Pathway in the sky the story of the John Muir Trail text and photographs by Hal Roth. Berkeley, California: Howell-North Books, [1965]. 28x21.5 cm (large octavo), pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] 9-231 [232: blank], 210 illustrations, 6 maps (including 2 on endpapers), original gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. Roth's book includes an excellent, well-documented history of the effort to locate, establish and construct the John Muir Trail. The idea for a north-south trail along the Sierra Nevada crest was proposed by Theodore H. Solomons in 1884. In the 1890s Solomons, Bolton C. Brown and others explored possible routes. In 1915 the State of California approved legislation providing for the construction of such a trail, to be named after John Muir. Work on incomplete sections of the trail was largely carried out by the United States Forest Service with the final section finished in 1938. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#166138).
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