Merced Grove of Big Trees, 8 Merced-Wawona Road, 101 Merriam, C. Hart, 132 Merriam, John C., 142 Merriam, Lawrence C., 171-172, 192 Michael, Charles, 88 Michael, Enid, 134-135, 189 Miller, Adolph C., 161 Miller, Loye H., 138; quoted, 138-140 Mills, Cosie Hutchings (Mrs. Gertrude Hutchings), 59, 60 Mining Districts. _See_ Bodie, Esmeralda, Homer, Lake, Montgomery, Mount Hoffmann, Tioga Mono Diggings, 118 Mono Indians, strife with Yosemites, 46-48 Mono region mining, 117-128 Mono Trail, 46, 74, 118 _Mono Weekly Messenger_, 125 Monoville, 118 Montgomery Mining District, 124 Moore, Edwin, 100 Moore, Lieut. Tredwell: and attack on Yosemite Indians, 46; Mono explorations of, 46, 117 Moran, Thomas, art collection, 191 Motor vehicles. _See_ Automobiles Mountain View House. _See_ Peregoy’s Mountaineering, 26, 78-79, 87-89; National Park Service policy on, 89. _See also_ First mountaineering ascents Mount Dana Summit Mine, 120-121 Mount Hoffmann Mining District, 184 Muir, John: as mountaineer, 78, 79, 88; quoted, 79; as explorer, 84, 182; death, 84, 188; as geologist, 130; writings, 133-134, 155, 183; as teacher of Yosemite values, 138, 152-156; as sheepherder in Yosemite, 152-153; “lumbering operation” of, 153; in the employ of Hutchings, 153-154; quoted on his Yosemite cabin by Badè, 153-154. _See also_ Sierra Club Muir Trail. _See_ John Muir Trail Murphy, John L., 184, 185 Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy, University of California, 135 N Nature guiding, 138-141 Neal, Mr. and Mrs. John H., 94 Nuchu Indian camp, 36, 99 O Oak Cottage, 98 Oastler, Frank R., 141 Olmsted, Frederick Law (elder): as superintendent of Mariposa Estate, 13; as chairman, first Board of Yosemite Commissioners, 13, 149; quoted, 149 Olmsted, Frederick Law (younger): as National Park Service Collaborator, 14; appointed to Yosemite Advisory Board, 14 Orchards in Yosemite Valley: Hutchings’, 98; Lamon’s, 148 Ostrander Lake Ski Hut, 91, 192 Ostrander’s, 51 P Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., 187 Packing (animals), 53, 87 Pardee, Gov. Geo. C., 187 Park Naturalists of Yosemite, 144 Parker, Harry C., 136 Parsons Memorial Lodge, 188 Passes used by Indians, 76 Peregoy, Charles E., 51, 105, 107 Peregoy’s Hotel, 51, 105-106 Photographs, first of Yosemite Valley, 56-57 Pilgrim Society, 126 Pine City, 123 Porter, Mrs. Sarah Seton, 17 Presidents visiting Yosemite: Theodore Roosevelt, 156, 187; Hayes, 184; Franklin D. Roosevelt, 192 Presnall, C. C., 136 Private lands. _See_ Yosemite National Park, private lands