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Shutterstock Yosemite Valley The Mariposa Battalion was a group of 200 men formed in February 1851. California created this militia to remove Native Americans...
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Shutterstock Yosemite Valley The Mariposa Battalion was a group of 200 men formed in February 1851. California created this militia to remove Native Americans...
Wikimedia Commons/Pierce, C.C. , 1861-1946 The Yosemite Indian Village For nearly 4,000 years, Native Americans lived in Yosemite Valley before anyone tried to remove...
Shutterstock Yosemite Valley (California) John Muir arrived in Yosemite Valley in 1868 expecting to stay just one summer. Instead, he spent years studying every...
Shutterstock Hetch Hetchy Valley (Yosemite) John Muir called Hetch Hetchy Valley “Yosemite’s twin.” Then San Francisco showed up with dynamite and concrete mixers. What...
Public Domain (NPS) John Muir, the Naturalist Explorer In 1868, a scraggly Scottish wanderer named John Muir stumbled into Yosemite Valley for the first...
Shutterstock Castle Crags State Park, California Granite spires shoot up 6,000 feet into the California sky at Castle Crags, where rock climbers, hikers, and...
Shutterstock Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley Before it held San Francisco’s water, Hetch Hetchy was John Muir’s paradise. Today, this part of Yosemite still shows...
Shutterstock Curry Village, Yosemite At the heart of Yosemite Valley sits Curry Village, a historic camp spot that’s been housing adventurers since 1899. With...
Shutterstock The Ahwahnee Hotel, California Every national park lodge has a story, but the Ahwahnee’s reads like a Hollywood script. FDR slept here. So...
Shutterstock Misty Fjords National Monument, Alaska Just 22 miles from Ketchikan, this place will remind you just how untamed Alaska is. Misty Fjords serves...