The Yosemite
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John Muir. The Yosemite
Chapter 1. The Approach to the Valley
The Sierra From The West
Characteristics Of The Cañons
The Incomparable Yosemite
The Approach To The Valley
The First View: The Bridal Veil
General Features Of The Valley
The Upper Cañons
Natural Features Near The Valley
Down The Yosemite Creek
The Yosemite Fall
A Wonderful Ascent
The Grandeur Of The Yosemite Fall
The Nevada Fall
The Vernal Fall
The Illilouette Fall
The Minor Falls
The Beauty Of The Rainbows
An Unexpected Adventure
Climate And Weather
Winter Beauty Of The Valley
Exploring An Ice Cone
Chapter 2. Winter Storms and Spring Floods
An Extraordinary Storm And Flood
Chapter 3. Snow-Storms
Avalanches
A Ride On An Avalanche
The Streams In Other Seasons
Chapter 4. Snow Banners
A Wonderful Winter Scene
Earthquake Storms
Chapter 5. The Trees of the Valley
Chapter 6. The Forest Trees in General
The Sugar Pine, King Of Pine Trees
The Yellow Or Silver Pine
The Douglas Spruce
The Incense Cedar
The Silver Firs
The Two-Leaved Pine
The Mountain Pine
The Western Juniper
The Mountain Hemlock
The White-Bark Pine
The Nut Pine
Chapter 7. The Big Trees
Chapter 8. The Flowers
Chapter 9. The Birds
Chapter 10. The South Dome
Chapter 11. The Ancient Yosemite Glaciers: How the Valley Was Formed
Chapter 12. How Best to Spend One's Yosemite Time
One-Day Excursions. No. 1
One-Day Excursions. No. 2
Two-Day Excursions. No. 1
Two-Day Excursions. No. 2
A Three-Day Excursion
The Upper Tuolumne Excursion
Other Trips From The Valley
Chapter 13. Early History Of The Valley
Chapter 14. Lamon
Chapter 15. Galen Clark
Chapter 16. Hetch Hetchy Valley
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When I set out on the long excursion that finally led to California I wandered afoot and alone, from Indiana to the Gulf of Mexico, with a plant-press on my back, holding a generally southward course, like the birds when they are going from summer to winter. From the west coast of Florida I crossed the gulf to Cuba, enjoyed the rich tropical flora there for a few months, intending to go thence to the north end of South America, make my way through the woods to the headwaters of the Amazon, and float down that grand river to the ocean. But I was unable to find a ship bound for South America–fortunately perhaps, for I had incredibly little money for so long a trip and had not yet fully recovered from a fever caught in the Florida swamps. Therefore I decided to visit California for a year or two to see its wonderful flora and the famous Yosemite Valley. All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.
Arriving by the Panama steamer, I stopped one day in San Francisco and then inquired for the nearest way out of town. "But where do you want to go?" asked the man to whom I had applied for this important information. "To any place that is wild," I said. This reply startled him. He seemed to fear I might be crazy and therefore the sooner I was out of town the better, so he directed me to the Oakland ferry.
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Almost immediately opposite the Sentinel are the Three Brothers, an immense mountain mass with three gables fronting the Valley, one above another, the topmost gable nearly 4000 feet high. They were named for three brothers, sons of old Tenaya, the Yosemite chief, captured here during the Indian War, at the time of the discovery of the Valley in 1852.
Sauntering up the Valley through meadow and grove, in the company of these majestic rocks, which seem to follow us as we advance, gazing, admiring, looking for new wonders ahead where all about us is so wonderful, the thunder of the Yosemite Fall is heard, and when we arrive in front of the Sentinel Rock it is revealed in all its glory from base to summit, half a mile in height, and seeming to spring out into the Valley sunshine direct from the sky. But even this fall, perhaps the most wonderful of its kind in the world, cannot at first hold our attention, for now the wide upper portion of the Valley is displayed to view, with the finely modeled North Dome, the Royal Arches and Washington Column on our left; Glacier Point, with its massive, magnificent sculpture on the right; and in the middle, directly in front, looms Tissiack or Half Dome, the most beautiful and most sublime of all the wonderful Yosemite rocks, rising in serene majesty from flowery groves and meadows to a height of 4750 feet.
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