The Yosemite in Winter: an 1892 account. by James M. Carson, with extracts from John Muir's writings.

An appreciation of Yosemite Valley's winter character and an early history of the first winter residents, with plenty of quoted passages from John Muir, who also was a year-round valley resident in the early days. Reports of floods, in which trees were swept over the waterfalls, of the ice-cone at the base of Upper Yosemite Fall, snow-banners flying off rangecrest peaks, use of "snowshoes" (skis, today) to bring in the mail, winter-time climatic differences between north and south sides of this deep east-west trending valley due to shadows. Foreword by former Yosemite Chief Park Naturalist William Jones.Period engravings. 16 pages.

John Muir.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-053-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-053-9. Order #: VIST0053 paper$3.95.

 

Sample pages and illustrations from The Yosemite in Winter:

                    

END OF VISTABOOKS "The Yosemite in Winter: an 1892 account" PAGE--click for TOP

to Yosemite page
to National Parks page
to California/Nevada page
to John Muir page
to Explorations/Mountaineering page
to National Parks page
to Master Title List--by alpha
to VistaBooks Home/Contents or use links in sidebars

---

This "VistaBooks: The Yosemite in Winter: an 1892 account" page was last modified August 12, 2023. Did you come here from a link on another website? For latest version of this page, click or copy to your browser: https://www.vistabooks.com/titles/vistpubs0053.html. Copyright © 2023 VistaBooks LLC.

Need help? email. We want you to find what you want to find.
     Thanks for looking!