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Theodore Solomons
1870-1947
Theodore Solomons - Kings Canyon, 1895
Upon Solomons' completion of a route from Yosemite to Kings Canyon
which later became the John Muir Trail.
- "The
Pioneer of the John Muir Trail."
- Sierra
Nevada explorer, surveyor, map-maker, photographer, and writer.
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Theodore
S. Solomons met Muir several times, and later wrote an article: Muir
of the Nineties, Sierra Club Bulletin..
- Solomons
was the first to photograph the Tuolumne Canyon and such summits as
Banner Peak and Mount Ritter. He discovered, and named, the great
peaks of the Evolution Range. Most importantly, he had the vision
for, and surveyed and mapped the major portion of the high mountain
route that was to become the famed John Muir Trail of the High Sierra.
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Solomons wrote of his acquaintance with Muir: "Muir was exceedingly
generous in his encouragement of us younger mountaineers.... He gave
to us much time, and was patient with our fool questions. No doubt
I asked him many during my several visits to the Martinez ranch where
the lover of pure wildness in nature made himself content for the
most of each year with the quite tame pursuits of the fruit grower...."
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For more information, see Shirley Sargent, Solomons of the
Sierra: the Pioneer of the John Muir Trail (Yosemite: Flying
Spur Press, 1989).
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