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In the spring of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt took a long trip to the far American West and capped his visit with a four-day camping trip through Yosemite with famed naturalist John Muir. Dodging persistent reporters, the men rode through ancient sequoia forests, climbed Glacier Peak and camped at the foot of Bridalveil Fall. As a direct result of this trip Roosevelt used his influence to help establish five new national parks and to create...
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"In June of 1889 in San Francisco, John Muir-iconic environmentalist, writer, and philosopher-meets face-to-face for the first time with his longtime editor Robert Underwood Johnson, an elegant and influential figure at The Century magazine. Before long, the pair, opposites in many ways, decide to venture to Yosemite Valley, the magnificent site where twenty years earlier, Muir experienced a personal and spiritual awakening that would set the course...
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Two veterans of Sierra Nevada wilderness chronicle the first comprehensive history of fatal misadventures in Yosemite National Park from the time of the 1849 'discovery' of Yosemite Valley up to visitors falling off its giant waterfalls in the 21st century. The accounts of the nearly 900 people who have met untimely deaths in Yosemite offer the most astounding array of adventures, misadventures, history, and life-saving lessons between two covers....