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Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada (Keystone Western Americana series)

3 reviews
Clarence King

Lippincott, 1963

Bold Tales, Well Told
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada is essential reading for anyone who both loves those mountains and wants to get a glimpse of life there before it reached the level of settlement it has today. Whether or not all the stories here are strictly factual, they are often both gripping and entertaining. Additionally, they bring the reader some sense of what rural central California life was like at ...

Treasury of the Sierra Nevada

1 review
Mark Twain Walt Whitman, David Brower John Muir, ...

Wilderness Press, 1983

A good bood about the written history of the Sierra Nevadas
A good read about the Sierra Nevada Mountain range. The book is a collection of short stories assembled by Mr. Reid that detail various aspects of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I expecially enjoyed the short stories and articles by Dan DeQuille, Bret Harte, and Mark Twain. Mr. Reid preceeds each chapter with an introduction that explains some of the history regarding the author and the ...

Clarence King Memoirs: The Helmet Of Mambrino
Clarence King

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, ...