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The Yosemite Valley and The Mariposa Big Tree Grove, by Frederick Law Olmsted 1865

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12301
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document
Description
The full transcription of The Yosemite Valley and The Mariposa Big Tree Grove by Frederick Law Olmsted 1865 is included in the National Park Service publication: America's National Park System: The Critical Documents, edited by Lary M. Disaver in 1994. F.L. Olmsted, who had been in California managing the 44,000 acres of the Mariposa Estate was appointed head of the first Yosemite Commission in 1864 and presented his report to the commissioners in August 1865, three months before he left California to return to New York City. The Yosemite Commission was established by the State of Califormia following the Yosemite Act by Congress in 1864 - An Act Authorizing a Grant to the State of California of the "Yo-Semite Valley," and of the land embracing the "Mariposa Big Tree Grove." The report was surpressed by three of his fellow commissioners and was not discovered until 1952 by Laura Wood Roper, who identified that F.L.O.'s letter to the New York Evening Post, June 18, 1868, represented the missing pages 5-14 of the 52-page manuscript.
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NPS-PH
Start date
8/1/1865
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