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Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park. The total height of the three falls is 2,600 feet. The upper fall is about 1,600 feet, and the lower about 400 feet. Mr. Muir was probably the only man who ever looked down into the heart of the fall from the narrow ledge of rocks near the top. From a photograph by Charles S. Olcott.
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Sheep feeding near Alger Lake on Blacktop Mountain. Since the establishment of the Yosemite National Park, the pasturing of sheep has not been allowed within its boundaries and as a result the grasses and wild flowers have recovered very much of their former luxuriance. The flock of sheep here photographed were feeding near Alger Lake on the slope of Blacktop Mountain, at an altitude of about 10,000 feet and just beyond the eastern boundary of the Park. From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason.
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Horseshoe Bend, Merced River.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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View from the second bench at the edge of the main forest belt above Coulterville near Greeley’s Mill.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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View of the camp near the North Fork of the Merced.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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Mountain live oak (Quercus chrysolepis).
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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Sugar pine.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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The movements of a Douglas squirrel along a tree trunk.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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The divide between the Tuolumne and the Merced Rivers below Hazel Green.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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A silver fir, or red fir (Abies magnifica). This tree was found in an extensive forest of red fir above the Middle Fork of King’s River. It was estimated to be about 250 feet high. Mr. Muir, on being shown the photograph, remarked that it was one of the finest and most mature specimens of the red fir that he had ever seen. From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason.
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Pictured left to right are North Dome, Washington Column, and Half Dome (South Dome). The great rock on the right is the South Dome, commonly called the Half-Dome, according to Mr. Muir “the most beautiful and most sublime of all the Yosemite rocks.” The one on the left is the North Dome, while in the center is the Washington Column. From a photograph by Charles S. Olcott.
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Track of singing, dancing grasshopper in the air over North Dome.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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A specimen of Abies magnifica, on Mount Clark, on top of Half Dome (South Dome).
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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The growth of new pine from a branch below a break in a snow-crushed tree.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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View of Dome Creek, Yosemite.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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A view of Cathedral Peak from the Sunrise Trail. This view was taken from a point on the Sunrise Trail just south of the Peak, on a day when the “cloud mountains” so inspiring to Mr. Muir were much in evidence. From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason.
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A pair of junipers in Tenaya Canyon.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park.
From a photograph by Charles S. Olcott.
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The Happy Isles, Yosemite National Park. This is the main stream of the Merced River after passing over the Nevada and Vernal Falls and receiving the Illilouette tributary. From a photograph by Charles S. Olcott.
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Tenaya Lake and Cathedral Peak.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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One of the Tributary Fountains of the Tuolumne Canyon Waters located on the north side of the Hoffman Range.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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Glacier Meadow, on the headwaters of the Tuolumne 9,500 feet above the sea.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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The Three Brothers, Yosemite National Park. The highest rock, called Eagle Point, is 7,900 feet above the sea, and 3,900 feet above the floor of the valley. From a photograph by Charles S. Olcott.
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Mono Lake and Volcanic Cones, looking south.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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The highest Mono Volcanic Cones, near view.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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One of the highest Mount Ritter Fountains.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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Glacier meadow strewn with moraine boulders at 10,000 feet above the sea, near Mount Dana.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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View of the front of Cathedral Peak.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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View of the Upper Tuolumne Valley.
From a sketch made by the author in 1869.
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A historical USGS map of Yosemite National Park showing the topographic and riparian features of the landscape as they were in 1909.
U.S. Geological Survey.