JOSEPH E. TAYLOR III ON CLIMBER, GRANITE, SKY

Environmental History, Jan 2006 by Taylor, Joseph E III

1. Vittorio Sella, Summit: Vittorio Sella, Mountaineer and Photographer, the Years 18791909 (New York: Aperature, 1999); Ansel Adams, "Vittorio Sella: His Photography," Sierra Club Bulletin 31 (December 1946), 15-17; Allison Kemmerer, Reinventing the West: The Photographs of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams (Andover: Addison Gallery of America Art, Phillips Academy, 2001).

2. see, for example, Galen Rowell, Mountain Light (San Francisco: Sierra Club Press, 1986).

3. For club journals, see Matthew S. Willen, "Composing Mountaineering: The Personal Narrative and the Production of Knowledge in the Alpine Club of London and the Appalachian Mountain Club, 1858-1900" (PhD dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 1995); Erik Weiselberg, "The Cultural Landscape of the Alps: British and German Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century" (MA thesis, University of Oregon, 1994), 36-43; Richard G. Mitchell Jr., Mountain Experience: The Psychology and Sociology of Adventure (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 100-109.

4. Cameron quoted in Reuben Ellis, Vertical Margins: Mountaineering and the Landscapes of Imperialism (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), 31. For gender and empire see also Peter H. Hansen, "Albert Smith, the Alpine Club, and the Invention of Mountaineering in Mid-Victorian Britain," Journal of British Studies 34 (1995): 300-24; Peter H. Hansen, "Vertical Boundaries, National Identities: British Mountaineering on the Frontiers of Europe and the Empire, 1868-1914," Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 24 (1996): 48-71.

5. F. W. Bourdillon, "Without Are Dogs," Alpine Journal 27 (1913): 153-66; Peter H. Hansen, "British Mountaineering, 1850-1914" (PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 1991), 25770; Fergus Fleming, Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000), 324-25; Jose Burman, A Peak to Climb: The Story of South African Mountaineering (Cape Town: C. Struik, 1966), 15-17.

6. For Sierra Club, see Michael P. Cohen, The History of the Sierra Club, 1892-1970 (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1988), 10,100. For other clubs see Hugh E. Kingery, The Colorado Mountain Club: The First Seventy-Five Years of a Highly Individual Corporation, 19121987 (Evergreen, CoIo.: Cordillera Press, 1988); Jim Kjeldsen, The Mountaineers: A History (Seattle: The Mountaineers, 1998); John D. Scott, We CIimbHigh:A Thumbnail Chronology of the Mazamas, 1894-1964 (Portland: Mazamas, 1969); Erik Lawrence Weiselberg, "Ascendancy of the Mazamas: Environment, Identity and Mountain Climbing in Oregon, 1870 to 1930" (PhD diss., University of Oregon, 1999); Karen Ferguson and Meg Stanley, "Out of Bounds': Risk, Mountain Culture, and Public Memory on the North Shore of Vancouver, 1871-2000"; and Christopher Dummit, "Risk on the Rocks: Creating a Modern Masculinity on Vancouver's North Shore Mountains, 1945-1975," papers presented at the 2004 meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, March 2004.

7. For vows, see David R. Brower, "How To Kill a Wilderness," Sierra Club Bulletin 30 (August 1945), 2-4; Dick Leonard, "Conservationist Writes From I-B Jungle," Yodeler 6 (December 4,1944): 3; Major Richard M. Leonard, "Threats to Wilderness Arising from Unexpected Sources; Need for Vigilance seen," Yodeler 7 (17 September 1945), i, 8. For charter, see Cohen, History of the Sierra Club, 100.