As a part of my initial framing of the book I am spending this year highlighting documents from the Yosemite archives that tell the park’s history. Some are known tales, others are not. But they are helping me frame my ideas on Yosemite and offer a peek behind the curtain at my own use of sources in a public manner. To read what I have done thus far click on the links below:
Celebrating Yosemite Part 1 – Yosemite’s 150th
Celebrating Yosemite Part 2: James Hutchings and Creating Yosemite
Celebrating Yosemite Part 3: The Banning of Automobiles from Yosemite
Celebrating Yosemite Part 4 – Hetch Hetchy: The Best and Highest Use?
Celebrating Yosemite Part 5 – The 1937 Yosemite Valley Flood
Celebrating Yosemite Part 6 – Solace During a Time of War
Celebrating Yosemite Part 8 – The Stoneman Meadow Riots and Problem of Law Enforcement
Celebrating Yosemite Part 9 – Wilderness in Yosemite
Celebrating Yosemite Part 10 – Yosemite’s Unlikely Role in the Sage Brush Rebellion
Celebrating Yosemite Part 11 – The 1997 Merced Flood and the Future of Yosemite
Celebrating Yosemite Part 12 – Closing Thoughts and Hiking Half Dome
Michael W. Childers 