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Pioneer Yosemite History Center Online Tour

Questions for the Future

Issues such as preservation versus use, overcrowding, automobile traffic, and private land ownership in the park confounded the pioneers. Solutions to some issues elude us today. What is the future of Yosemite National Park? What role will you play in its preservation?

References and Further Information

• National Park Service. Exhibit signs at Yosemite Pioneer History Center. n. d. This was a major source for this online exhibit.
• National Park Service, The Pioneer History Center. (PDF, 2006) Leaflet available at entrance to Yosemite Pioneer History Center. This was a major source for this online exhibit.
• Wawona’s Yesterdays (1961) by Shirley Sargent Contains several reminisces of people and places around early Wawona. See particularly the chapter on the Pioneer Yosemite History Center.
• The National Park Service’s Environmental Living Program (ELP) allows schoolchildren (grades 4 and 5) assume the roles of historical people in the 19th and early 20th century. Teacher training is required and the visiting group bear all costs.
  • “Young Pioneers in Action” from Movin’ On newsletter (June 1991) describes one such schoolgroup
• “Living History Fun for Everyone” from Movin’ On newsletter (July 1991) describes the now-defunct living history program.
• “A Walk Through Time,” (PDF) Yosemite Guide, 29:2, cover and p. 1 (Summer 2000) by Jeff Lahr. Article on Yosemite Pioneer History Center.
• Shadow Soldier online exhibit about African-American soldiers (“Buffalo Soldier”) who, with other U.S. Cavalry, protected Yosemite National Park from 1891 to 1914, before the establishment of the National Park Service.
• “Whatever happened to Doug Hubbard?” (PDF) Yosemite 65:2 p. 8 (Spring 2003) by Allan Shields. Douglass H. Hubbard is responsible for the creation of the Pioneer Yosemite History Center.
• “Restoring a Bridge to the Past” (PDF) by Jeff Lahr Yosemite 66:4 pp. 3-5 (Fall 2004). Details the covered bridge history and the 1955 and 2003 restorations.
• Robert J. Szabo, “The Photography of Time: Following in the Footsteps of Carleton Watkins,” Yosemite 65:3 (Summer 2003), pp. 4-7. History or early wet plate photography in Yosemite and recreation of the wet plate collodion process at Pioneer Yosemite History Center.
• Yosemite: The Park and its Resources (A History of the Discovery, Management, and Physical Development of Yosemite National Park, California) (NPS, 1987) Historic resource study produced to provide historic background information for park officials. The Pioneer Yosemite History Center is mentioned in volume 3. Volumes 1 and 2 volumes mention some individual historical structures in the center in the context of their original location (usually the Old Upper Yosemite Village in Yosemite Valley). Some information in the study is outdated, such as the origin of the word Yosemite, and first European discovers of Yosemite (1845, not 1833).
• Shirley Sargent “A Decade of Uneasy Peace,” Protecting Paradise (Ponderosa Press, 1998). Chapter discusses the 1950s in Yosemite, including creation of the Yosemite Pioneer History Center.
• Carl P. Russell, “Stagecoach Days,” One Hundred Years in Yosemite (1947) discusses stages and mud wagons.
• Huell Howser, California’s Gold: Wawona #114 (2004). Episode includes Pioneer History Center. PBS TV series available on DVD.

Acronyms

• ELP - Environmental Living Program allows schoolchildren assume the roles of historical people
• NPS - National Park Service
• YNP - Yosemite National Park
• YRL - Yosemite Research Library, located in the now-closed Yosemite Museum in Yosemite Village

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