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The Journal Of William H. Brewer, Professor Of Agriculture In The
Sheffield Scientific School From 1864-1903.
From the time it was sighted by Spanish explorers in the eighteenth
century through the creation of the John Muir trail, the building
of the Hetch Hetchy Dam, and the founding of the Sierra Club, the
great snowy range of California has provided fulfillment to
generations of trappers, immigrants, engineers, naturalists, and
tourists. Now a mountaineering classic, this pioneering book was
the first to synthesize into a single, riveting narrative all of
the varied aspects of human endeavor related to the history of the
Sierra Nevada. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs, drawings,
and maps, the book continues to be indispensable for any lover of
the high country.
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
In 1860 William Brewer, a young Yale-educated teacher of the
natural sciences and a recent widower, eagerly accepted an offer
from Josiah Whitney to assist in the first geological survey of the
state of California. Brewer was not a geologist, but his training
in agriculture and botany made him an invaluable member of the
team. He traveled more than fourteen thousand miles in the four
years he spent in California and spent much of his leisure time
writing lively, detailed letters to his brother back East. These
warmly affectionate letters, presented here in their entirety,
describe the new state in all its spectacular beauty and paint a
vivid picture of California in the mid-nineteenth century. This
fourth edition includes a new foreword by William Bright (1500
California Place Names) and a set of maps tracing Brewer's route.
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