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Yosemite National Park (Agency : U.S.)
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Yosemite National Park is located in the western Sierra Nevada of Central California and managed by the U.S. National Park Service. It covers 747,956 acres. The park was central to the development of the Untied States national park idea. Galen Clark lobbied to protect Yosemite Valley from development and President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Grant in 1864. "Yosemite" (meaning "killer" in Miwok) originally referred to the name of a Native American tribe which was driven out of the area by the Mariposa Battalion.
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| Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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| referencedIn | Lee-Mee Indian Ceremony | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Mono Lake Committee Collection, 1919-1997, (bulk 1977-1995) | Water Resources Collections and Archives | |
| Yosemite | National Archives at College Park | ||
| referencedIn | Smith, Esther. Esther Smith scrapbooks of a bus tour of the American West , 1935 | University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Esther Smith scrapbooks of a bus tour of the American West, 1935 | University of California, Irvine. Library. Department of Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Russell, Carl Parcher, 1894-1967. Carl Parcher Russell papers, [ca. 1929-1965]. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Glimpses of Our National Parks | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Fascinating Yosemite | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Seeing Yosemite National Park | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Seeing Yosemite from a Saddle | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Forever Wild: The Bears of Yosemite | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Evermann (Barton Warren) papers, undated | California Academy of Sciences, Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Horace Albright's 1931 Congressional Trip to Western Parks | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | William Frederic Badè papers, 1871-1936 | Bancroft Library | |
| referencedIn | Field Notebooks, 1929 - 1972 | National Archives at Denver | |
| referencedIn | Yosemite: An Experience to Remember | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Powell, William Aden. Papers, 1902-1920. | Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library | |
| referencedIn | Central Files, 1915 - 1966 | National Archives at San Francisco | |
| Yosemite | National Archives at College Park | ||
| referencedIn | Yosemite Exhibit Film: Glaciation | National Archives at College Park | |
| referencedIn | Yosemite Is My Home | National Archives at College Park |
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| correspondedWith | Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936 | person |
| correspondedWith | Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936 | person |
| associatedWith | Evermann, Barton Warren, 1853-1932 | person |
| associatedWith | Mono Lake Committee | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Powell, William Aden. | person |
| associatedWith | Russell, Carl Parcher, 1894-1967. | person |
| associatedWith | Smith, Esther | person |
| associatedWith | Smith, Esther. | person |
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| Yosemite National Park | CA | US | |
| California | CA | US |
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Establishment 1890-10-01
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