Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents: (From the Broadview Sources Series)

ISBN-13: 9781554814404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Char Miller

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chronology
• Questions to Consider
• Part 1: INDIGENOUS GROUNDS
• Origin Stories
• 1. How the World Grew
• 2. Origin of the Mountains
• 3. The Legend of Tu-Tok-A-Nu’-La
• 4. The Origins of the Present Floor of the Yosemite Valley
• 5. The Legend of Tis-se’-yak
• 6. The Spirits of Po-ho-no
• Expulsion
• 7. Extracts from Governor Peter Burnett, "State of the State Address" (1851)
• 8. Extract from James Mason Hutchings, "The Yo-Ham-i-te Valley," Hutchings’ California Magazine (1856)
• 9. Extract from L. H. Bunnell, "How the Yo-semite Valley was Discovered and Named," Hutchings’ California Magazine (1859)
• 10. Yosemite Indian Petition to the United States (1891)
• 11. Extracts from John Muir, The Mountains of California (1894)
• Part 2: TOURIST SANCTUARY
• Image Gallery: Visitors’ Views
• 12. Extracts from James Mason Hutchings, "The Yo-Ham-i-te Valley," Hutchings’ California Magazine (1856)
• 13. Extracts from the Diary of Sarah Haight, "Wedding Party in Yosemite," (1858)
• 14. The Yosemite Grant Act of 1864
• 15. Extract from Frederick Law Olmsted, Preliminary Report upon the Yosemite and Big Tree Grove (1865)
• 16. Extracts from Alice Ives Van Schaak, A Familiar Letter from a daughter to her mother (1871)
• 17. Extracts from Helen Hunt, Bits of Travel at Home (1878)
• Part 3: BATTLE FOR WILDERNESS
• 18. Charles Frederick Hoffmann, "Notes on Hetch-Hetchy Valley," Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (1868)
• 19. John Muir, "The Hetch Hetchy Valley," Boston Weekly Transcript (1873)
• 20. An act to set apart certain tracts of land in the State of California as forest reservations (1890)
• 21. Joint Resolution Accepting the recession by the State of California of the Yosemite Valley Grant and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove (1906)
• 22. Letter from John Muir to Theodore Roosevelt, September 9, 1907
• 23. Letter of Theodore Roosevelt to John Muir, September 16, 1907
• 24. Petition of Marsden Manson, City Engineer of San Francisco, on Behalf of the City and County of San Francisco, May 7, 1908
• 25. Decision of the Secretary of the Interior, May 11, 1908
• 26. Letter of the American Civic Association to the Committee on Public Lands, December 15, 1908
• 27. Letter of the Appalachian Mountain Club to the Committee on Public Lands, December 15, 1908
• 28. Telegram from the Sierra Club to the Committee on Public Lands, December 16, 1908
• Image Gallery: 1910 Resolutions on Hetch Hetchy
• i. Resolution of the Graffort Club of Portsmouth NH
• ii. Resolution from the Hypatia Women’s Club of San Francisco
• 29. John Muir, "Dam Hetch Hetchy" from The Yosemite (1912)
• 30. AN ACT Granting to the city and county of San Francisco certain rights of way in, over and through certain public lands (1913)
• 31. Extracts of the Statement of Mr. W.C. Lehane, of California, to the Committee on Public Lands (1913)
• 32. Extracts of Gifford Pinchot’s Testimony before the Committee on Public Lands, (1913)
• 33. Extracts of the Statement of Hon. Herbert Parsons, of New York City, before the Committee on Public Lands (1913)
• 34. Extracts of James Phelan’s testimony before the Committee on Public Lands (1913)
• 35. Extracts of the Statement of Mt. Richard B. Waltrous, of Washington D.C., Secretary of the American Civic Association, to the Committee on Public Lands (1913)
• 36. Extracts of the Statement of Mr. John R. Freeman, of Boston, Mass., Engineer in Charge of the Hetch Hetchy Project (1913)
• 37. Extracts of the Statement of Hon. William Kent, Representative in Congress from California, to the Committee on Public Lands (1913)
• Image Gallery: 1913 Petitions
• i. HR 7207: A Bill granting the city of San Francisco…
• ii. Protest Against the Diversion of Water from Lands Requiring Irrigation
• iii. Petition from the Widows and Orphans and Mutual Aid Associations of San Francisco
• iv. Petition from the Society for the Preservation of National Parks Against Granting San Francisco the Hetch Hetchy Valley
• v. Resolution from the Augusta, Hallowell, and Gardner Central Labor Union of Maine in Favor of the Raker Bill
• vi. Petition from the University of Oklahoma Professors
• vii. Telegram from the SF Council of Knights of Columbus 615
• viii. Resolution of the Massachusetts State Federation of Women’s Clubs
• ix. San Francisco Examiner Petition to the Senate of the United States
• Part 4: HETCH HETCHY RESTORED?
• 38. Carl Pope, "Undamming Hetch Hetchy," Sierra Magazine (1987)
• 39. "Interview with Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel," Environs (1988)
• 40. Extracts from the State of California Hetch Hetchy Restoration Study (2006)
• 41. San Francisco Proposition F Ballot Measure (2012)
• 42. Tim Redmond, "Not until we have clean energy," Earth Island Journal (2012)
• 43. Spreck Rosekrans, "Hetch Hetchy: A century of occupation in Yosemite National Park," Maven’s Notebook (2013)
• Glossary of Key Figures and Terms
• Select Bibliography