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Yosemite and Sequoia: A Century of California National Parks
Yosemite and Sequoia A Century of California National Parks
Author: Richard J. Orsi, Alfred Runte
A century and a quarter ago, the national park idea was born when Abraham Lincoln signed legislation setting aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias "for public use, resort, and recreation inalienable for all time." Over the next decade, the Yosemite park commissioners had to fight private land claims to the valley. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520081611
ISBN-10: 0520081617
Publication Date: 6/17/1993
Pages: 146
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Publisher: California Historical Society
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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