Background
Sargent was born in Pasadena, California. Her father was a surveyor who helped rebuild the Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park, starting in 1936.
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(Theodore S. Solomons was a charter member of both the Sie...)
Theodore S. Solomons was a charter member of both the Sierra Club and the American Alpine Club. He knew John Muir, Will Colby, Walter Starr, and Francis Farquhar. In the 1890s he explored the Sierra from Yosemite to Kings Canyon-and discovered the route that became the northern part of the John Muir Trail. Pioneer explorer of the Sierra summits, seeker of adventure and fortune throughout his 77 years, writer of fact and fiction from Nome to Hollywood, Shirley Sargent has given us his rambunctious life in bright colors.
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(Galen Clark (March 28, 1814 - March 24, 1910) is known as...)
Galen Clark (March 28, 1814 - March 24, 1910) is known as the first European American to discover the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoia trees, and is notable for his role in gaining legislation to protect it and the Yosemite area, and for 24 years serving as Guardian of Yosemite National Park.
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(Yosemite National Park provides the setting for this dram...)
Yosemite National Park provides the setting for this dramatic story of 11-year-old Jan Kern, whose hot temper and rebellion at being a girl bring her rejection from the other girls and probation at school. Aided by her family, teachers, and friends, she matures, wins respect, and learns to like herself the way she is.
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(Yosemite National Park, created in 1890, was initially pa...)
Yosemite National Park, created in 1890, was initially patrolled by the U.S. Cavalry. The first civilian rangers were appointed in 1897. They learned to cope with the wildlife, autos, patrols, searches and rescues, law violators, and natural disasters. This is the story of their lives: what they did and how they did it, often told in their own words in logbooks, diaries, and personal recollections.
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(They are all here, from 1856, when the first rude hotel w...)
They are all here, from 1856, when the first rude hotel was built in Yosemite Valley, to the year 2000: Hutchings House, Leidig's, La Casa Nevada, the Stoneman House, Camp Curry, the Mountain House, the Ahwahnee, and many more. Included among the notables are Hutchings, James McCauley, Desmond, J. J. Cook, the Washburn brothers, and the Currys. A new, revised, and updated edition.
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(Yosemite National Park provides the setting for this dram...)
Yosemite National Park provides the setting for this dramatic story of 11-year-old Jan Kern, whose hot temper and rebellion at being a girl bring her rejection from the other girls and probation at school. Aided by her family, teachers, and friends, she matures, wins respect, and learns to like herself the way she is.
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Sargent was born in Pasadena, California. Her father was a surveyor who helped rebuild the Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park, starting in 1936.
So she had the good fortune of spending her childhood as a self-described “tomboy” in Yosemite. A rare crippling disease, dystonia musculorum deformans, kept her to a wheelchair from age 14, but that didn’t stop her. After writing Wawona’s Yesterdays, she went on to write several other Yosemite History books, focusing on stories about people—making them come alive.
Her most authoritative book is Galen Clark: Yosemite Guardian.
Shirley self-published most of her books, with printer and historian Hank Johnson, under the name Flying Spur Press, and later under her own imprint Ponderosa Press. Other popular books of hers include Pioneers in Petticoats, John Muir in Yosemite National Park, Yosemite & Its Innkeepers, and Yosemite Chapel 1879-1989.
In 1961 she bought and built on Theodore Solomons" homesite in Foresta, California, which had only a fireplace surviving from a 1936 fire. She called her home Flying Spur, but it burned in the 1990 Yosemite A-Rock Fire, which also destroyed her historical papers.
She died at her home there.
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