Nature's Mountain Mansion: Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite

Nature's Mountain Mansion is the first anthology on Yosemite that focuses exclusively on the nineteenth century, the critical period in which Yosemite was "discovered" by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the country's most visited national parks. While there are volumes that provide readings about Yosemite in the nineteenth century, few provide critical--sometimes even disparaging--eyewitness reflections on the Yosemite experience, and none include excerpts from the government documents that defined the future of the park, such as the Yosemite Valley Grant Act of 1864.

This anthology collects selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents that demonstrate the glory, the brutality, and the controversies surrounding this extraordinary and much-loved landscape. Some selections have not appeared in print since their original publication, while others have not been republished or excerpted for decades.

Author: Gary Noy
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 11/01/2022
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 1.34d
ISBN13: 9781496232519
ISBN10: 1496232518
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT
- Nature | Regional

About the Author
Gary Noy has taught history at Sierra Community College in Rocklin, California, for more than three decades. He is the editor of Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-Century American West (Nebraska, 1999) and author of Hellacious California! Tales of Rascality, Revelry, Dissipation, Depravity, and the Birth of the Golden State, among other books.