One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends

Author(s): Carl Parcher Russell

Genre(s): History, Nature, Travel & Geography

Narrators: David Wales

Number of Chapters: 13

Length: 06 hours and 47 minutes

Language: English

This recording of the 1931 (1947 second edition) book about Yosemite National Park comprises the narrative text about the Park from its discovery by non-natives in the Indian War of 1851 to the mid-twentieth century. The printed book contains dozens of early photographs and drawings, as well as an extensive timeline and bibliography, which are not here recorded. The author (1894-1967) was an ecologist, historian, and administrator. He was an officer of the U.S. National Park Service for thirty four years, serving as the Chief Naturalist of Yosemite from 1923-1929 and later as Park Superintendent. - Summary by David Wales