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The Discovery of Yosemite 1833
Route of the Walker Expedition Through the Yosemite Region

by Grant Hiskes & John Hiskes

	Map: Walker’s Route Through the Yosemite Region.................	iv
	Prologue..................................................................................	v
One	Introduction.............................................................................	1
	Overview of The Walker Expedition Trek..................................	4
Two	Green River Rendezvous To The Mono Basin............................	5
	Map: Walker’s Route Through The Yosemite Region......................................................................................	14
Three	Earlier Accounts of the Sierra Crossing....................................	15
Four	Mono Basin to Tenaya Lake.....................................................	19
Five	Tenaya Lake to Anderson Flat.................................................	27
Six	Anderson Flat to the Pacific.....................................................	37
Seven	California and the Return........................................................	41
Eight	The California Trek Revisited...................................................	47
Nine	Retrospective..........................................................................	49
	Notes......................................................................................	69
	Bibliography............................................................................	77
	Topo Maps of Walker's Trek Through Yosemite.......................	83
	Topo Maps M1 - M18...............................................................	85