King's " Mountaineering 



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CLARENCE KING'S Mountain- 

 eering' in the Sierra Nevada 

 is the single volume of literary work 

 which this strong and gifted man 

 permitted himself in his active career 

 as a scientist. Most of the sketches, 

 fourteen in number, were originally 

 published in the Atlantic Monthly in 

 the sixties, and four editions of the 

 book were brought out by James R, 

 Osgood & Co., then publishers of 

 that magazine, previous to 1874. 

 Nine of the sketches bear date pre- 

 vious to 1866, when King was in his 



* Reprinted from The New York Times, 

 Saturday Supplement, January 10, 1903. A 

 review of the fifth edition of Mountaineering 

 in the Sierra Nevada, by Clarence King. 

 New York : Charles Scribner's Sons. 1902. 

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