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III. ENDNOTES
- Linda Wedel Greene, Yosemite, The Park and Its Resources: A History of the Discovery, Management, and Physical Development of Yosemite National Park, California. 3 vols. (Washington: National Park Service, 1987), I:244; Fran Hubbard, "Road to Rusting Dream," Yosemite Nature Notes, Vol. XXXIV No.6, June 1955, 86. The Jedediah Smith party is said to have found some gold at nearby Mono Lake in 1828, twenty years before the famous discovery at Sutter's Mill at Coloma. (Hubbard, 86.)
- Greene, I:244, Ronald E. Bainbridge, "The Story of the Tioga Road," Yosemite Nature Notes, Vol. XXXII No. 10, October 1953, 93-94.
- Keith A. Trexler, Yosemite Park Naturalist, The Tioga Road: A History, 1883-1961, (Yosemite, CA: Yosemite Association, revised edition 1980), 2.
- Ibid., 2.
- (Sonora, CA) Union Democrat, 10 January 1863.
- Trexler, 2 .
- Ibid., 2-3. Fran Hubbard erroneously suggested that the original miners on the claim "must have perished" in their work. (Hubbard, 87).
- Hubbard, 87; Greene, I:246-47.
- "Tioga Pass--Where Roadbuilders Meet the Rugged West," California Highways and Public Works, January-February 1966, 7; Greene, I:244-45; Trexler, 3.
- Greene., I:245-46.
- Trexler, 4-5, Greene, I:250.
- John V. Ferretti, Surveying the Tioga Road," Yosemite Nature Notes, Vol. XXVII No.9, September 1948, 109, 112.
- "The Great Sierra Wagon Road," Mariposa Gazette,28 April 1883, 2; Hubbard, 89.
- Homer Mining Index, 11 August 1883. Clipping in Yosemite Research Library collection. Yosemite National Park Historian Jim Snyder points out that the "heavy blasting" was less drastic than it sounds in the report. Real blasting powder was used, a slow explosive for the hard granite shelves along the road. The hundred blasters, working with hand drills, powder and fuse, worked from hole to hole in an incremental pattern, as compared to the modern use of track drills and many shots fired at one time. (Jim Snyder, Yosemite National Park Historian, to Richard Quin, 6 May 1992, 11.)
- Greene, I:251, 254; Bainbridge, 95; Trexler, 6.
- "Extract from the MSS Autobiography of John A. Dron, Ojai, California, 1962," 29. Yosemite Research Library .
- Cited in Hubbard, 87.
