[2]Foremost among the references is L. H. Bunnell’s _Discovery of the Yosemite_, published in 1880. Bunnell was closely associated with Savage during three of his most active years in the Mariposa region; his account is intimate and rich in detail and unprejudiced. We catch an interesting glimpse of Savage, the ’forty-niner, through the pages also of George H. Tinkham’s _California Men and Events_. Something additional of his gold mining and trading is gleaned from the writings of W. E. Wilde and S. P. Elias. Elliott’s _History of Fresno County_ contributes a number of authenticated incidents, and J. M. Hutchings reveals matters regarding influences that undoubtedly figured in his tragic death. United States Senate documents record his official dealings with the Indians; L. A. Winchell gives some information on his enemies; contemporary newspapers describe his meeting with death; and finally _Depositions from the Papers of Geo. W. Wright, One of Two First Congressmen from California_, provides papers pertaining to the Court of Claims, 1858, in which appears sworn testimony regarding the shooting of Savage. This last paper formed a part of the Boutwell Dunlap Collection. [3]Bell (1927) records that the photographer, Vance, made pictures of Savage and his Indians on this occasion. [4]A muster roll of the Mariposa Battalion appears in Elliott, 1881, and in Russell, 1931, pp. 186-191. [5]The Walker party, 1833, may have been the first to see the Merced Grove. See p. 8. See also Wegner, J. H., _Yosemite Nature Notes_ (1930), p. 67. [6]See Fannie Crippen Jones, “The Barnards in Yosemite,” MS in Yosemite Museum. [7]See Harwell, C. A., _Yosemite Nature Notes_, 1933, Vol. XII, No. 1. [8]See Taylor, Mrs. H. J., _Yosemite Nature Notes_ (1929). [9]Beatty, M. E. “History of the Firefall,” _Yosemite Nature Notes_ (1934), pp. 41-43; and Yosemite Park and Curry Co., 1940, _The Firefall, Explanation and History_, Yosemite National Park, pp. 1-5. [10]Camps at these spots first were established in the days of the Desmond Park Service Company, 1916-1918. [11]A road of sorts crossed Sonora Pass prior to this construction work. Hittell (1911, p. 218) tells of Grizzly Adams’s trip through the pass with a wagon in the Spring of 1854. [12]See Farquhar, 1926, pp. 15-23. [13]Joseph LeConte became a faculty member at the University of California in 1869 and made his first trip to Yosemite in 1870. Of that experience, he wrote, “This trip was almost an era in my life.” For the rest of his life, he devoted much time to Sierra studies. He died suddenly in the valley, July 6, 1901. The LeConte Memorial Lodge in Yosemite Valley, built by the Sierra Club in 1903, commemorates his work (see _Sierra Club Bulletin_, 1904, 1905; Farquhar, 1926, pp. 30-32).