One Hundred Years in Yosemite: The Story of a Great Park and Its FriendsRussell, Carl Parcher
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One Hundred Years in Yosemite: The Story of a Great Park and Its Friends
Russell, Carl Parcher
Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- History; Yosemite Valley (Calif.) -- History
1921
First Yosemite Museum installations made. USNPS, 1921, pp. 72, 196, 202;
Yosemite Park Naturalist, July, 1921; Hall, 1930.
1922
Yosemite Educational Department created. USNPS, 1922, pp. 113, 115;
1923, p. 20.
_Yosemite Nature Notes_ first published (mimeographed through 1924, then
printed). YNHA, 1925, p. 1.
1923
Hikers’ camps installed. USNPS, 1923, p. 54; 1924, pp. 37, 109; YNHA,
1923; Tresidder, D. B., p. 80; Adams, 1940, pp. 79-83; Russell,
1925.
Educational Department for all national parks created. Yosemite Park
Naturalist; USNPS, 1923, p. 20; 1925, p. 10; 1926, p. 7; Burns, N.
J., pp. 4-25.
1924
Hoof and mouth disease epidemic in Yosemite deer. USNPS, 1924, pp. 36,
108; 1925, pp. 6, 93; 1926, p. 14.
New administration center and village developed. USNPS, 1924, pp. 37,
108; 1925, p. 87.
1925
Yosemite Park and Curry Co. formed by consolidation of Curry Camping Co.
and Yosemite National Park Co. Tresidder, D. B., p. 37; USNPS,
1925, p. 27.
Yosemite School of Field Natural History organized. USNPS, 1925, pp. 11,
90; YNHA, 1925, pp. 9-10, 16, 66.
Glacier Point branch of Yosemite Museum opened. Yosemite Park
Naturalist, June, 1925, YNHA, 1925, p. 55.
1926
All-year highway dedicated July 31. USNPS, 1926, pp. 30, 102.
Yosemite Museum opened, May 29. USNPS, 1924, pp. 8, 105; 1925, pp. 12,
89; 1926, pp. 31, 99; YNHA, 1924, 1926, p. 95.
1927
Ahwahnee Hotel opened by Yosemite Park and Curry Co. USNPS, 1926, pp.
31, 101.
1928
Board of expert advisors, Frederick Law Olmsted, Duncan McDuffie, and
John P. Buwalda, appointed by authority of Congress to study and
assist in the solution of Yosemite problems. USNPS, 1928, p. 173.
Maria Lebrado, one of the last of the original Yosemite Indians, gives
firsthand account of Yosemite Valley discovery. YNHA, 1928, pp.
41-46; 1929, pp. 69-70, 85-86.
Wildlife research in national parks instituted by George M. Wright, of
Yosemite naturalist organization. YNHA, 1929, p. 66; Russell,
1939, p. 10; Wright, Dixon, and Thompson.
W. B. Lewis transferred to Washington; became Assistant Director,
National Park Service. E. P. Leavitt designated Acting
Superintendent. YNP, 1929.
1929
A hospital, which after the death of Assistant Director Lewis, 1930, was
named the W. B. Lewis Memorial Hospital, was constructed in
Yosemite Valley at cost of $50,000. USNPS, 1929, p. 144.
Col. C. G. Thomson appointed Superintendent. YNP, 1929.
1930
Stephen T. Mather dies, January 22. Story.
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