INDIANS OF THE YOSEMITE VALLEY AND VICINITY: Their History, Customs and Traditions. With and Appendix of Useful Information for Yosemite Visitors.
Yosemite Valley: Galen Clark, 1904. First edition. Original stapled decorative wrappers, 6.75 x 4.5 inches, xix, 110 pp. + 24 pp. ads. many illustrations from photographs. Minor wear to wrapper, about very good. Item #23632
Galen Clark (1814 - 1910) was the Canadian-born naturalist and conservationist who was an early champion for the preservation of Yosemite. He is credited with being the first European to discover the Mariposa Grove of old-growth giant sequoias (1857) and he became a an important part of the movement to preserve the Yosemite. In 1864 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant (giving the Yosemite valley and surrounding area to California for preservation and management) into law, Galen Clark was appointed the first "Guardian of the Grant." Clark wrote and published 4 books on Yosemite of which this is the first. Cowan p. 126.
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