Identifier: overrangetogolde00wood (find matches)
Title: Over the range to the Golden Gate : a complete tourist's guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the great North-west
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Wood, Stanley
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Guidebooks Pacific States -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Chicago : R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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0 miles, in analmost easterly direction, from San Francisco, andnearly midway of the state, between the northernand southern boundaries; it was for many years therendezvous, or permanent abiding place, of hostileIndians, who had a legend for every point of in-terest, whether of water or rock. The place wasfirst seen in 1850 by a number of white men, whohad formed themselves into a military company topunish or compel peace with bands of murderous Indians; it was takenpossession of in March, 1851, by an expedition under the command of CaptainBoling, which invaded the aboriginal stronghold, killed several of its defenders,and either stampeded or compelled peace with the rest. The valley is some15 miles long, by about one-third of that distance in width, and is undoubtedlythe most wonderful combination of chasm and dome, cliff and canon, mountainand valley, river and waterfall, cataract and streamlet, winter and summer, 233 YOSEMITE. A Valley of Wonders. The Climax of Grandeur and Beauty.
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FALLS OF THE YGSEMITE. TO THE GOLDEN GATE. 235 and sunshine and shadow, to be seen in the world—especially within a radiu9of eight or ten miles. Among the most noted and majestic elevations, whichrise right up vertically, many of these seeming like hewn rock, are: ElCapitan, 3,300 feet above the floor of the valley; Cathedral Rock, 2,660 feetabove the valley; Three Brothers, 3,830 feet; The Sentinel, 3,043 feet, withcascades of 3,000 feet fall, Washington Column, 1,875 feet; Dome and RoyalArches, 3,568 feet, down which descends a cataract of 1,000 feet; The Half Dome,4,737 feet; Clouds Rest, 6,150 feet; Glacier Point, 3,200; Sentinel Dome, 4,150;Eagle Point, 4,200, and many others of greater or less altitudes. The most notedwaterfalls are the Yosemite, which first displays an unbroken descent 1,500 feet,then 600 feet of partly hidden cataracts, and a final leap of 400 feet—2,526 in all;Bridal Veil, 900 feet; Vernal Falls, 400, and Nevada Falls, 600 feet. There aremany other points

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