Joseph LeConte

In 1870 Professor Joseph LeConte of the newly formed University of California led a party of students through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The party traveled on horseback from Oakland, the Berkeley campus had not even been started at the time, and visited Yosemite, Mono Lake and Lake Tahoe. Much of their travel was on barely passable trails that are paved highways today. Meeting John Muir in Yosemite was one of the stories told in this book.