A stagecoach passing under a tunnel cut through a large sequoias tree in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, ca.1900

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Title	A stagecoach passing under a tunnel cut through a large sequoias tree in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, ca.1900
Description	Photograph of a stagecoach passing under a tunnel cut through a large sequoias tree in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park, California, ca.1900. The stagecoach, pulled by four horses, is carrying about five passengers and a driver. They are stopped at about midway out of the tree's manmade tunnel. The forest looms in the background.; "Walking today through the Mariposa Grove, where Muir and Roosevelt discussed conservation by campfire, one comes across a giant sequoia lying on its side. It is the Wawona Tunnel Tree, a sober reminder of past sacrifices to the gods of recreation. In 1881, Henry Washburn of the Wawona Hotel Company paid two men to hollow out the base of this glorious monarch, 26 feet in diameter, so that people could drive through in their stagecoaches. Tunneling out the trunk, however, cut into the tree's expansive but shallow root system. The Wawona tree had survived epic fires and the weathering of more than 20 centuries. But in the winter of 1969, the giant finally toppled from the weight of snow--and our need for gimmicks. The National Park Service disavows such crass amusements now, but as long as the agency remains federally run, and federally funded, it must at least bend to the will of the people." -- Alex Hawes.
Subject	Yosemite National Park
Subject (adlf)	parks
Subject (file heading)	natural features -- Parks -- Yosemite -- Mariposa Grove
Subject (lcsh)	Coaching Horses Trees Mountains Parks
Geographic subject (county)	Mariposa
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1900
Photographer	Pierce, C.C. (Charles C.), 1861-1946
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1900
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Contributing entity	California Historical Society
Accession number	5992
Call number	CHS-5992
Microfiche number	1-73-32
Legacy record ID	chs-m17562; USC-1-1-1-14280
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Project	USC
Rights	Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-5992
Archival file	chs_Volume99/CHS-5992.tiff

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