Sierras

This statue of the Poet of the Sierras is in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park

Joaquin Miller 2010

Ski resorts in the Sierras were the biggest beneficiaries of the tropical moisture barreling in from the Pacific.

Mudslide Risk Rises as California Braces for More Rain Peter Sanders 2010

RYAN CRAIG, ACADEMY OF THE SIERRAS: The Academy of the Sierras is the first year-round treatment program for obese and overweight adolescents.

CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2005 2005

RYAN CRAIG, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ACADEMY OF THE SIERRAS: Academy of the Sierras is the first year-round treatment program for obese and overweight adolescents, and we do it in a boarding school environment.

CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2005 2005

RYAN CRAIG, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ACADEMY OF THE SIERRAS: Academy of the Sierras is the first year-round treatment program for obese and overweight adolescents, and we do it in a boarding school environment.

CNN Transcript Jun 17, 2005 2005

RYAN CRAIG, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ACADEMY OF THE SIERRAS: Academy of the Sierras is the first year-round treatment program for obese and overweight adolescents, and we do it in a boarding school environment.

CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2005 2005

In his book Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, King wrote about those mountains based on his 1866 exploration: “For four hundred miles the Sierras are a definite ridge, broad and high, and having the form of a sea-wave.”

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

In his book Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, King wrote about those mountains based on his 1866 exploration: “For four hundred miles the Sierras are a definite ridge, broad and high, and having the form of a sea-wave.”

Nothing Like It in the World The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 STEPHEN E. AMBROSE 2000

Stretching from their base west to the Sierras is a great plateau region, drained by the numerous tributaries of the San

The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

Andes of North America, which in California is known as the Sierras, but which in Oregon changes its name to the Cascades.

Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. Ledyard Bill