, entries submitted by YA, eight written by Y.A. President Steve in-Chief. National Gallery of Art, and we'll mail you another. received prizes. Medley. designed by Jon Good- John Michael, printer and typog- After the judges decided on child of the San Rafael Design rapher, Acorn Press . Dr. David winners in 16 different categories Group, edited by Mary Vocelka, Sparks, University of Maryland, from among 150 entries, they John Burwell, professional pho- Yosemite Needs chose one outstanding publica- tographer, and Bill Perry, freelance Our Help! Association Dates writer/naturalist. YA Member Work Trips will Correction July 5-11, 1992 : Member Work provide much-needed crews this Trip, Yosemite Valley 209-379-2317 summer for NPS revegetation A photograph which accompa- July 19-25, 1992 : Member Work projects in the park . Work trip nied the article about gifts to the Trip, Yosemite Valley If you're planning a trip to Yo- participants camp together in Yosemite Museum in the summer August 2-8, 1992 : Member semite and have questions, give special sites, have their meals issue of Yosemite was improperly Work Trip, Yosemite Valley our Members ' phone line a call provided, and have good times credited. The photograph of August 23-29, 1992: Member between the hours of 9 :00 am while restoring Yosemite 's na- Donald Stillman donating his fa- Work Trip . Tuolumne Meadows and 4:30 pm Monday through tural beauty. There are some ther's baskets was taken by Vir- September 12, 1992 : Annual Friday. We don't make reser- openings in the Valley trips: ginia Adams Stillman . We regret Meeting, Wawona vations. but we can give the ap- July 5-11 and August 2-8 . Call the error and any confusion it March 27, 1993 : Spring Forum, propriate phone numbers and Holly for more information. may have caused . Yosemite Valley usually lots of helpful advice. 209-379-2317

PAGE SIXTEEN YOSEMITE PiSSOCIATION . SPRING 1992 New Backcountry Group Limits

In an effort to improve the majority of those using these his daily mail run from Wawona wilderness experience in areas of wilderness areas. The First Yosemite to Yosemite Valley, Gordon's time the Central and Southern Sierra As of January 1, 1992, the For- belongs to anyone who needs his Nevada Mountain Range in Cali- ests and Parks have designated a Fund Award help and knowledge of the park. fornia, the U .S. Forest Service maximum group size of 15 peo- The Yosemite Fund Council and the National Park Service an- ple, limited the use of campsites Albert Gordon was recognized of Directors presents the first Yo- nounced new group and stock to a maximum of 15 people, and as the first recipient of The semite Fund Award to Albert limits for wilderness areas in the designated a maximum number Yosemite Fund Award in a cere- Gordon for his generosity of Inyo, Sequoia . Sierra, Toiyabe, of pack and saddle stock of 25 mony on Saturdayy. March 7 for spirit and abiding love for his and Stanislaus National Forests, head per party. Areas without his unequaled generosity in shar- community and Yosemite . They and Sequoia/Icings Canyon and trails in Yosemite and the Saw- ing his knowledge of Yosemite recognize Al Gordon as an un- Yosemite National Parks . The tooth Ridge Area will not be af- history with others and for his sung keeper of Yosemite's cul- new limits culminate a two year fected by this change. efforts to preserve the historical tural heritage. study of appropriate party size The 1992 season will be a record of Wawona. and stock use within the 16 "phase-in" period, allowing users Gordon has worked with wilderness areas administered the opportunity to adjust plans, the historical society to free Wa- The Mystery by these agencies. wona's pioneer cemetery of ob- procedures, or client bookings to Continuer/ Pont page h Effective January 1, 1992, a meet the new size limitations. trusive concrete slabs, and he standardized maximum group New maximum party size limits fought successfully to keep the 8. Maria Lebrado was one of the 72 size of 15 people/25 head of will be waived up to pre-existing historic rail fence and apple trees Indians captured along the trail by the stock was instituted in these Ievels If required however, it is Mariposa Battalion on March 27, 1851. wilderness areas . This has been hoped that groups will attempt during the volunteers' first invasion of done to improve social condi- to comply with the new party Yosemite Valley. She later married a fellow Yosemite Indian by whom she tions, provide consistency in ad- size this year. In 1993, exceptions had a daughter and four sons. After ministration of wilderness areas to the 15 people/25 stock limit her husband's early death, Maria set- by different agencies . and to al- will be granted for special tled at Hite's Cove, about ten miles low users to be able to plan a circumstances involving public southwest of Yosemite Valley. where multi-area wilderness trip under purpose only by the respective others of her people lived . She later this policy. In the past, the maxi- Forest Supervisor or Park Super- married Lebrado Yderte, a Mexican mum group size allowed on dif- intendent. miner who worked for John Hite. ferent forests and parks ranged For assistance in coordinating The couple had four daughters . She and Yderte homesteaded acreage and from eight to 25 people, and cre- the new limits in respect to trip built a small cabin near Bear Creek ated confusion when the group planning, please contact your northeast of Mariposa where Maria crossed a forest and/or park nearby National Forest or Na- resided for the rest of her long life. boundary. The group sizes are tional Park headquarters. In 1928 she gave Carl Russell the the numbers preferred by the interview that appears in this text. planted by the Washburn family Some historical writers have seized He is not only helping to pre- upon her story as proof that Tenieya was not killed in Yosemite Valley in serve Yosemite 's history, but is retaliation for horse stealing by his an important part of it. braves as Bunnell describes . There He was born in Wawona on are, however. several reasons to be April 26, 1918 . As a young boy, skeptical about Maria's account. For Gordon patrolled the Washburn one thing . she says that Tenieya was Ditch to break up ice and clear killed some months l'erore the attack debris from the channel which on the miners in May, 1852 . All other ran from Stella Lake to a power reports agree that the Chief was not house. producing Wawona's elec- murdered until the late summer or fall of 1853. tricity. In winter he helped cut ice In addition, she says that Indian at Stella Lake for cold storage. Tom Hutchings told the other Yosem- Gordon shucked corn for the Wa- ite Indians about Tenieya's death at wona Hotel, drove the local milk Mono Lake after a gambling quarrel, run. fired the hotel's boiler, ran which he witnessed . Tom then burned the Shell Station at Wawona, the bodies of the five dead Yosemites worked on the Blister Rust pro- and carried their remains hack to the gram and was a crew boss for South Fork where a great two-week construction of the Yosemite "cry" was held . If true, this would have meant that Indian Tom crossed Lodge . He was a volunteer fire- the Sierra on foot near the dead of man and chief for 14 years and winter — a practical impossibility. president of the Water Associa- Moreover, one cannot help wonder- tion for two years . Today, after oil page la

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Dennis Kruska, Ben dig why Indian Tom . who later Jr. Robert & Sheryl Hickle, Barbara became an employee and devoted Hogan, Mr & Mrs Clark Howe, Mau- ange County Sierra Singles . Mary Ja- Kudo . Bill Kumagai vareen Jackson, Julie A Jarrett, Warren nis Robinson, Barton Stebbins Marla LaCass . Diane Lando. Louis member of the James Hutchings fam- Jarvis . Gaylyn Johnson . Donna Keck, In ,nc,norr of Jon Kinney: Mr & Mrs H Lanzer. Aldaron Laird . Eric Larson. ily (he even took the family name). Joseph Kendrick, Cynthia & James L Kinney Joe Latuada, Martha J Lee, Carolyn never mentioned this important event King, T Tachovsky & K Knudson, Sue Lekki, Dana Leonard, William LeRoy. to his close friend Hutchings (Hutch- & Vince Kovacevich, Lloyd & Martha In rnernory of john Packel: Family and Julie Limberg, Katherine M Littell, ings gave Bunnell 's version of Ten- Kramer, Samuel D Krutz, Sivn & Gus friends Tim Ludington, Marlene Luna, ieya's death in his 1886 book. In the Larsen, James E Leap . Barbara Lems. hr ;nerwort' o f Stephan Schaie: K Warner Stephen Lyman Ilean of the Sterns). A Carrasco & J Lindquist, Ronald Schaie Ron Mackie, Mike Maderious, 'Ilse most obvious incongruity, Lockyer. Gloria Lotten . Harriet Dale Maharidge. Marriott's Tenaya however, is Maria 's description of In honor of 11' 'a& Suitt? : The Morrison Manke, Thomas V Martin, Donna & Foerster Foundation Lodge, Marciano Martinez, Jay Hite's Cove : "Hite's Cove mine had Maykut, Glynn & Barbara McArn, Mather, Liz Maxwell . Dana McBride. just been opened . My half-sister Lucy Gail Yee McCaffrey, DeAnn K Anne McDonald . Bridget McGin.niss. lived with Mr. Hite and was always McF.wen, Tim Messick, Gary Muerle, Marilyn & Ray McKeever, Len known as Lucy Hite . Tom Hutchings Brian Nafziger. Rick Nelson . Jackson McKenzie, Pamela McKernan, Skip took Tenieya's hones to Hite 's Cove Ng, Fred & Debbie Nicholson, Frank Friends of the McLaughlin, Pam McMillan, Nancy Menken . Peggy Merica . Tim Messick. for burial" Lucy Hite, who was a P Notarianni, Tony & Mary Ellen Association, 1991 child about Mania 's age at the time. Oliveira . Jack Olney. Elizabeth A Tom Meyer, Hank Miller, Martha t take up with John Hite until at Olson, S Jefferies & M Olson, Linda Miller, Mono Lake Committee, Peggy didn ' The following fine people and least a decade later. It is a matter of A Paquette . Nayana & Arun Parikh. companies made generous contri- Moore . Russell Morimoto, Olga Mor- Patricia M Paulsen, Suzanne Peck, ris, Mountain Light Books, Laurel record that Hite found his gold mine George Proper. Ralph Richardson. butions of their time . money. or Munson-Boyers . Sally Murray in 1862. long after the events Maria is Don Ridgway, Jason Rubinsteen, energy during the past year. We Roderick Nash, Bill Neill, Jeff describing occurred. Margaret M Rust, Karen Salomon, thank them copiously, and apolo- Nicholas, Jim Nortman Since Bunnell was living in the Donald & Marilyn Sanders. Gwen gize to anyone whose name was Oakhurst Frameworks & Gifts. lower Merced Canyon when Tenieya Scott, Craig Sears, Sarah Serrano-Hill, inadvertently omitted. Oly Olson, Kathleen Orr, Michael was killed and based his account on Devi Sharp . Robert G Shepler, Allan Osborne, Michael Osborne Design reports from the Yosemite Indians Shields, Suzanne H Shockley, L H Sil- Jeanne & Michael Adams, Barbara Gene Paletta, John Palmer, Robert fleeing from the massacre, his story is ver, Gary I . Simms . Jan Sinnick . Doris Allen . Kat Anderson . Pat Anderson. Pavlik, Cherry Payne, Jacqueline Pen- more likely correct. There seems to Sloan, Anne C Spencer. Ann Stein . C Steve Anderson, Ansel Adams ney, Magda Pergrine, Barbara Phillips, be no reason to suppose that either Ronis & S Steinman, Craig S Struble, Gallery, Paula Artac . Sue Austin Jack Phinney Richard Pier, Pines Re- Bunnell or the Indians would invent a K A Szymanski, Jan & Bill Terry. Mark Bachalder. Gary Baier. The sort. John Poimiroo, Tino Pontrelli. shameful end for Tenieya . Perhaps Marie J Traub, Bob & Vermont Triebig, Bob Bangham Family, Craig Bates, Lorraine Potter, Alex Powers the old Chief and his band were dri- Jeffrey Trust . Lisa Wainwright . Betty Karen Batten, Bob Beck. Kay Beeley. Elizabeth Quinn ven from Mono Lake after a fight B Webster, Jane RI Nelson Weller, Henry & Eileen Berrey, Barbara Kristin Ramsey. Anne-Jeanette over a gambling game, then stole the Kenneth & Anna Weller, Matthew Beroza . Otto Best. Mike and Medsie Rankin, Paul Rauscher. The Red- Bolin. Tom Borchardt . Annette Bat- woods, Glen Reid, Jack & Gay Rei- horses out of anger rather than greed Werner, Vikki Whiteside-Brown. and were subsequently massacred as Karen A Wiese, Douglas J Wiktor. taro-Walklet, Annie Boucher, Darrell neck, Jackie Reis, Horst Remmling, Ann Witman . Alicia Woodall . Sharon Boyers . Marjorie Brooks. Peter John Reynolds . Mary Janis Robinson. Bunnell says. Woodward, Mary & Steve Worth. Browning, Ginger Burley. Martha Diane Roedenbeck, Roberta Rogers, Lilly Yasuhara Butterfield Bob Roney, Gene Rose, Martin Harts` Johnston, a 20-year resident Barbara Cady, California Data Mar- Rosen, Michael Ross, Galen Rowell, Supporting Members of Yosemite, is the author of 13 keting, Dan Card, Scott Carpenter, Roger Rudolph, William Ryan books on California histort: His Hugh & Lou Carter, Cedar Lodge Maren Sampson . San Rafael Robert Ackerman, Eric & Jan Archer, Yosemite 's Brenda Jane Baker, Barbara Bristow, Restaurant, I-es Chow, Inka Chris- Design Group, Kaye Santos, Shirley most recent works are Donald W Campbell . Howard H tiansen, Mary Christiansen . Emily Sargent . Jeffrey Schaffer. Scope Enter- Yesterdays and Yosemite 's Yester- Chapman. Michael Hannigan . Lynn Clarillos, Norman Clayton . Arnold & prises, Kay Peters Sermon . Carl Shar- days, Volume II.

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