Enchanted Childhoods

Growing Up In Yosemite, 1864-1945

by Shirley Sargent

A unique history of a great national park and firsthand accounts of those who were privileged
to grow up in the enchanting world of Yosemite.

The book covers the last third of the 19th century, two world wars, and the Great Depression.

• The first white child born in Yosemite Valley.
• Yosemite school days.
• A Wawona boyhood.
• Visits of Teddy Roosevelt and FDR.
• In the footsteps of John Muir.
• The great flood of 1937.

Trade paperback, 128 pages,
8.5 x 11, two maps, 75 photographs—
many previously unpublished—index.
ISBN: 1-878345-23-0.  $14.95