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349, +4 ad pp. 7 plates, 13 illustrations in text, 1 map. (8vo) original brown cloth titled and decorated in black and gilt. Second Edition.

Mostly a reprint from the stereotype plates prepared for the 1880 edition with minor changes in introduction and text expanded following page 317 to include information on glaciers and the big trees. This printing has the printer's slug on copyright page reading "J. L. Regan & Co., Printers and Binders, 226 & 228 Lake Street, Chicago." It is probable that the Walker party saw Yosemite Valley from its rim in 1833, and more than one prospector or hunter (including William Penn Abrams and U.N. Reamer in October 1849) viewed it prior to March 27, 1851 when the Mariposa Battalion pursued Indians into the valley. The narrative of Bunnell and the diaries of Robert Eccleston are the principal sources of information on the Mariposa Indian War, which indirectly brought the valley to the attention of the general public. See Francis P. Farquhar, Yosemite, the Big Trees and the High Sierra: A Selective Bibliography (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1948), title 15.