The Proposed Yosemite National Park. by John Muir--1 to 9 copies. Brand new.

This is a listing for 1 to 9 copies ofThe Proposed Yosemite National Park--treasures & features, 1890. by John Muir.Perhaps the most important writing Muir ever did (and he did a lot), for here he proposed a national park, which was soon established. He and his editor had hatched the scheme around a Tuolumne Meadows campfire, and so Muir became known as the "Father of Yosemite National Park." The writing is mostly descriptive, in Muir's magnificent style, covering the grand scenes, waterfall explorations, storm flooding, sequoias, glaciers, Hetch Hetchy Valley, and more. An included map shows Muir's proposed park boundaries, larger than today's, as one might imagine, for there was controversy about taking too much mineral land from potential production. Also shown is the watershed of the Yosemite Valley, as a major purpose of the new park was to protect the waterfalls of Yosemite Valley from upstream lumbering and sheep-grazing. At that time, Yosemite Valley was under state operation and the new park would not affect that; later, however, the valley was returned to federal management and the present park achieved its wholeness.Credit is also due editor Johnson of Century Magazine. He also arranged for publication of articles on other topics of American history to be written by their observers, lest those original sources be lost Foreword by former Yosemite Chief Park Naturalist William Jones.Reprinted from 1890, with period engravings. 32 pages. ISBN-10: 0-89646-003-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-003-4. Published by VistaBooks. Binding is trade paper with perfect-bind spine printed with title and author.The book is listed as brand new as it is from publisher's inventory and has never circulated.This book is listed by the publisher at $3.95 per copy. Multi-copy purchases here are much lower as  shown. Ships via U.S. media mail to U.S. addresses only. If order is needed before stated handling time, email your needs before ordering as we can usually comply--we will email our response; we just don't want to suggest more than what we might be able to do in case we're in a crunch or on a trip.

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