Examines the geology and natural history of the highest regions of California's Sierra Nevada range, and looks at the records of early explorations of the peaks. Includes maps, photographs, and geologic guides.
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Pilot Peter DeLeo describes his ordeal after his plane crashed in the Sierra Nevadas in late November 1994 and he embarked on a two-week hike through the mountains, with multiple injuries, to find help for his two passengers.
When his mother is sent to jail in Los Angeles, eleven-year-old Tony goes to live with his forest ranger great-uncle in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, where Tony experiences unconditional love for the first time through his friendship with a rescue dog.
Seventeen-year-old Moses struggles to stay alive when he is left behind to keep watch over the belongings of his fellow travelers in a wagon train that has run into trouble with the onset of winter while journeying from Iowa to California in 1844.
the 100th anniversary illustrated edition of the American classic
Muir, John
2011
The journal of naturalist John Muir, in which he records his thoughts and experiences in the Sierra Mountains, where he went for the first time in 1869 to oversee the movement of a band of sheep to summer pasture. Includes color photographs of the area as well as Muir's illustrations from the original work.
Greg and Kirk become involved in a frightening and dangerous adventure when they set out for the Sierras to investigate reported sightings of Big Foot.
Examines the experiences of the Donner Party, a group of eighty-seven individuals that headed West from Illinois in 1846, became trapped in a snowstorm, and was forced to take desperate measures to stay alive.
