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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]
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 ...
June 15, 1978 (North of El Portal: Yosemite National Park: 24: Merced Lake High Sierra Camp: July 18, 2014 (Along north bank of Merced River, directly east of Merced Lake
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.
YP&CC also founded the Yosemite Winter Club and introduced the iconic Bracebridge Dinner, a seasonal event started in 1927 that became a hallmark of Yosemite's cultural offerings. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] Additionally, YP&CC expanded the High Sierra Camps , which offered guided camping trips in the park's backcountry, and founded the Yosemite Mountaineering ...
Shirley Sargent (July 12, 1927 – December 3, 2004) was an historian of the Yosemite area in the United States.. Sargent was born in Pasadena, California.Her father was a surveyor who helped rebuild the Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park, starting in 1936.
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