[4]A muster roll of the Mariposa Battalion appears in Elliott, 1881, and in Russell, 1931, pp. 186-191.
[5]The Walker party, 1833, may have been the first to see the Merced Grove. See [p. 8]. See also Wegner, J. H., Yosemite Nature Notes (1930), p. 67.
[6]See Fannie Crippen Jones, “The Barnards in Yosemite,” MS in Yosemite Museum.
[7]See Harwell, C. A., Yosemite Nature Notes, 1933, Vol. XII, No. 1.
[8]See Taylor, Mrs. H. J., Yosemite Nature Notes (1929).
[9]Beatty, M. E. “History of the Firefall,” Yosemite Nature Notes (1934), pp. 41-43; and Yosemite Park and Curry Co., 1940, The Firefall, Explanation and History, Yosemite National Park, pp. 1-5.
[10]Camps at these spots first were established in the days of the Desmond Park Service Company, 1916-1918.
[11]A road of sorts crossed Sonora Pass prior to this construction work. Hittell (1911, p. 218) tells of Grizzly Adams’s trip through the pass with a wagon in the Spring of 1854.
[12]See Farquhar, 1926, pp. 15-23.
[13]Joseph LeConte became a faculty member at the University of California in 1869 and made his first trip to Yosemite in 1870. Of that experience, he wrote, “This trip was almost an era in my life.” For the rest of his life, he devoted much time to Sierra studies. He died suddenly in the valley, July 6, 1901. The LeConte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite Valley, built by the Sierra Club in 1903, commemorates his work (see Sierra Club Bulletin, 1904, 1905; Farquhar, 1926, pp. 30-32).