TEN VOLUMES OF PUBLICATIONS 



1892 TO I917 

 By Elliott McAllister 



THE activities of the Sierra Club during the past twenty-five 

 years have found a faithful record in its pubHcations. Am- 

 ple reward follows an examination of those records. In the 

 earlier volumes are found narratives of many pioneer trips into 

 regions that are now well known to many members of the club. 

 The explorations of Theodore S. Solomons, of Robert M. 

 Price, of Bolton Coit Brown, and the winter trips of J. E. 

 Church, Jr., are all notable in that regard. At that time J. N. 

 Le Conte commenced the pubUcation of his valuable maps of 

 the High Sierra. The accuracy of these can be appreciated only 

 by one who has had occasion to use them. More interesting 

 than any of the fine photographs appearing throughout the pub- 

 lications are the original sketches of the high mountain regions 

 made by Bolton Coit Brown. 



Joseph Le Conte's Ramhlings Through the High Sierra, the 

 diary of his trip through the Yosemite in 1870, which had been 

 privately printed in 1875, was republished by the club in 1900 

 in volume III. 



All of these reports and accounts of what awaited the explor- 

 er brought about the demand for that splendid undertaking of 

 the club, its summer outing. Until 1900 the club had been tell- 

 ing its members of the beauties and wonders that awaited them, 

 but not until that year had anyone been found willing to under- 

 take the responsibility and labor attending upon organization 

 and control of an outing for all members that desired to attend. 

 At that time, however, the Outing Committee, composed of J. 

 N. Le Conte, E. T. Parsons, A. I. Street, and William E. Colby, 

 accepted this work, and in 1901 conducted the first outing into 

 the Tuolumne Meadows and from that point into the High 

 Sierra. 



From the outset these summer outings were recognized as 



