Demars, Stanford E. The Tourist in Yosemite. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1991.

Kalfus, Melvin. Frederick Law Olmsted: The Passion of a Public Artist. New York: New York University Press, 1990.

Olmsted, Frederick Law. The Papers of, Volume 5: The California Frontier, 1863-1865. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

Roper, Laura Wood. FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.

All photographs of Yosemite and the Mariposa Estate are by Carleton E. Watkins

A complete text of "Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report, 1865" can be found at http://www.yosemite.ca.us/history/olmsted/report.html

I found this Web site to be a helpful and comprehensive resource:

http://www.newbedford.com/olmsted.html

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