Author: Peter Browning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944220238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is the third edition of the book Place Names of the Sierra Nevada, first published in 1986. In this book are the place names of the Sierra Nevada from the Lake Tahoe basin south to Walker Pass. Not included are place names within Yosemite National Park, with the exception of the names for the features on the park's boundary with the adjacent national forest. All other Yosemite names are in the book Yosemite Place Names. The origin of the names within the Lake Tahoe Basin are in the book Tahoe Place Names. Both those books are also published by Great West Books. Altitudes of most peaks and lakes are given, and the name of the topographical map and the feature's location on that map are also provided. The names of the current 7.5' maps are referenced to their positions on the former 15' map series. There is an extensive bibliography. New in this edition are two indexes: one is of those who named features, and the other of those whose names appear in the text of various entries
Place Names of the Sierra Nevada
Author: Peter Browning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Over the years, the High Sierra has attracted a diverse group of travelers and residents who have explored its rivers, valleys, mountain peaks, lakes and passes. These names are clues to the colorful and unusual aspects of the area's past, and the people and events that shaped it.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Over the years, the High Sierra has attracted a diverse group of travelers and residents who have explored its rivers, valleys, mountain peaks, lakes and passes. These names are clues to the colorful and unusual aspects of the area's past, and the people and events that shaped it.
Sierra Nevada Place Names
Author: Peter Browning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944220238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is the third edition of the book Place Names of the Sierra Nevada, first published in 1986. In this book are the place names of the Sierra Nevada from the Lake Tahoe basin south to Walker Pass. Not included are place names within Yosemite National Park, with the exception of the names for the features on the park's boundary with the adjacent national forest. All other Yosemite names are in the book Yosemite Place Names. The origin of the names within the Lake Tahoe Basin are in the book Tahoe Place Names. Both those books are also published by Great West Books. Altitudes of most peaks and lakes are given, and the name of the topographical map and the feature's location on that map are also provided. The names of the current 7.5' maps are referenced to their positions on the former 15' map series. There is an extensive bibliography. New in this edition are two indexes: one is of those who named features, and the other of those whose names appear in the text of various entries
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944220238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This is the third edition of the book Place Names of the Sierra Nevada, first published in 1986. In this book are the place names of the Sierra Nevada from the Lake Tahoe basin south to Walker Pass. Not included are place names within Yosemite National Park, with the exception of the names for the features on the park's boundary with the adjacent national forest. All other Yosemite names are in the book Yosemite Place Names. The origin of the names within the Lake Tahoe Basin are in the book Tahoe Place Names. Both those books are also published by Great West Books. Altitudes of most peaks and lakes are given, and the name of the topographical map and the feature's location on that map are also provided. The names of the current 7.5' maps are referenced to their positions on the former 15' map series. There is an extensive bibliography. New in this edition are two indexes: one is of those who named features, and the other of those whose names appear in the text of various entries
Directory of Southern Nevada Place Names
Author: Walter R. Averett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Sierra Nevada Place Names Guide
Author: Don Denison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
1000 California Place Names
Author: Erwin Gustav Gudde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Nevada Place Names
Author: Helen S. Carlson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Now back in print, Helen S. Carlson's compendium of place-name facts is spiced with folklore, history, and legend. A must for anyone interested in the state and its past.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Now back in print, Helen S. Carlson's compendium of place-name facts is spiced with folklore, history, and legend. A must for anyone interested in the state and its past.
Sierra Nevada Natural History
Author: Robert Leslie Usinger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520012271
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520012271
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Index to the Geographical Names of Nevada
Author: Rogers McVaugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Nevada Place Names
Author: Rufus Wood Leigh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Sierra-Nevada Lakes
Author: George Henry Hinkle
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1839742933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Of the world’s famous mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada is one of the most spectacular in the number and variety of its lakes. From Lassen Peak in the north to Mount Whitney in the south, the crest and Banks of the great barrier are flecked with the blue of thousands of them—there are 429 in Yosemite Park alone, and in a single area of 220 square miles at the southern end of Lake Tahoe there is a galaxy of more than a hundred. These ice-blue pools lie casually in the most unexpected places—in bleak cirques well above timber line, in river bottoms, in densely timbered canyons, and on the summits of boulder-strewed passes. They range in size from navigable bodies of 300 square miles to small glacial ponds of a few acres. Almost every imaginable geologic origin is represented somewhere among them, as well as some unimaginable freaks of contour. As John Muir was probably the first to point out, theirs is the charm of the unpredictable. Around them centers much of the history of California and Nevada, and until now no comprehensive effort has been made by anyone to narrate it. Dr. and Mrs. Hinkle, who are well-nigh ideally equipped to delineate the fascinating history of the Sierra lakes and their near-lying Great Basin neighbors. Both are the descendants of long lines of pioneer forebears. Both were born and grew up in Truckee, the main gateway of the transcontinental route between Nevada and California. Both are inheritors of a great love for the region and of a great mass of family and traditionary lore concerning it. Both are trained in the employment of bibliographical and historical tools for the writing of history. Finally, as husband and wife, they constitute a well-geared, smoothly functioning literary team, each member of which reinforces and supplements the labors and perceptions of the other.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1839742933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Of the world’s famous mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada is one of the most spectacular in the number and variety of its lakes. From Lassen Peak in the north to Mount Whitney in the south, the crest and Banks of the great barrier are flecked with the blue of thousands of them—there are 429 in Yosemite Park alone, and in a single area of 220 square miles at the southern end of Lake Tahoe there is a galaxy of more than a hundred. These ice-blue pools lie casually in the most unexpected places—in bleak cirques well above timber line, in river bottoms, in densely timbered canyons, and on the summits of boulder-strewed passes. They range in size from navigable bodies of 300 square miles to small glacial ponds of a few acres. Almost every imaginable geologic origin is represented somewhere among them, as well as some unimaginable freaks of contour. As John Muir was probably the first to point out, theirs is the charm of the unpredictable. Around them centers much of the history of California and Nevada, and until now no comprehensive effort has been made by anyone to narrate it. Dr. and Mrs. Hinkle, who are well-nigh ideally equipped to delineate the fascinating history of the Sierra lakes and their near-lying Great Basin neighbors. Both are the descendants of long lines of pioneer forebears. Both were born and grew up in Truckee, the main gateway of the transcontinental route between Nevada and California. Both are inheritors of a great love for the region and of a great mass of family and traditionary lore concerning it. Both are trained in the employment of bibliographical and historical tools for the writing of history. Finally, as husband and wife, they constitute a well-geared, smoothly functioning literary team, each member of which reinforces and supplements the labors and perceptions of the other.