Hank Johnston has done a terrific job of collecting eleven stories about early Yosemite Valley travel that will take you away to yesteryear. You can almost hear their voices as these Yosemite visitors tell their tales of discovery and adventure in Ho! For Yo-Semite: By Foot, Horseback, Horse-Stage, Horseless Carriage, Bicycle & Steam Locomotive.
First, Johnston chose a great group of stories and then tied them together, adding "the rest of the story" at the end of each chapter with notes and references.
For anyone who's ever wanted to know more about early tourism in and around what is now Yosemite National Park, this is the book to start with.
Ho! For Yo-Semite paints a colorful picture of the first automobile tour of Yosemite and the couple who arrived in their 1900 Locomobile the next year, the Army in the national parks of California, three teenagers who took a trip from Napa to Yosemite by bicycle and seven other adventures into this awe-inspiring landscape.
This is 140 pages straight out of history--stories that remind us of the people who lived and enjoyed the beauty and grandeur of Yosemite as the first in a long unbroken line of visitors that continues to this very day.
Ho! For Yo-Semite: By Foot, Horseback, Horse-Stage, Horseless Carriage, Bicycle & Steam Locomotive
- Author: Hank Johnston
- Paperback: 140 pages
- Publisher: Yosemite Association/Heyday Books (December 1, 2000)
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