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A Way Across the Mountain : Joseph Walker's 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite's Discovery
- Title
- A Way Across the Mountain : Joseph Walker's 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite's Discovery / by Scott Stine.
- Author
- Stine, Scott, 1950-
- Publication
- Norman, Oklahoma : The Arthur H. Clark Company, an imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | IXR 15-5880 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
Details
- Description
- 317 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm
- Series Statement
- American trails series ; volume 25
- Subjects
- California
- Walker, Joseph Rutherford, 1798-1876
- Leonard, Zenas, 1809-1857
- History
- California > Yosemite Valley
- Yosemite Valley (Calif.) > Discovery and exploration
- To 1846
- Discoveries in geography
- United States > Sierra Nevada
- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > Discovery and exploration
- California > History > To 1846
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-306) and index.
- Contents
- A place among giants: Joe Walker and his legacy of exploration and discovery -- Presuppositions and proclamations: leading Walker across the Sierra -- Background: Joseph Walker and his places and times -- Excursion 1. The tripwires and pitfalls of romanticization -- Following Walker: setting pace, setting dates -- Excursion 2. The matter of maximum sustainable pace -- Following Walker to "the lakes" and into Bloody Battle -- Following Walker to the highly alkaline, pumice-lined lake -- Excursion 3. Pathfinders and their contributions -- Following Walker from the pumice-lined lake to the Sierran front -- To the Sierran front: the implausibility of routes previously proposed -- Following Walker to "the top" of the Sierra -- Excursion 4. Joe Walker and Zenas Leonard, creatures of the Little Ice Age -- Seeking and descending the Pacific slope: a chronologic summary -- Imagining Yosemite: arguments against a path past the iconic rock colossus -- Seeking and descending the Pacific slope: criteria and constraints -- Following Walker from "the top" to the base of the Mountain Brink -- Following Walker from the base of the Brink to the mountain-foothills border -- Following Walker from the mountain-foothills border to "the most remarkable watercourse" -- On toward Monterey -- Plausibility of a passage through the Truckee-American Sierra: eliminating the dark-horse route -- Lore's origins: a myth to match the mountains -- The outland and the outlandish: barriers to geographic understanding -- Excursion 5. Where is there from here? -- An outland of the modern mind -- Summary and conclusions.
- Call Number
- IXR 15-5880
- ISBN
- 9780870624322 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0870624326 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014043699
- OCLC
- 903811630
- Author
- Stine, Scott, 1950- author.
- Title
- A Way Across the Mountain : Joseph Walker's 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite's Discovery / by Scott Stine.
- Publisher
- Norman, Oklahoma : The Arthur H. Clark Company, an imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- American trails series ; volume 25
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-306) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1846
- Research Call Number
- IXR 15-5880