Galen+Clark

=Galen Clark Notes:=

==="Yosemite National Park - Galen Clark (U.S. National Park Service)." //U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America//. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. .===
 * 1) **Born in Dublin, New Hampshire**
 * 2) **Born on 1814**
 * 3) **Developed a love for Yosemite in 1855**
 * 4) **Worked for Mariposa Ditch Company**
 * 5) **Quit his job when he discovered he was suffering from a lung hemorrhage**
 * 6) **Settled in Wawona in 1857**
 * 7) **Within the first 5 yrs of living there he worked toward making Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove protected**
 * 8) **1864, Lincoln signed the Act of Congress**
 * 9) **For 24 years Clark was a guardian of the set aside land**
 * 10) **Went into debt**
 * 11) **Had to sell the road-building Washburn brothers in 1874**
 * 12) **Though he wasnt great in buisiness, he was known for his hospitality and generosity**
 * 13) **Met John Muir**
 * 14) **Took many journies in Yosemite in 2 years**
 * 15) **Accompied Ralph Waldo Emerson on a trip**
 * 16) <span style="color: #ff004d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**There is a sequoia named after Clark**
 * 17) <span style="color: #ff004d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Retired in 1897**
 * 18) <span style="color: #ff004d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Even in retirment he was a tourist camp manger and guid**
 * 19) <span style="color: #ff004d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**On March 24, 1910 he died at his daughters home in Oakland, CA**
 * 20) <span style="color: #ff004d; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Dug his own grave in Yosemite Falls and planted 4 sequoia around his grave**

==="Yosemite Parkâs First Guardian, Galen Clark." //Plan a Yosemite National Park Vacation of a Lifetime with Resources Provided by MyYosemitePark.com//. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. <http://myyosemitepark.com/TTD/ShowThingsToDo.aspx?ttd=82>.===
 * 1) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Clark held the postion of being the a guardian for 35 yrs
 * 2) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">When he was a guardia, he accomanied many famous writters, scientist, painters, and many tourist
 * 3) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Had a stagecoach station names after him
 * 4) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">At the rest stop torist could sleep over nite, rest, eat, feed and water their horses
 * 5) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">His business failed
 * 6) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">He first visited Yosemite area in 1855 as a tourist
 * 7) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">He built his cabin on Wawona Meadow
 * 8) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">2 years after living in Wawona Meadows he quit his job
 * 9) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Sought out to find a cure for his sickness in the air in Yosemite
 * 10) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wrote about Yosemite and helped having the people of America get knowledge of the beauty Yosemit has
 * 11) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Died at age 96
 * 12) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The 4 sequoia sapplings he planted 40 years before his death are still there today growing
 * 13) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Was a guardian til 1897
 * 14) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Helped with the effort to have the sequoias protected by Congress
 * 15) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Helped preserving Yosemite for future generations
 * 16) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Yosemite became a national park in 1890
 * 17) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">In 1864, Lincoln signed the Yosemite Land Grant
 * 18) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Yosemite then became a public use and restoration project
 * 19) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">There were 8 board members including Clark
 * 20) <span style="color: #0077ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Clark was one of the first choices for a guardianship

"Happy 197th Birthday Galen Clark | YosemiteBlog.com." //Yosemite Blog//. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. <http://yosemiteblog.com/2011/03/28/happy-197th-birthday-galen-clark/>.

 * 1) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">﻿Clark was at Yosemite in 1855 for a 17-member pioneer tourist party
 * 2) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Suffered a lung hemorrage
 * 3) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Clark lived on the most scenic since it included a famed view of old Inspiration Point
 * 4) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Clark would engage with converstation with his guest over American Indains to Politics
 * 5) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">John Muir wrote about him in his book in chapter 15
 * 6) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Clark choice his resting place decades before his death
 * 7) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He choose his granite stone as his head stone
 * 8) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">He built his house on the on the road that stretches to Mariposa Grove of Big Trees all the way to Yosemite Valley
 * 9) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Wawona is a Indain word for big tree
 * 10) <span style="color: #8200ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">John Muir and Clark became close friends over the years

Clark, Galen. "Indians of the Yosemite Valley and ... - Galen Clark." //Google Books//. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. <http://books.google.com/books?id=Qw4AzhwEmjMC>.

 * 1) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">One of the first full-time white resident of Yosemite
 * 2) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Is considered the first park ranger ever and of Yosemite
 * 3) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Clark never had training in ethnography
 * 4) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Lived with the last generation of Native Americans of Yosemite
 * 5) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">When sick doctors gave him 6 months to live
 * 6) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Moved to Wawona as a homesteader
 * 7) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Spent years dicovering the sequioas
 * 8) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Had a passion for Yosemite
 * 9) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Lead to the Yosemite Grant
 * 10) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The grant was the first of its kind
 * 11) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">After the grant was granted his lungs healed
 * 12) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Was constely in debt
 * 13) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Had more employes then guest
 * 14) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">At the end of his life he was poor
 * 15) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Clark Wrote a book during his life time
 * 16) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">In his book he left out his personal opinion
 * 17) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The giant sequoia was named 'the galen clark tree'
 * 18) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Clark has a tree named after him for his help towards the Natinal Park Service
 * 19) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Clark became friends with the natives
 * 20) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Loved the outdoors

==="Galen Clark - Conservationist, Mariposa Grove and The Giant Sequoias." //Tigerhomes.org Live Animal Webcams, White Tiger Cams, Lemur and Lion Webcams//. Web. 09 Oct. 2011. [].===
 * 1) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Milton Mann helped Clark with discorving the Mariposa Grove
 * 2) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Clarks heart layed in the Sierra Nevada
 * 3) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">The Gold Rush was happening at this time
 * 4) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">People who came during the gold rush cut down the trees in there way
 * 5) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Clark found his grave 20 yrs before his own death
 * 6) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Logging companies came around the timeof the gold rush
 * 7) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">﻿Clark made the choice with is life and go to the Sierra Nevada
 * 8) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Clarks mountain man skills were amazing
 * 9) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Muir said the Clark had impeccable mountain man skills
 * 10) <span style="color: #a000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Clarks grave is on the northside of Yosemite Falls