Nature's Mountain Mansion

Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite

Gary Noy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2022
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3251-9 (ISBN)

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Nature’s Mountain Mansion focuses exclusively on the critical nineteenth century when Yosemite was “discovered” by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the nation’s most visited national parks.

Nature’s Mountain Mansion is the first anthology on Yosemite that focuses exclusively on the nineteenth century, the critical period in which Yosemite was “discovered” by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the country’s most visited national parks. While there are volumes that provide readings about Yosemite in the nineteenth century, few provide critical—sometimes even disparaging—eyewitness reflections on the Yosemite experience, and none include excerpts from the government documents that defined the future of the park, such as the Yosemite Valley Grant Act of 1864.

This anthology collects selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents that demonstrate the glory, the brutality, and the controversies surrounding this extraordinary and much-loved landscape. Some selections have not appeared in print since their original publication, while others have not been republished or excerpted for decades.

Gary Noy has taught history at Sierra Community College in Rocklin, California, for more than three decades. He is the editor of Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-Century American West (Nebraska, 1999) and author of Hellacious California! Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State, among other books.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Soul of the Ah-wah’-nee: The First People
2. “Earth’s Undecaying Monuments”: Geological Formation
3. “The Blood-Swollen God”: The Mariposa Indian War and Mariposa Battalion, 1851–1852
4. “The Lark at Heaven’s Gate Sings”: Initial Encounters, 1850–1859
5. “Sermons in Stone”: John Muir
6. “Enter These Enchanted Woods, You Who Dare”: Reverie and Rusticity, 1860–1869
7. “All Places That the Eye of Heaven Visits”: Improvements and Irritations, 1870–1889
8. “An Intelligent and Generous Policy towards the Yosemite”: Trepidation and Transformation, 1890–1899
Epilogue
Source Acknowledgments
Sources

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2022
Zusatzinfo	45 photographs, 3 tables
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4962-3251-8 / 1496232518
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3251-9 / 9781496232519
Zustand	Neuware