R Radio communications, 191 Railroads: Central Pacific, 63; connections with stage routes, 63; Yosemite Valley, 68, 69-70 Raker, John E., 161-162 Rangers, 158; organization of, 161; club house, 189 Raymond, I. W., and Yosemite Grant, 182 Research Reserves, 190 River Cottage, 98 Road policy: and realignment, 86; obliteration, 86; and mountain wilderness values, 86 Roads. _See_ All-Year Highway, Big Oak Flat, Coulterville, El Portal-Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point, Mariposa-Hite’s Cove, Mariposa-Wawona-Yosemite Valley, Sonora Pass, Tioga, Wawona-Merced Robinson, Charles D., 184 Rock Cottage, 98 Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 162 Rockefeller, Laura Spelman Memorial. _See_ Yosemite Museum Rodgers, Capt. Alexander, 77, 185 Roosevelt, Theodore, and Antiquities Act of 1906, 156 Rosenblatt, Arthur, 57 Rucker, Maj. L. J., 186 Russell, Carl P., 135, 144 Russell, I. C., 130 S Saddle parties, 50-60 _San Francisco Daily Herald_, quoted, 29, 32, 33-34 Savage, James D.: as trader, 14; trading posts, 14, 19, 20-21, 23, 24, 25, 26; role as discoverer of Yosemite Valley, 15; boyhood, 17; marriage, 17, 21; arrival in California, 18; champion of Indians, 18, 29; intimacy with Indians, 18, 21; as white chief of the foothills, 18-35; associated with Rev. James Woods, 19; Bunnell quoted on, 19-20; quoted, 20, 27; trouble with Indians, 21-27; described by old Indian, 25; in command of the Mariposa Battalion, 25, 36, 146; aid to Indian agents, 26; as military leader and trailfinder, 26, 75; quarrel with Harvey, 30-32; death of, 30-35; burial, 34 School, Yosemite Valley public, 183 Second U. S. Infantry. _See_ Lieut. Tredwell Moore Sell, W. M., 187. _See also_ Camp Ahwahnee Sentinel Hotel, 98, 112 _Sequoia gigantea._ _See_ Big Trees Sharsmith, Carl W., 134 Sheepherder Mine. _See_ Tioga Mine Sheepmen, trails used by, 77 Sherman, E. A., editor, _Esmeralda Star_, 126 Shirley, James C., 134 Sierra Club: acknowledgment to, xi; and mapping, 72; and trails, 84, 85-86; outings, 84, 186; purposes, 86, 156; Rock-Climbing Section, 88; lodges, 130, 186, 188; and U. S. Geological Survey, 131; and study of fauna, 135; and John Muir, 156; and creation of Yosemite National Park, 156; and Antiquities Act, 156; and William E. Colby, 156-157; and Yosemite recession, 160, 185; Soda Springs property of, 187 _Sierra Club Bulletin_, xi, 156 Sierra Telegraph Company, 121 Skiing, 90-91, 173, 191, 193 Smedberg, W. R., 159 Smith, C. E., 103 Smith, Jedediah S.: in ranks of “Fur Brigade,” 1; trip to California by, 1, 2;