Ebook {Epub PDF} Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada by Clarence King

 · Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. by. Clarence King, James M. Shebl (Introduction) · Rating details · 83 ratings · 19 reviews. This is a reprint of the edition of Clarence King’s classic work, which some have described as the first real literature of the Sierra. It is adventure writing at its best/5. Clarence King preceded Muir into High Sierras as a geologist, surveyor and cartographer. He ended up writing great tales of local characters, about his horse, barely surviving a blizzard on the rim on the Yosemite, mountain climbing and escaping bandits. It is a /5(34). Clarence King ( - ), Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (New York: C. Scribner’s sons, ). xi p., 1 l., pages. 20 cm. Library of Congress Call Number FS5 K The text for Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada was acquired from the The Library of Congress under the Evolution of the Conservation Movement section of the American Memory online exhibit.

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"Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada" is a memoir by Clarence King of his adventures and work with the California Geological Survey. King later led a major survey along the 40th Parallel in the American West and then was appointed the first director of the new U.S. Geological Survey. Clarence King ( - ), Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (New York: C. Scribner’s sons, ). xi p., 1 l., pages. 20 cm. Library of Congress Call Number FS5 K The text for Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada was acquired from the The Library of Congress under the Evolution of the Conservation Movement section of the American Memory online exhibit. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada by Clarence King IX MERCED RAMBLINGS Delightful oaks cast protecting shadows over our camp on the 1st of June, Just beyond a little cook-fire where Hoover was preparing his mind and pan for an omelet stood Mrs. Fremont’s Mariposa cottage, with doors and windows wide open, still keeping up its air of hospitable invitation, though now deserted and fallen into decay.