One Hundred Years in Yosemite: The Story of a Great Park and Its Friends

Frontispiece: Yosemite Valley
The Story of a Great Park and Its Friends
BY CARL PARCHER RUSSELL CHIEF NATURALIST, UNITED STATES NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
With a Foreword by Newton B. Drury
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley and Los Angeles · 1947
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, ENGLAND
COPYRIGHT, 1932
COPYRIGHT, 1947, BY THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF WASHINGTON BARTLETT LEWIS 1884-1930 AND CHARLES GOFF THOMSON 1883-1937
The National Park Service is primarily a custodian of and trustee for lands—lands with unique and special qualities, so distinctive as to make their care a concern of the entire nation; lands, therefore, held under a distinctive pattern and policy, administered according to the national park concept.