Yosemite and Sequoia: A Century of California National Parks

This collection of essays and photographs, originally published as a special issue of California History, the journal of the California Historical Society, documents the creation and management of California's first three national parks, focusing on the debate over preservation versus development. As the authors of these essays remind us, tourists visited Yosemite long before its establishment as a national park; and the issues of park development so hotly debated today were raised and debated first in Yosemite, nearly a hundred years ago.Orsi, Richard J. is the author of 'Yosemite and Sequoia: A Century of California National Parks' with ISBN 9780520081604 and ISBN 0520081609.