02 Yosemite

Guy McClellan is an historian currently writing about Yosemite National Park as it grew in the 20th century. We discuss his work in progress and how it is informed by his experiences working as a Yosemite park ranger. Listeners can visit his personal website here: www.guymcclellan.net
Mr. McClellan also provided a list of recommended background reading to accompany this podcast, so here it is in full:
David Louter, Windshield Wilderness: Cars, Roads, and Nature in Washington’s National Parks (University of Washington Press, 2010).
Mark David Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Paul. Sutter, Driven Wild: How the Fight against Automobiles Launched the Modern Wilderness Movement (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002).
Jen A. Huntley, The Making of Yosemite: James Mason Hutchings and the Origin of America’s Most Popular Park (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011).
Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873, Reprint edition (Yale University Press, 2017).
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** At 51:30 I refer to Highway 17 as following the path of El Camino Real. This is wrong, so we're sorry.