06-25-2021, 07:23 AM
Ho! For Yo-Semite by Hank Johnston
Cheese and rice did Hank Johnston write a lot of books about Yosemite back in the 1990s. Ho! for Yo-Semite was a typical rallying cry in the late 19thcentury to get people to go to Yosemite. This a collection of 11 contemporaneous articles of how people traveled to Yosemite back in the day. Everything from how the cavalry traveled overland from the San Francisco Presidio to guard the park to three boys who bicycled from Napa to ten miners who were probably the third group of white men to enter the park.
My favorite was a young female newspaper woman who took the Stage Coach route by my house up over the Chowchilla Mountain to Wawona and then into the park. Her descriptions are funny and scathing. My favorite quote was "We shall long remember the descent of Chowchilla as a needless outrage perpetrated on innocent victims"
A really good look at the early days of travel into the Yosemite Grant.
Cheese and rice did Hank Johnston write a lot of books about Yosemite back in the 1990s. Ho! for Yo-Semite was a typical rallying cry in the late 19thcentury to get people to go to Yosemite. This a collection of 11 contemporaneous articles of how people traveled to Yosemite back in the day. Everything from how the cavalry traveled overland from the San Francisco Presidio to guard the park to three boys who bicycled from Napa to ten miners who were probably the third group of white men to enter the park.
My favorite was a young female newspaper woman who took the Stage Coach route by my house up over the Chowchilla Mountain to Wawona and then into the park. Her descriptions are funny and scathing. My favorite quote was "We shall long remember the descent of Chowchilla as a needless outrage perpetrated on innocent victims"
A really good look at the early days of travel into the Yosemite Grant.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm