The following entries refer particularly to narrative pages. For further references, see under appropriate date in Chronology. _INDEX_ A Abrams, LeRoy, 134 Acknowledgments, ix-xi Adams, James Capen, 127, 134, 180 Adams, Virginia and Ansel, 73, 191 Administration, Yosemite, 146-175 Agua Fria, first Mariposa County seat, 12, 20, 24 Ahwahnee, Indian name for Yosemite Valley, 37. _See also_ Camp Ahwahnee Ahwahnee Hotel, 101, 115-116 Airplane, first in Yosemite Valley, 188 Albright, Horace M., biographical notes, 169-170 All-Year Highway, 86, 169-170, 188-189 _Alta California_, quoted, 26, 28, 38-39; another use, 103 American Association of Museums, x-xi. _See also_ Yosemite Museum American [Planning and] Civic Association, 161 Anderson, George G., 79; Trail of, 109 Arboretum, Wawona, 187 Aurora, mining town, 124, 127 Automobiles in Yosemite, 69 Ayres, Thomas, Yosemite sketches by, 48, 58, 147, 181 B Badè, W. F., writings of, 153-154 Badger Pass, 91, 173, 191, 193 Ball, George A., 162 Barnard, J. K., 98. _See also_ Sentinel Hotel Barrett, Samuel A., 132 Beadle, J. H., quoted, 53-55, 103 Beardsley, Buck, 96 Beardsley and Hite. _See_ Upper Hotel Beatty, M. E., 131, 136, 193 Bennetville. _See_ Tioga Benson, Col. Harry C., 77, 159, 160; quoted, 83 Benton, California, 124 Best, Harry C., 186, 191 Bierstadt, Albert, 181 Big Oak Flat: Trail, 52; Road, 164-170 Big Oak Flat and Yosemite Turnpike Company, 63 Big Tree Room, 58 Big Trees: discovery, 8; Mariposa Grove, 8; Merced Grove, 8, 62; writings about, 133-134; Tuolumne Grove, 184 Big Trees Lodge, 113, 189, 191 Bigelow, Maj. John, 187 Black, A. G., 95, 96 Black Bart. _See_ Highwaymen Black’s Hotel: Bull Creek, 101; Yosemite Valley, 56, 96, 101, 123-128 _passim_ Bloody Canyon, 46, 74, 118, 119 Bodie: boom days of, 64-65, 118, 124; mining district organized, 126; relics, 128 Body, W. S., 125, 127 Boling, Captain John: and Mariposa Battalion, 25, 36, 180; first entrance into Yosemite Valley of, 37; first letter from Yosemite Valley by, 38, 180; quoted, 38-39; second entrance into Yosemite Valley of, 180 Bolles, Ida Savage, 16 Botanical studies in Yosemite, 133-134 Boutwell Dunlap collection, 16 n., 30 Bowditch, Mrs. Ernest W., 48 Boysen, J. T., 69, 193 Brace, Charles Loring, 97, 99; quoted, 97-98, 99-100 Brewer, William H., 71, 78, 129, 130 Brockman, C. Frank, x, 136, 144; quoted on trails, 82 Brooks, Joel H., investigated Savage killing, 30-32 Brower, David R., xi; quoted, 87-91 Brusky, William, 118 Bryant, H. C., 136, 138-143 _passim_; quoted, 140 Bumpus, H. C., 142, 193 Bunnell, L. H.: quoted on Walker, 7; writings of, 14, 16;