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A facsimile edition of W. W. Elliott's A Guide to the Grand and Sublime Scenery of the Sierra Nevada in the Region about Mount Whitney, the book includes a digitized version of this extremely rare pamphlet which was the first published guidebook to the southern Sierra Nevada in California. James B. Snyder, retired Yosemite Park historian, has written an introduction with information about Elliott, J. W. A. Wright, William B. Wallace, F. H. Wales, Gustav Eisen and Frank Dusy. Snyder has also provided an appendix which meticulously collates marginal notes from a copy of the pamphlet annotated by Joseph N. LeConte, accounts for the authenticity of the illustrations and corrects factual errors in the text.
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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.