BEFORE MAN, THERE WAS A PLACE OF BREATHTAKING BEAUTY. A LAND FOREVER WILD, FOREVER FREE. The Indians called it Ahwahnee. We know it as . . .
YOSEMITE . . . a timeless land of vast, unspoiled riches . . . where ancient tribes walked the sacred ground in peace and harmony.
YOSEMITE . . . a paradise on earth that lured settlers like Joseph Walker to cross the towering Sierra Nevadas and brave the perils of a great unexplored wilderness in search of fame and fortune.
YOSEMITE . . . a coveted prize for those who would plunder its rich resources, it would take visionaries like John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt to protect this pristine land and preserve it as a sanctuary for generations of Americans to come.
Painted on an authentic, larger-than-life canvas, filled with the men and women who made history, here is the epic story as spectacular in scope and stirringly beautiful as Yosemite itself. Multiple award-winning author Gary McCarthy has researched and written this magnificent novel about one of the most beautiful places in the world and of the gentle Ahwahneeche people, who called their paradise . . . Ahwahnee.
BEFORE MAN, THERE WAS A PLACE OF BREATHTAKING BEAUTY. A LAND FOREVER WILD, FOREVER FREE. The Indians called it Ahwahnee. We know it as . . .
YOSEMITE . . . a timeless land of vast, unspoiled riches . . . where ancient tribes walked the sacred ground in peace and harmony.
YOSEMITE . . . a paradise on earth that lured settlers like Joseph Walker to cross the towering Sierra Nevadas and brave the perils of a great unexplored wilderness in search of fame and fortune.
YOSEMITE . . . a coveted prize for those who would plunder its rich resources, it would take visionaries like John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt to protect this pristine land and preserve it as a sanctuary for generations of Americans to come.
Painted on an authentic, larger-than-life canvas, filled with the men and women who made history, here is the epic story as spectacular in scope and stirringly beautiful as Yosemite itself. Multiple award-winning author Gary McCarthy has researched and written this magnificent novel about one of the most beautiful places in the world and of the gentle Ahwahneeche people, who called their paradise . . . Ahwahnee.