One Hundred Years in Yosemite: The Story of a Great Park and Its FriendsRussell, Carl Parcher
History
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
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FOOTNOTES
[1]The first legislature of the state appointed a committee to report on
the derivation and definition of the names of the several counties
of California. The report is dated April 16, 1850, and from it is
quoted the following:
“In the month of June, 1806 (in one of their yearly excursions to
the valley of the rushes—Valle de los Tulares—with a view to hunt
elks), a party of Californians pitched their tents on a stream at
the foot of the Sierra Nevada, and whilst there, myriads of
butterflies, of the most gorgeous and variegated colors, clustered
on the surrounding trees, attracted their attention, from which
circumstance they gave the stream the appellation of Mariposa. Hence
Mariposa River, from which the county (also heavily laden with the
precious metal) derives its poetical name.”
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