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Park service administrators felt that limiting the number of concessionaires in the park would be more financially sound. The Curry Company and its rival, the Yosemite National Park Company, were forced to merge in 1925 to form the Yosemite Park & Curry Company (YP&CC). [50] The company built the Ahwahnee Hotel in 1926–27. [51]
Dam!: Water, Power, Politics, and Preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-375-42231-5. Whitney, Josiah Dwight (1874). The Yosemite guide-book: a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California. University Press; printed by Welch, Bigelow ...
Eight years before Yellowstone was established as America’s first national park, President Abraham Lincoln signed a document called the Yosemite Valley Grant Act in 1864. This act protected ...
Humans may have lived in the Yosemite area as long as 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. [1] Habitation of the Yosemite Valley proper can be traced to about 3,000 years ago, when vegetation and game in the region was similar to that present today; the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada had acorns, deer, and salmon, while the eastern Sierra had pinyon nuts and obsidian. [2]
The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America's Most Popular National Park. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1805-7. OCLC 714731511. Kruska, Dennis (2009). James Mason Hutchings of Yo Semite. A Biography and Bibliography. San Francisco: Book Club of California. ISBN 978-0-9819-5971-9. OCLC 461317451.
Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber. The Mountaineers. ISBN 0-89886-587-5. Schaffer, Jeffrey P. (1999). Yosemite National Park: A Natural History Guide to Yosemite and Its Trails. Berkeley: Wilderness Press. ISBN 0-89997-244-6. Schoenherr, Allan A. (1995). A Natural History of California. UC Press. ISBN 0-520-06922-6.
The hotel will close Dec. 2 with no date for reopening, according to the National Park Service. 168-year-old Yosemite National Park hotel is closing. What to know about the Wawona
The first road completed was the Coulterville & Yosemite Turnpike, which opened in June 1874. Shortly after, the Chinese Camp & Yosemite Turnpike, later known as the Big Oak Flat Road, began operations. In 1875, the Washburn brothers completed the Wawona Road—the third road to reach Yosemite and the most enduring—providing access from the ...