A Way Across the Mountain: Joseph Walker’s 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite’s Discovery. By Scott Stine
| Autor: | Barton H. Barbour |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| Zdroj: | Western Historical Quarterly. 47:348-349 |
| ISSN: | 1939-8603 0043-3810 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/whq/whw060 |
| Popis: | A Way Across the Mountain: Joseph Walker’s 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite’s Discovery . By Scott Stine. (Norman: Arthur H. Clark, 2015. 317 pp. Illustrations, maps, chart, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.) Scott Stine, emeritus professor of geography and anthropology and an experienced Sierra trekker, sets out to explain “a milestone in the exploration of intermontane North America,” Joseph Walker’s westward transit of Southern California’s Sierra Nevada (p. 19). Stine also aims to unravel a “myth” originating in an 1876 eulogy that asserted Walker was the first white man to see the future Yosemite National Park. The book is organized strangely, with twenty-one “chapters” (several occupy one to five pages), five interspersed “excursions” (with titles like “The Matter of … bbarbour{at}boisestate.edu |
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