For copies of this poster see Dr. Tyler Nordgren at Space Art Travel Bureau.com.

Oh, Ranger! a book about the national parks.

by Horace M. Albright and Frank J. Taylor.

This is the classic, 1928 edition, Here is a nostalgic look at America's early national parks and their ranger service by their director of that time. Author Albright was  also a long-time superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Originally published in 1928 by Stanford University Press. See more + sample pages.

IBN-10: 0-89646-068-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-068-3. Order #: VIST0068 paper$7.95.

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 Acadia National Park (ME)                                               

Mount Desert, 1872: an early history of the Maine island that is now Acadia National Park.

by George Ward Nichols.

Here is a sail around and a tour over Mount Desert--the famous island off the coast of Maine. There are fogs, and stormy seas, lighthouses, and legends. The report shows how soon and how enthusiastically appreciation for Nature developed in America, for the 1872 year of publication is the same year that Yellowstone National Park--called the world's first--was established. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-029-0. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-029-4. Order #: VIST0029paper$4.95.

 

 

 

The Light-houses of the United States in 1874.

by Charles Nordhoff & Gustav Kobe.

Showing lighthouses and keepers on all U.S. coasts--Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf, and Great Lakes, with three extra articles by Gustav Kobbe: "Life in a Lighthouse", and if that isn't lonely enough there comes "Life on the South Shoals Lightship". Last is "Heroism in the Lighthouse Service".

Here are four articles on that romantic historic aspect of the maritime industry--the lighthouse. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-086-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-086-7. Order #: VIST0086 paper$7.95.

 

Signals of the Sea and Heroes of the Surf

by Arthur Hewitt and John R. Spears.

The epic story of America's light-houses and life-savers, written at their heyday. Two of the most romantic traditions of the sea are here combined to form the content of this book--light-houses and life-savers. Stories of the work of the keepers and savers span. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-088-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-1. Order #: VIST0088 paper$5.95.

 

 

The United States Life-saving Service--1880: predecessor to today's Coast Guard.

by J. H. Merryman.

Story of chain of life-saving stations that once lined all U.S. coasts--Atlantic, Gulf, Great Lakes, Pacific--with rescue dramas, apparatus and technique used by heroic federal surfmen.
The U.S. Life-saving Service was at its heyday when this material was written in 1880. Shipping was a busy industry among the seaport cities, yet navigation was often unsure. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-071-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-3. Order #: VIST0071 paper$7.95.

 

 

Cabrillo (CA), Cape Hatteras (NC), Cape Lookout (NC)                                              

The Light-houses of the United States in 1874.

by Charles Nordhoff & Gustav Kobe.

Showing lighthouses and keepers on all U.S. coasts--Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf, and Great Lakes, with three extra articles by Gustav Kobbe: "Life in a Lighthouse", and if that isn't lonely enough there comes "Life on the South Shoals Lightship". Last is "Heroism in the Lighthouse Service".

Here are four articles on that romantic historic aspect of the maritime industry--the lighthouse. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-086-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-086-7. Order #: VIST0086 paper$7.95.

 

Signals of the Sea and Heroes of the Surf

by Arthur Hewitt and John R. Spears.

The epic story of America's light-houses and life-savers, written at their heyday. Two of the most romantic traditions of the sea are here combined to form the content of this book--light-houses and life-savers. Stories of the work of the keepers and savers span. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-088-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-1. Order #: VIST0088 paper$5.95.

 

 

The United States Life-saving Service--1880: predecessor to today's Coast Guard.

by J. H. Merryman.

Story of chain of life-saving stations that once lined all U.S. coasts--Atlantic, Gulf, Great Lakes, Pacific--with rescue dramas, apparatus and technique used by heroic federal surfmen.
The U.S. Life-saving Service was at its heyday when this material was written in 1880. Shipping was a busy industry among the seaport cities, yet navigation was often unsure. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-071-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-3. Order #: VIST0071 paper$7.95.

 

 

Canyon de Chelly (AZ)                                                                              

Rock Art of the American Indian.

by Campbell Grant.

This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3.Order #: VIST0084 paper$16.95.

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  Canyonlands National Park                                                                               

The Cañons of the Colorado--the 1869 discovery voyage down the Colorado River.

by Major John Wesley Powell.

From Wyoming, into Colorado, through Utah, to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and to Nevada--this was the journey of the "Colorado River Exploring Expedition". See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-059-2. SBN-13: 978-0-89646-059-1. Order #: VIST0059 paper$6.95.

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Rock Art of the American Indian.

by Campbell Grant.

This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3.Order #: VIST0084 paper$16.95.

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 Chaco Canyon (NM)                                                                 

Rock Art of the American Indian.

by Campbell Grant.

This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3.Order #: VIST0084 paper$16.95.

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 City of Refuge (HI)                                                

Contributions of a Venerable Native to the Ancient History of the Hawaiian Islands.

by M. Jules Remy.

Account of interview with old Hawaiian in 1853 gives insights into traditions and cultures of native island people. Subjects range from history, government and society to the nobility, common people, and the ancient chants. Foreword is by park superintendent at Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park (once known as City of Refuge). Reproduced photos and drawings. 40 pages.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN -10: 0-89646-056-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-056-0. Order #: VIST0056 paper$4.95

 

 

Hawaii-Nei, 1873.

by Charles Nordhoff.

Hawaii-Nei is the name for the collective kingdom of Hawaii, and these two articles from over a century ago tell of the islands' history and people, rains, and volcanic eruptions. The islands were still relatively native and natural during our author's visit, and he tells of their traits and early religion.  Foreword is by Russell Apple, Pacific Historian of the National Park Service. Engravings show the land, the seascapes, homes, public buildings, and the people--eating poi, dancing the hula, surfing. 40 pages. See more + sample pages.

ISBN -10: 0-89646-030-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-030-0. Order #: VIST0030 paper$4.95.

 

Mark Twain in Hawaii--the noted humorist's 1866 visit.

by Mark Twain.

The noted humorist's account of his 1866 trip to Hawaii, made at a time when the islands were still more for the natives than for the tourists. Yet Twain visits many of the sites and tries his hand at many of the activities that modern tourists do--he surfs, goes for an ocean canoe ride, sees the City of Refuge, visits the volcano, studies the nobility, and watches the hula. Twain the dreamer admired Hawaii, land of dreams, and he even writes seriously of the scenery, on occasion. Illustrations are from the original edition of the work, with others added from a similar time period from other sources. 96 pages.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-070-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-070-6. Order #: VIST0070 paper$7.95.

 

 

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  Death Valley National Park (CA)                                                               

The Wild Sheep. by John Muir.

Here the early naturalist-writer glorifies the mountain sheep, or bighorn, of the Sierra Nevada. In Muir's time (1881 is the date of this writing), sheep were still to be seen on his High Sierra rambles. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-017-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-017-1. Order #: VIST0017 paper$4.95.

 

 

The Hummingbird of the California Waterfalls. by John Muir.

Reprinted from 1878. This has been called "the finest bird biography ever written". Muir's "waterfall hummingbird" is the water-ouzel, of course, now also called the dipper. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-019-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-019-5. Order #: VIST0019 paper$4.95.

 

 

  Dinosaur  (CO/UT)                                                                              

The Cañons of the Colorado-- the 1869 discovery voyage down the Colorado River. by Major John Wesley Powell.
From Wyoming, into Colorado, through Utah, to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and to Nevada--this was the journey of the "Colorado River Exploring Expedition". See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-059-2. SBN-13: 978-0-89646-059-1. Order #: VIST0059 paper$6.95.

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 Fire Island National Seashore (NY)                                                        

 

Signals of the Sea and Heroes of the Surf

by Arthur Hewitt and John R. Spears.

The epic story of America's light-houses and life-savers, written at their heyday. Two of the most romantic traditions of the sea are here combined to form the content of this book--light-houses and life-savers. Stories of the work of the keepers and savers span. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-088-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-1. Order #: VIST0088 paper$5.95.

 

 

The United States Life-saving Service--1880: predecessor to today's Coast Guard.

by J. H. Merryman.

Story of chain of life-saving stations that once lined all U.S. coasts--Atlantic, Gulf, Great Lakes, Pacific--with rescue dramas, apparatus and technique used by heroic federal surfmen.
The U.S. Life-saving Service was at its heyday when this material was written in 1880. Shipping was a busy industry among the seaport cities, yet navigation was often unsure. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-071-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-3. Order #: VIST0071 paper$7.95.

19th Century Whaling Tales. by James Temple Brown and Gustav Kobbe.
Pursuing the world's largest mammal in boats powered only by sail and oar.
Perhaps the sea's highest adventure was the whaling chase, as great or greater than exploring uncharted waters. Why else would men risk their lives and their families' securities? The money could be good, too, and for some, there was the chance at freedom, for the industry was mainly blind as to skin color at a time when opportunities for non-whites were scarce. The whaling industry flourished for two centuries, and its traditions are recounted in seaport museums and the stories here:
"Stray Leaves from a Whaleman's Log" is reprinted from Century Magazine, 1893. It tells about chasing of whales on a cruise from the standpoint of the individual whaleman.
"The Perils and Romance of Whaling" came out in Century Magazine in 1890. It gives more of the detail of the subject and also includes anecdotes of episodes from the early days.
A final section "Cutting in and Trying Out" explains the butchering process. Period illustrations. 48 pages. See more + sample pages.
Inventory = in stock in quantity. ISBN-10: 0-89646-089-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-089-8.Order #: VIST0089 paper$5.95.
Parks and museums now tell of this period of history, for instance at New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park in Massachusetts and Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut.

The Light-houses of the United States in 1874. by Charles Nordhoff & Gustav Kobe.

Showing lighthouses and keepers on all U.S. coasts--Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf, and Great Lakes, with three extra articles by Gustav Kobbe: "Life in a Lighthouse", and if that isn't lonely enough there comes "Life on the South Shoals Lightship". Last is "Heroism in the Lighthouse Service".

Here are four articles on that romantic historic aspect of the maritime industry--the lighthouse. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-086-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-086-7. Order #: VIST0086 paper$7.95.

 

 

 Fort Laramie (WY)                                                          

Across the Plains in the Donner Party: a personal narrative of the overland trip to California, 1846-47. by Virginia Reed Murphy.

Virginia was 12 years old when her family left Springfield, Illinois to trek across the plains to California, their intended new home, along with 25 fellow emigrants. See more + sample pages.

ISBN: 978-0-89646-099-7. Order #: VIST0099 paper$8.95.

 

 

Diary of Patrick Breen--one of the Donner Party. by Frederick J. Teggart.

Diary kept by 1846-47 Donner Party emigrant who survived over-winter entrapment in Sierra snow near Truckee, California. See more + sample pages.

ISBN: 978-0-89646-102-4. Order #: VIST0102 paper$4.95.

 

The Buffalo--1898. by Colonel Henry Inman with "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

America nearly lost its buffalo (or bison, to be more accurate), but in an early conservation effort a small herd was retained. This has now grown into a sizable population, which recall to us the vast herds that once roamed and even blackened the plains. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-028-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-028-7.  Order #: VIST0028 paper$4.95.

 

  Gateway National Recreation Area (NY/NJ)                                                    

19th Century Whaling Tales. by James Temple Brown and Gustav Kobbe.

Pursuing the world's largest mammal in boats powered only by sail and oar. Perhaps the sea's highest adventure was the whaling chase, as great or greater than exploring uncharted waters.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-089-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-089-8. Order #: VIST0089 paper$5.95.

 

 

 

The Light-houses of the United States in 1874. by Charles Nordhoff & Gustav Kobe.

Showing lighthouses and keepers on all U.S. coasts--Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf, and Great Lakes, with three extra articles by Gustav Kobbe: "Life in a Lighthouse", and if that isn't lonely enough there comes "Life on the South Shoals Lightship". Last is "Heroism in the Lighthouse Service".

Here are four articles on that romantic historic aspect of the maritime industry--the lighthouse. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-086-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-086-7. Order #: VIST0086 paper$7.95.

 

Signals of the Sea and Heroes of the Surf. by Arthur Hewitt and John R. Spears.

The epic story of America's light-houses and life-savers, written at their heyday. Two of the most romantic traditions of the sea are here combined to form the content of this book--light-houses and life-savers. Stories of the work of the keepers and savers span. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-088-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-1. Order #: VIST0088 paper$5.95.

 

 

The United States Life-saving Service--1880: predecessor to today's Coast Guard. by J. H. Merryman.

Story of chain of life-saving stations that once lined all U.S. coasts--Atlantic, Gulf, Great Lakes, Pacific--with rescue dramas, apparatus and technique used by heroic federal surfmen.

The U.S. Life-saving Service was at its heyday when this material was written in 1880. Shipping was a busy industry among the seaport cities, yet navigation was often unsure. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-071-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-3. Order #: VIST0071 paper$76.95.

 Sandy Hook--in 1879.  by George Houghton.

Story of the sometimes-spit/sometimes-island sandland off New York City.

Sandy Hook is a narrow spit of sand jutting out from the New Jersey shore into New York Harbor. This report tells of the lighthouse there, of the offshore lightship, of its life-saving service station, and of the pilots who boarded ships coming in from the ocean to guide them to their dockings in New York harbor. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-047-9. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-047-8. Order #: VIST0047 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

   Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (AZ/UT)                                             

The Cañons of the Colorado--the 1869 discovery voyage down the Colorado River. by Major John Wesley Powell.
From Wyoming, into Colorado, through Utah, to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and to Nevada--this was the journey of the "Colorado River Exploring Expedition". See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-059-2. SBN-13: 978-0-89646-059-1. Order #: VIST0059 paper$6.95.

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 Golden Gate National Recreation Area (CA)                                                                       

Pioneer Days in San Francisco. by John Williamson Palmer.

The City's history from July 8, 1846, when the American flag first waved over the city (then called Yerba Buena), continuing through the early days of Mormon settlement, the total disruption during the Gold Rush of 1849.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-015-0. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-015-7. Order #: VIST0015 paper$5.95.

 

 

 

 

 

 Glacier Bay National Parki (AK)                                                           

The Discovery of Glacier Bay (1879). by John Muir, its discoverer.

Adventures in a truly Alaskan Wild with ice floes, bergs, mountain peaks, Indians, canoe travel. Spending several "icy summers" in Alaska, Muir earned the name "Ice Chief",  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-045-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-045-4. Order #: VIST0045 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Golden Spike National Historic Site (UT)                                                

 

 

Across the Plains in the Donner Party: a personal narrative of the overland trip to California, 1846-47.

by Virginia Reed Murphy.

Virginia was 12 years old when her family left Springfield, Illinois to trek across the plains to California, their intended new home, along with 25 fellow emigrants. Along the way, her grandmother died, her pony had to be left, her family lost their oxen and had to abandon a wagon with their possessions, her stepfather killed a man and was banished from the train, and then she and her group were trapped in snows at the eastern foot of the Sierra Nevada crest at and near what is now Donner Lake and Truckee, California. As a result, 13 of those who started with her in Springfield, and 29 more who joined her along the way, never did cross those mountains. Here is the little girl's story, written by her later as an adult, now a part of the American epic of winning the West.

Reprinted from Century Magazine with illustrations added from Frederic Remington and others. 64 pages.  See sample pages, illustrations.

ISBN: 978-0-89646-099-7. Order #: VIST0099 paper$8.95.

 

C. P. R. R.--the Central Pacific Railroad.

by Charles Nordhoff.

This is the epic story of building the line across the Sierra Nevada of California, the deserts of Nevada, and the salt flats of Utah to meet the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Point on May 10, 1869. Rail fans and history buffs have access today to historic parks and museums at the ends of this line in Sacramento and Promontory Point and along the way at the Donner Lake State Park. There is also an article explaining train travel by passengers at this early date.

Reprinted from Marvels of the New West, 1882. Period engravings. 48 pages.  See sample pages, illustrations.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-097-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-097-3.Order #: VIST0097 paper$7.95.

Reprinted from Marvels of the C\New West, 1882. This is the epic story of building the line across the Sierra Nevada of California, the deserts of Nevada, and the salt flats of Utah to meet the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory Point on May 10, 1869. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-090-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-0970-3. Order #: VIST0097 paper$6.95.

 

 

 

 

  Grand Canyon National Park (AZ)                                                                                 

The Cañons of the Colorado--the 1869 discovery voyage down the Colorado River. by Major John Wesley Powell.
From Wyoming, into Colorado, through Utah, to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and to Nevada--this was the journey of the "Colorado River Exploring Expedition". See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-059-2. SBN-13: 978-0-89646-059-1. Order #: VIST0059 paper$6.95.

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The Wild Sheep. by John Muir.

Here the early naturalist-writer glorifies the mountain sheep, or bighorn, of the Sierra Nevada. In Muir's time (1881 is the date of this writing), sheep were still to be seen on his High Sierra rambles. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-017-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-017-1. Order #: VIST0017 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

  Haleakala National Park  (HI)                                                                             

Contributions of a Venerable Native to the Ancient History of the Hawaiian Islands. by M. Jules Remy.

Account of interview with old Hawaiian in 1853 gives insights into traditions and cultures of native island people. Subjects range from history, government and society to the nobility, common people, and the ancient chants. Foreword is by park superintendent at Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park (once known as City of Refuge). Reproduced photos and drawings. 40 pages.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN -10: 0-89646-056-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-056-0. Order #: VIST0056 paper$4.95

 

 

 

Hawaii-Nei, 1873. by Charles Nordhoff.

Hawaii-Nei is the name for the collective kingdom of Hawaii, and these two articles from over a century ago tell of the islands' history and people, rains, and volcanic eruptions. The islands were still relatively native and natural during our author's visit, and he tells of their traits and early religion.  Foreword is by Russell Apple, Pacific Historian of the National Park Service. Engravings show the land, the seascapes, homes, public buildings, and the people--eating poi, dancing the hula, surfing. 40 pages. See more + sample pages.

ISBN -10: 0-89646-030-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-030-0. Order #: VIST0030 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

Mark Twain in Hawaii--the noted humorist's 1866 visit. by Mark Twain.

The noted humorist's account of his 1866 trip to Hawaii, made at a time when the islands were still more for the natives than for the tourists. Yet Twain visits many of the sites and tries his hand at many of the activities that modern tourists do--he surfs, goes for an ocean canoe ride, sees the City of Refuge, visits the volcano, studies the nobility, and watches the hula. Twain the dreamer admired Hawaii, land of dreams, and he even writes seriously of the scenery, on occasion. Illustrations are from the original edition of the work, with others added from a similar time period from other sources. 96 pages.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-070-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-070-6. Reprinted 10/99. Order #: VIST0070 paper$7.95.

 

 

 

  Hawaii Volcanoes National Park   (HI)                                                                            

Contributions of a Venerable Native to the Ancient History of the Hawaiian Islands. by M. Jules Remy.

Account of interview with old Hawaiian in 1853 gives insights into traditions and cultures of native island people. Subjects range from history, government and society to the nobility, common people, and the ancient chants. Foreword is by park superintendent at Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park (once known as City of Refuge). Reproduced photos and drawings. 40 pages.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN -10: 0-89646-056-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-056-0. Order #: VIST0056 paper$4.95

 

 

 

Hawaii-Nei, 1873. by Charles Nordhoff.

Hawaii-Nei is the name for the collective kingdom of Hawaii, and these two articles from over a century ago tell of the islands' history and people, rains, and volcanic eruptions. The islands were still relatively native and natural during our author's visit, and he tells of their traits and early religion.  Foreword is by Russell Apple, Pacific Historian of the National Park Service. Engravings show the land, the seascapes, homes, public buildings, and the people--eating poi, dancing the hula, surfing. 40 pages. See more + sample pages.

ISBN -10: 0-89646-030-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-030-0. Order #: VIST0030 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

 

Mark Twain in Hawaii--the noted humorist's 1866 visit. by Mark Twain.

The noted humorist's account of his 1866 trip to Hawaii, made at a time when the islands were still more for the natives than for the tourists. Yet Twain visits many of the sites and tries his hand at many of the activities that modern tourists do--he surfs, goes for an ocean canoe ride, sees the City of Refuge, visits the volcano, studies the nobility, and watches the hula. Twain the dreamer admired Hawaii, land of dreams, and he even writes seriously of the scenery, on occasion. Illustrations are from the original edition of the work, with others added from a similar time period from other sources. 96 pages.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-070-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-070-6. Reprinted 10/99. Order #: VIST0070 paper$7.95.

 

 

 

 Hot Springs National Park  (AR)                                                                      
Cutter's Official Guide to Hot Springs, Arkansas. by John Milton Cutter.

This 1917 guide told tourists, pleasure seekers, and medical patients about this early national park and city and how to use and enjoy both. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-057-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-057-7. Order #: VIST0057 paper$7.95.

 John Muir National Historic Site (CA)                                                                           

In the Heart of the California Alps: a near view of the High Sierra in 1872...  account of the first ascent of Mount Ritter.

by John Muir.

portrait of John Muir, conservationist, naturalist, writer, mountaineer

Account of the first ascent of Mount Ritter, October, 1872. Record of one of Muir's finest mountain rambles and of the first ascent, a solo one, of this mountain in the Mammoth Lakes country of the eastern Sierra Nevada. Combines natural observations with the adventures and philosophical musings of a nearly fatal climb. Made from a base camp with three artists who were left sketching on the Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne River late in the season, while Muir ventured into the Minaret country, in 1890 a part of Yosemite National Park but now in the Ansel Adams Wilderness of Inyo National Forest, near Mammoth, California. Three illustrations of Mount Ritter and its region by one of these artists, William Keith, are included. (Keith became an eminent landscape painter, producing many scenes of the West including the Sierra, Yosemite Valley, Mount Shasta, the San Francisco Bay region, and more.) Drawings by Muir are also included, as well as other period illustrations. Foreword by former Yosemite Chief Park Naturalist William R Jones. 24 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-026-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-026-3. Order #: VIST0026 paper$4.95.

KEITH AND MUIR:

William Keith (from St Mary's College of California website):
"A 19th-century leading artist and visionary in San Francisco, William Keith (1838-1911) is most known for his impact on preserving and sharing the California landscape through paint and brush. Saint Mary's College Museum of Art cares for the most comprehensive body of work created by this California Master Landscape Painter.

Keith arrived at Muir's cabin in Yosemite Valley with a letter of introduction in 1872, and a lifelong friendship quickly developed. The two Scottish immigrants took camping trips together in the High Sierra, saw each other when Muir was in San Francisco and helped inspire each other's work. The idea for the Sierra Club was first formed in Keith's studio during conversations with Muir, Dr. Joseph LeConte, the first president of the University of California, and Warren Olney, a prominent San Francisco attorney. Muir's concern with scientific accuracy reinforced Keith's early training as a wood engraver in encouraging him to reproduce the exact topography and details of a landscape early in his career. Keith had also already expressed a preference by 1870 to "study altogether from Nature," reflecting in part the admonishments of the influential writer John Ruskin."

The Yellowstone National Park. by John Muir.

Here is what may well be Muir's most literary piece of nature writing, inspired not by the Sierra Nevada he was more familiar with, but by the wonders of the Yellowstone region. The text tells of the park's geysers, See more + sample pages.  

ISBN 978-0-89646-101-7. Order #: VIST0101 paper$8.95.

 

 

 

 

 

The Hummingbird of the California Waterfalls. by John Muir.

Reprinted from 1878. This has been called "the finest bird biography ever written". Muir's "waterfall hummingbird" is the water-ouzel, of course, now also called the dipper. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-019-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-019-5. Order #: VIST0019 paper$4.95.

 

 

In the Heart of the California Alps: a near view of the High Sierra in 1872. by John Muir.
Account of the ascent of Mount Ritter, October, 1872. Record of one of Muir's finest mountain rambles and of the first ascent, a solo one, of this mountain in the Mammoth Lakes country. See description, illustrations.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-026-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-026-3. Order #: VIST0026 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Rival of the Yosemite: the Cañon of the South Fork of King's River, California. by John Muir.

As they had at Yosemite, Muir and his editor launched a campaign to get Kings Canyon set aside as a national park (some wanted to call it John Muir National Park), advising the law-givers to "make haste before it is too late". This writing was to be the stimulus. See description, sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-010-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-010-2.  Order #: VIST0010 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

Our Yosemite National Park: among its forests and wild gardens, animals and birds, fountains and streams. by John Muir.

At the turn of the century, John Muir described Yosemite National Park to readers of The Atlantic Monthly in the articles here reprinted. Just a decade before he had been so involved with the park idea that he became known as the "father of Yosemite National Park". See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-061-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-061-4. Order #: VIST0061 paper$7.95.

 

 

 

 

The Wild Sheep. by John Muir.

Here the early naturalist-writer glorifies the mountain sheep, or bighorn, of the Sierra Nevada. In Muir's time (1881 is the date of this writing), sheep were still to be seen on his High Sierra rambles. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-017-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-017-1. Order #: VIST0017 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

 

 Joshua Tree National Park (CA)                                                 

The Wild Sheep. by John Muir.

Here the early naturalist-writer glorifies the mountain sheep, or bighorn, of the Sierra Nevada. In Muir's time (1881 is the date of this writing), sheep were still to be seen on his High Sierra rambles. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-017-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-017-1. Order #: VIST0017 paper$4.95.

 

 

The Hummingbird of the California Waterfalls. by John Muir.

Reprinted from 1878. This has been called "the finest bird biography ever written". Muir's "waterfall hummingbird" is the water-ouzel, of course, now also called the dipper. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-019-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-019-5. Order #: VIST0019 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

  Lake Mead National Recreation Area (AZ)                                              

The Cañons of the Colorado--the 1869 discovery voyage down the Colorado River. by Major John Wesley Powell.
From Wyoming, into Colorado, through Utah, to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and to Nevada--this was the journey of the "Colorado River Exploring Expedition". See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-059-2. SBN-13: 978-0-89646-059-1. Order #: VIST0059 paper$6.95.

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The Wild Sheep. by John Muir.

Here the early naturalist-writer glorifies the mountain sheep, or bighorn, of the Sierra Nevada. In Muir's time (1881 is the date of this writing), sheep were still to be seen on his High Sierra rambles. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-017-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-017-1. Order #: VIST0017 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

 Mesa Verde (CO)                                                                                          

ROCK ART OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN by Campbell Grant.
This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists. With photographs and drawings on virtually every page, this book presents the rock artists through the work they left--illustrating their extraordinarily diverse techniques, styles, and subjects. Meanings of the designs are discussed, and their roles in hunting or puberty rites interpreted. Major rock art sites are located, and methods of recording, preserving, and dating them are indicated. Author Grant has done rock art books on the Chumash Indians, the Coso Range, and Canyon de Chelly. 192 pages + 16 page color insert. Large-format. See sample pages, illustrations.
Inventory = in stock in quantity. ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3. Order #: VIST0084 paper$16.95.

 

The Southern Ute Indians of Early Colorado. by Verner Z. Reed.

An early account of these inhabitants of southwestern Colorado, living in one of the most magnificent spots of the American continent.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-067-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-067-6. Order #: VIST0067 paper$4.95.

 

 

 New Bedford Whaling (MA)                                                       

19th Century Whaling Tales. by James Temple Brown and Gustav Kobbe.

Pursuing the world's largest mammal in boats powered only by sail and oar. Perhaps the sea's highest adventure was the whaling chase, as great or greater than exploring uncharted waters.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-089-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-089-8. Order #: VIST0089 paper$5.95.

 

 

 

 

 

Signals of the Sea and Heroes of the Surf. by Arthur Hewitt and John R. Spears.

The epic story of America's light-houses and life-savers, written at their heyday.

Two of the most romantic traditions of the sea are here combined to form the content of this book--light-houses and life-savers. Stories of the work of the keepers and savers span the range from daytime monotony, and even loneliness, between storms, to the thrill of daring sea rescues See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-088-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-088-1. Order #: VIST0088 paper$5.95.

 

 

 

 

 

 Painted Desert (AZ), Petroglyph (NM)                                              

Rock Art of the American Indian. by Campbell Grant.

This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3.Order #: VIST0084 paper$16.95.

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 Petrified Forest National Park (AZ)                                             

Rock Art of the American Indian. by Campbell Grant.

This book surveys the myriad rock paintings and carvings--numbering possibly some 15,000 sites--pecked into and painted onto boulders and rock surfaces throughout North America by its aboriginal artists.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-084-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-084-3.Order #: VIST0084 paper$16.95.

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 Pinnacles National Park  (CA)                                                                                                                                

The Hummingbird of the California Waterfalls. by John Muir.

Reprinted from 1878. This has been called "the finest bird biography ever written". Muir's "waterfall hummingbird" is the water-ouzel, of course, now also called the dipper. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-019-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-019-5. Order #: VIST0019 paper$4.95.

 

 

 Point Reyes (CA)                                                                                          

The Light-houses of the United States in 1874. by Charles Nordhoff & Gustav Kobe.

Showing lighthouses and keepers on all U.S. coasts--Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf, and Great Lakes, with three extra articles by Gustav Kobbe: "Life in a Lighthouse", and if that isn't lonely enough there comes "Life on the South Shoals Lightship". Last is "Heroism in the Lighthouse Service".

Here are four articles on that romantic historic aspect of the maritime industry--the lighthouse. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-086-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-086-7. Order #: VIST0086 paper$7.95.

 

Signals of the Sea and Heroes of the Surf. by Arthur Hewitt and John R. Spears.

The epic story of America's light-houses and life-savers, written at their heyday. Two of the most romantic traditions of the sea are here combined to form the content of this book--light-houses and life-savers. Stories of the work of the keepers and savers span. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-088-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-1. Order #: VIST0088 paper$5.95.

 

 

The United States Life-saving Service--1880: predecessor to today's Coast Guard. by J. H. Merryman.

Story of chain of life-saving stations that once lined all U.S. coasts--Atlantic, Gulf, Great Lakes, Pacific--with rescue dramas, apparatus and technique used by heroic federal surfmen.

The U.S. Life-saving Service was at its heyday when this material was written in 1880. Shipping was a busy industry among the seaport cities, yet navigation was often unsure. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-071-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-3. Order #: VIST0071 paper$7.95.

 

 

 Rocky Mountain National Park (CO)                                                  

The Wild Sheep. by John Muir.

Here the early naturalist-writer glorifies the mountain sheep, or bighorn, of the Sierra Nevada. In Muir's time (1881 is the date of this writing), sheep were still to be seen on his High Sierra rambles. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-017-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-017-1. Order #: VIST0017 paper$4.95.

 

 

 Sagamore Hill (NY)                                                

Ranch Life in the Far West. by Theodore Roosevelt.

After being president, Roosevelt stated "I would not have been president had it not been for my experience in North Dakota" And so here are his experiences, as he wrote about them.  See sample pages,

ISBN-10: 0-89646-034-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-034-8. Order #: VIST0034 paper$12.95.

 

 

 

 

Scotts Bluff (NE)                                                              

Across the Plains in the Donner Party: a personal narrative of the overland trip to California, 1846-47. by Virginia Reed Murphy.

Virginia was 12 years old when her family left Springfield, Illinois to trek across the plains to California, their intended new home, along with 25 fellow emigrants. See more + sample pages.

ISBN: 978-0-89646-099-7. Order #: VIST0099 paper$8.95.

 

 

Diary of Patrick Breen--one of the Donner Party. by Frederick J. Teggart.

Diary kept by 1846-47 Donner Party emigrant who survived over-winter entrapment in Sierra snow near Truckee, California. See more + sample pages.

ISBN: 978-0-89646-102-4. Order #: VIST0102 paper$4.95.

 

 

 Sequoia & Kings Canyon  (CA)                                                  

The Hummingbird of the California Waterfalls. by John Muir.

Reprinted from 1878. This has been called "the finest bird biography ever written". Muir's "waterfall hummingbird" is the water-ouzel, of course, now also called the dipper. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-019-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-019-5. Order #: VIST0019 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

Mountaineering in the Kings River Country, 1864. by Clarence King of the California Geological Survey.

This early ascent of Mount Tyndall at the head of King's River (the river's name is not related to author King) is now classic Western Americana literature. It is mountaineering drama to the extreme, written even when the foothills of the Sierra Nevada were remote enough, let alone peaks at the range crest,  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-042-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-042-3. Order #: VIST0042 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

 

A Rival of the Yosemite: the ca�on of the South Fork of King's River, California. by John Muir.

As they had at Yosemite, Muir and his editor launched a campaign to get Kings Canyon set aside as a national park (some wanted to call it John Muir National Park), advising the law-givers to "make haste before it is too late". This writing was to be the stimulus. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-010-X. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-010-2. Order #: VIST0010 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

The Wild Sheep. by John Muir.

Here the early naturalist-writer glorifies the mountain sheep, or bighorn, of the Sierra Nevada. In Muir's time (1881 is the date of this writing), sheep were still to be seen on his High Sierra rambles. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-017-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-017-1. Order #: VIST0017 paper$4.95.

 

 

 Tall Grass Prairie National Preserve  (KS)                                               

The Buffalo--1898. by Colonel Henry Inman with "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

America nearly lost its buffalo (or bison, to be more accurate), but in an early conservation effort a small herd was retained. This has now grown into a sizable population, which recall to us the vast herds that once roamed and even blackened the plains. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-028-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-028-7.  Order #: VIST0028 paper$4.95.

 

 Theodore Roosevelt National Park (ND)                                                       

Ranch Life in the Far West. by Theodore Roosevelt.

After being president, Roosevelt stated "I would not have been president had it not been for my experience in North Dakota" And so here are his experiences, as he wrote about them.  See sample pages,

ISBN-10: 0-89646-034-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-034-8. Order #: VIST0034 paper$12.95.

 

 

 

 

 

 Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks (WY, MT, ID)                              

The Ascent of Mount Hayden, Grand Teton, 1872: a new chapter of western discovery. by Nathaniel Pitt "(National Park") Langford.

Trials and triumphs of what may have been the first party to climb the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, July 29, 1872. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-066-5. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-066-9. Order Order #: VIST0066 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

 

 

The Yellowstone National Park. by John Muir.

Here is what may well be Muir's most literary piece of nature writing, inspired not by the Sierra Nevada he was more familiar with, but by the wonders of the Yellowstone region.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN 978-0-89646-101-7. Order Order #: VIST0101 paper$8.95.

 

 

 

The Buffalo--1898. by Colonel Henry Inman with "Buffalo Bill" Cody.

America nearly lost its buffalo (or bison, to be more accurate), but in an early conservation effort a small herd was retained. This has now grown into a sizable population, which recall to us the vast herds that once roamed and even blackened the plains. See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-028-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-028-7.  Order #: VIST0028 paper$4.95.

 

 

 Yosemite National Park (CA)                                                                              

In the Heart of the California Alps: a near view of the High Sierra in 1872...  account of the first ascent of Mount Ritter.

by John Muir.

portrait of John Muir, conservationist, naturalist, writer, mountaineer

Account of the first ascent of Mount Ritter, October, 1872. Record of one of Muir's finest mountain rambles and of the first ascent, a solo one, of this mountain in the Mammoth Lakes country of the eastern Sierra Nevada. Combines natural observations with the adventures and philosophical musings of a nearly fatal climb. Made from a base camp with three artists who were left sketching on the Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne River late in the season, while Muir ventured into the Minaret country, in 1890 a part of Yosemite National Park but now in the Ansel Adams Wilderness of Inyo National Forest, near Mammoth, California. Three illustrations of Mount Ritter and its region by one of these artists, William Keith, are included. (Keith became an eminent landscape painter, producing many scenes of the West including the Sierra, Yosemite Valley, Mount Shasta, the San Francisco Bay region, and more.) Drawings by Muir are also included, as well as other period illustrations. Foreword by former Yosemite Chief Park Naturalist William R Jones. 24 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-026-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-026-3. Order #: VIST0026 paper$4.95.

KEITH AND MUIR:

William Keith (from St Mary's College of California website):
"A 19th-century leading artist and visionary in San Francisco, William Keith (1838-1911) is most known for his impact on preserving and sharing the California landscape through paint and brush. Saint Mary's College Museum of Art cares for the most comprehensive body of work created by this California Master Landscape Painter.

Keith arrived at Muir's cabin in Yosemite Valley with a letter of introduction in 1872, and a lifelong friendship quickly developed. The two Scottish immigrants took camping trips together in the High Sierra, saw each other when Muir was in San Francisco and helped inspire each other's work. The idea for the Sierra Club was first formed in Keith's studio during conversations with Muir, Dr. Joseph LeConte, the first president of the University of California, and Warren Olney, a prominent San Francisco attorney. Muir's concern with scientific accuracy reinforced Keith's early training as a wood engraver in encouraging him to reproduce the exact topography and details of a landscape early in his career. Keith had also already expressed a preference by 1870 to "study altogether from Nature," reflecting in part the admonishments of the influential writer John Ruskin."

Our Yosemite National Park: among its forests and wild gardens, animals and birds, fountains and streams. by John Muir.

At the turn of the century, John Muir described Yosemite National Park to readers of The Atlantic Monthly in the articles here reprinted.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-061-4. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-061-4. Order #: VIST0061 paper$7.95.

 

 

 

Discovery of the Yosemite in 1851--and the Indian war which led to that event. by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, M.D., one of the Discoverers, of the Mariposa Battalion.

First published in 1880, this is the primary account of how Yosemite Valley came to be "discovered" by other than Native Americans.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-021-5. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-021-8. VIST0021 paper$7.95.

 

 

 

The Proposed Yosemite National Park--treasures & features, 1890. by John Muir.

Perhaps the most important writing Muir ever did, for here he proposed a national park, which was soon established. He and his editor had hatched the scheme around a Tuolumne Meadows campfire that became park of the new park, and so Muir became known as the "Father of Yosemite National Park." See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-003-7. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-003-4. Order #: VIST0003 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

The Yosemite in Winter: an 1892 account. by James M. Carson, with extracts from John Muir's writings.

An appreciation of Yosemite Valley's winter character and an early history of the first winter residents, with plenty of quoted passages from John Muir, who also was a year-round valley resident in the early days. Reports of floods, in which trees were swept over the waterfalls See more + sample pages.

ISBN-10: 0-89646-053-3. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-053-9. Order #: VIST0053 paper$4.95.

 

 

 

Yosemite: the story behind the scenery. by William R. Jones, former Chief Naturalist of Yosemite National Park.

Presents all aspects of the Yosemite story--geologic origin of the principal features, Indian history and "discovery" by early explorers plus role in conservation history.  See more + sample pages.

ISBN: 978-0-88714-234-5. Order #: KCPU0738 paper$11.95.

 

 

 

 

Domes, Cliffs, Waterfalls: a brief geology of Yosemite Valley. by William R. Jones, former Chief Naturalist of Yosemite National Park.

Yosemite has the roundest domes, the sheerest cliffs, the highest waterfalls. Why?   See sample pages (coming).

Order #: HEYD1858 paper$16.95. Out of print; a few copies available.

 

 

 

 

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