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The illuminated landscape : a Sierra Nevada anthology / edited by Gary Noy and Rick Heide ; foreword by Robert Hanna ; illustrations by Joe Medeiros.

Title
The illuminated landscape : a Sierra Nevada anthology / edited by Gary Noy and Rick Heide ; foreword by Robert Hanna ; illustrations by Joe Medeiros.
Publication
Rocklin, Calif. : Sierra College Press ; Santa Clara, Calif. : Santa Clara University ; Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Noy, Gary, 1951-
  • Heide, Rick, 1943-
  • Santa Clara University (Calif.)
Description
xiv, 447 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
California legacy book
Uniform Title
California legacy book
Subject
  • Travelers' writings, American > Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
  • Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > Description and travel
  • Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) > History > Anecdotes
Genre/Form
  • Anecdotes
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • I. Golden misty dawn: To 1840 : The origin of the Sierra Nevadas and Coast range / The Yokuts ; Prayer for good fortune / The Yokuts ; Weh hai ge ge a ' The Washo ; Old gambler's song / The Konkow ; Football big time / William Joseph ; My mountain / Jack Stewart ; Mountain Lion and his children / The Maidu ; from Font's Complete diary: Tuesday, April 2, 1776 --^
  • II. The opening eyelids of dawn: 1841-1859 : Chief Winnemucca, Peter Burnett, and John Bigler ; from Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and California in the years 1843-'44 / John C. Frémont ; from Snow mountain passage / James D.^
  • Houston ; from What I saw in California / Edwin Bryant ; from A frontier lady / Sarah Eleanor Royce ; from Eldorado / Bayard Taylor ; from Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851 which led to that event / Lafayette Bunnell ; from California inter pocula / Hubert Howe Bancroft ; from The Journal of Henry David Thoreau / Henry David Thoreau ; from Jim Beckwourth, Crow chief / Olive Burt ; The luck of Roaring Camp / Bret Harte ; The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain ; from Los chilenos en California / Ramon Gil Navarro ; from Daughter of fortune / Isabel Allende ; from The life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the celebrated California bandit / John Rollin Ridge ; My grizzly bear / Jessie Benton Frémont ; Letter of January 27, 1852 / Dame Shirley (Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe) ; from I hear the hogs in my kitchen / Mary Ballou ; from Ghost town / G. Ezra Dane ; from Scenes of wonder and curiosity in California / James M.^
  • Hutchings ; from An overland journey from New York to San Francisco, in the summer of 1859 / Horace Greeley -- III. Always afternoon: 1860-1899 : from Roughing it / Mark Twain ; from Up and down California in 1860-1864 / William Brewer ; from Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada / Clarence King ; from China men / Maxine Hong Kingston ; from "Passage to India" / Walt Whitman ; from Across the plains / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Eight days in the Yosemite / Grace Greenwood ; from A journal of ramblings through the high Sierra of California / Joseph LeConte ; A wind storm in the forests of the Yuba / John Muir ; from Americans and the California dream, 1850-1915 / Kevin Starr ; Portrait of a California girl / Ella Sterling Cummins Mighels ; from A Victorian gentlewoman in the far west / Mary Hallock Foote ; from McTeague / Frank Norris ; All gold cañon / Jack London --^
  • IV. Shadows in the alpenglow: 1900-1950 ; from The land of little rain / Mary Austin ; from The northern Maidu / Marie Potts ; "Yosemite" / Joaquin Miller ; from A dangerous place / Marc Reisner ; from The Yosemite / John Muir ; Newspaper series, 1928 / Chiura Obata ; from Sierra Club Bulletin, February 1932 / Ansel Adams ; "Blues" / Kenneth Rexroth ; from One day on Beetle Rock / Sally Carrighar ; from Farewell to Manzanar / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston -- V. Twilight of the dawn: 1951-1990 ; from The dharma bums / Jack Kerouac ; "What happened here before" / Gary Snyder ; "Bride of the bear" / William Everson ; "Indian summer" / Bill Hotchkiss ; from Gentle Wilderness / David Brower ; Favors / Alic Adams ; from It will live forever / Bev Ortiz ; from Nature noir / Jordan Fisher Smith ; from Angle of repose / Wallace Stegner --^
  • VI. Quiet-colored end of evening: 1991-present : from The Sierra in peril / Tom Knudson ; "Questions for a Miwok uncle: Ahwahneechee man" / Wendy Rose ; "Late summer in the Sierra" / Janice Gould ; from A place in space / Gary Snyder ; Sitting on top of the world / T. Coraghessan Boyle ; from Lighting out / Daniel Duane ; from Yosemite / Ann Zwinger ; Josefa of Downieville: the obscure life and notable death of a chicana in gold rush California / Alejandro Murguia ; "Tribal identity grade three" / Sylvia Ross ; from Crow's range / David Beesley ; from The secret Sierra / David Gilligan ; "Holiday train to Reno" / Ishmael Reed ; "Clan markings, Stanislau National Forest, 1980s" / Maria Melendez ; American woman / Jordan Fisher Smith ; The ark of the Sierra / Gary Snyder ; The power of trees / Joe Medeiros.
ISBN
  • 9781597141284 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1597141283 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010000435
OCLC
  • 495271591
  • SCSB-10916359
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