Yosemite

Wild Women Of The West: Flo Hutchings

October 14, 2020
Fifteen-year-old Gertrude Hutchings sat on the edge of her sister Florence’s bed, crying.  Florence, a pretty girl of seventeen with long, dark hair lay motionless under a mountain of blankets.  A massive purple and black bruise on the side of her right cheek was the only color on her slender, pale face.  Her eyes were closed and her...

Wild Women Wednesday: Sarah Louisa Dutcher

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January 4, 2017
Yosemite’s Half Dome, the hooded monk in stone, brooding over its eastern end, rises thousands of feet from the ground below, so high that its summit is wreathed in clouds.  In October 1876, three men scaled the mountain face slowly working their way to the top.  All were dressed in woolen caps and trousers, thick...

Wild Women Wednesday: Isabella Logan Leidig

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November 30, 2016
Nature writer and conservationist John Muir sat alone at a table in the Leidig Hotel in Yosemite, patiently waiting for the breakfast he ordered to be served.  He was a tall, gangly, bearded man deeply focused on a stack of geological surveys in front of him.  The hotel kitchen doors swung open and appetizing aroma...

Wild Women Wednesday: Elizabeth "Lizzie" Pershing

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October 26, 2016
Twenty-four-year-old Lizzie K. Pershing stood at the base of Yosemite’s South Dome staring up at the mountain.  A cold, stiff wind traveled across the rock with such force she struggled to keep her balance.  She pulled her coat tightly around her shoulders and rubbed her gloved hand over the smooth stone.  It was October 8,...

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