This location was named by Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, who entered it while part of a battalion chasing Chief Tenaya.
This location was named by Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, who entered it while part of a battalion chasing Chief Tenaya. James Mason Hutchings ran a hotel here, where he employed a Scottish- American who had walked from Indiana to Florida in 1867. The Raker Act authorized the building of a dam in the northern portion of this place at Hetch Hetch Valley. A famous photograph shows Teddy Roosevelt and this park's major spokesman, John Muir, at Glacier Point. This park is where the Half Dome and El Capitan can be found. For 10 points, name this national park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, which covers the eastern portions of Mariposa County in California.
This location was named by Dr. Lafayette Bunnell, who entered it while part of a battalion chasing Chief Tenaya.
Yosemite National Park