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In the Heart of the Sierras. The Yo Semite Valley both Historical and Descriptive: and Scenes by the Way. Big Tree Groves... Author: Hutchings, James Mason Place Published: Yo Semite Valley / Oakland, California Publisher: Old Cabin / Pacific Press Date Published: 1886 Description: xii, 13-496 pp. Illustrated with "photo-typo" plates by Britton & Rey (including frontispiece "In the Heart of the Sierras"), wood-engravings, folding map. 21.5x15 cm (8½x6"), pictorial olive cloth, rebacked with original spine strip laid down. Second printing. With plate of a snow plant printed in red. Includes plates called for in second printing by Curry & Kruska; lacks plate "In the Heart of the Sierras" opposite title (as expected), and "Indian store-houses for acorns" opposite p.424. Hutchings, a pioneer of the tourist industry in Yosemite and one of the first to visit there in winter, was Guardian to the Valley & the Mariposa Big Tree Grove from 1880-1884. According to Farquhar, In the Heart of the Sierras was Hutchings' crowning publishing achievement and "...contains a great deal more... than an account of Hutchings' personal experiences; it covers more fully than any other work of its day every aspect of Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees that could be considered of general interest to visitors." Cowan p.299; Currey & Kruska 175; Farquhar 18d. Condition: Light rubbing to binding, mild toning and occasional spotting, annotations to list of plates; ownership marks to front flyleaf and rear pastedown; very good. Item#: 356117 Headline: Hutchings In the Heart of the Sierras, 1886 2nd printing