the senator asked. Turnage was ready with an answer: create a new Ansel Adams Wilderness area, which, along with the expanded John Muir Wilderness, would link two of the great High Sierra national ...
He began by quoting from the Census of 1890: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area ... Adams, born in San Francisco in 1902 ...
Ansel Adams took his first long trip into the wilderness in 1920, when he was just eighteen. His burro, Mistletoe, carried almost a hundred pounds of gear and food; he himself carried a thirty ...