416 pages
45 photographs, 3 tables
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Soul of the Ah-wah’-nee: The First People
2. “Earth’s Undecaying Monuments”: Geological Formation
3. “The Blood-Swollen God”: The Mariposa Indian War and Mariposa Battalion, 1851–1852
4. “The Lark at Heaven’s Gate Sings”: Initial Encounters, 1850–1859
5. “Sermons in Stone”: John Muir
6. “Enter These Enchanted Woods, You Who Dare”: Reverie and Rusticity, 1860–1869
7. “All Places That the Eye of Heaven Visits”: Improvements and Irritations, 1870–1889
8. “An Intelligent and Generous Policy towards the Yosemite”: Trepidation and Transformation, 1890–1899
Epilogue
Source Acknowledgments
Sources