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THE YOSEMITE IN WINTER: an 1892 account.THE YOSEMITE IN WINTER: an 1892 account.

by James M. Carson, with extracts from John Muir's writings.John Muir portrait

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. Period engravings. 16 pages.
Inventory = in stock in quantity. ISBN-10: 0-89646-053-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-053-9. 1981. Order #: VIST0053 paper$4.95.


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