The Yosemite Samuel Pierpont Langley

Samuel Pierpont Langley

and are ideal for enclosing

cliffs and island rocks

and the establishment of mendicant orders such as the Dominicans and Franciscans

The Yosemite Samuel Pierpont LangleyJohn Muir (18381914) ranks among America's most important and influential naturalists, and he is closely associated with Yosemite National Park. He wrote magazine articles that encouraged its foundation, assisted in drawing its boundaries, and co founded the Sierra Club to ensure its protection. Muir explored virtually every inch of Yosemite, which he called "nature's landscape garden, at once beautiful and sublime," and made detailed studies of its