A way across the mountain : Joseph Walker's 1833 trans-sierran passage and the myth of Yosemite's discovery /
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Norman, Oklahoma :
The Arthur H. Clark Company, an imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press,
2015.
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| Series: | American trails series (Arthur H. Clark Company) ;
25. |
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| 245 | 1 | 2 | |a A way across the mountain : |b Joseph Walker's 1833 trans-sierran passage and the myth of Yosemite's discovery / |c by Scott Stine. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Norman, Oklahoma : |b The Arthur H. Clark Company, an imprint of the University of Oklahoma Press, |c 2015. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2015 | |
| 300 | |a 317 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 27 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a American trails series ; |v volume XXV | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a A place among giants: Joe Walker and his legacy of exploration and discovery -- Presuppositions and proclamations : leading Walker across the Sierra -- Background : Joseph Walker and his places and times -- Excursion 1. The tripwires and pitfalls of romanticization -- Following Walker : setting pace, setting dates -- Excursion 2. The matter of maximum sustainable pace -- Following Walker to "the lakes" and into Bloody Battle -- Following Walker to the highly alkaline, pumice-lined lake -- Excursion 3. Pathfinders and their contributions -- Following Walker from the pumice-lined lake to the Sierran front -- To the Sierran front : the implausibility of routes previously proposed -- Following Walker to "the top" of the Sierra -- Excursion 4. Joe Walker and Zenas Leonard, creatures of the Little Ice Age -- Seeking and descending the Pacific slope : a chronologic summary -- Imagining Yosemite : arguments against a path past the iconic rock colossus -- Seeking and descending the Pacific slope : criteria and constraints -- Following Walker from "the top" to the base of the Mountain Brink -- Following Walker from the base of the Brink to the mountain-foothills border -- Following Walker from the mountain-foothills border to "the most remarkable watercourse" -- On toward Monterey -- Plausibility of a passage through the Truckee-American Sierra : eliminating the dark-horse route -- Lore's origins : a myth to match the mountains -- The outland and the outlandish : barriers to geographic understanding -- Excursion 5. Where is there from here? -- An outland of the modern mind -- Summary and conclusions. | |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Walker, Joseph Rutherford, |d 1798-1876. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00113025 |
| 651 | 0 | |a Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) |x Discovery and exploration. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Walker, Joseph Rutherford, |d 1798-1876. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Leonard, Zenas, |d 1809-1857. |
| 651 | 0 | |a Yosemite Valley (Calif.) |x Discovery and exploration. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a California |x History |y To 1846. | |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a Leonard, Zenas, |d 1809-1857. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00441987 |
| 650 | 7 | |a Discoveries in geography. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00894950 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a California. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204928 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a California |z Yosemite Valley. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01243895 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a United States |z Sierra Nevada. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01310392 | |
| 648 | 7 | |a To 1846 |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 830 | 0 | |a American trails series (Arthur H. Clark Company) ; |v 25. | |
| 899 | |a 415_565689 | ||
| 988 | |a 20151107 | ||
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