Excerpt from The Sierra Club Bulletin, Vol. 1: 1893-1896 The five volumes of the Sierra Club Bulletin completed be fore 1906, of which this is one, ' have long been out of print and exceedingly difiicult to obtain; the type, the plates, manu scripts and photographs, the overrun, and many individuals' files were destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire. Spurred on, perhaps, by Ronald Clark's pleasant description of the Bulletin in The Splendid Hills, where he speaks of it as that model of all mountain periodicals, the Sierra Club has brought the early volumes back into print, thus enabling important libraries, whether individual or institutional, to complete their files of turn-of-the-century description of ex ploration and conservation in the Sierra N evada. Reproduction of these volumes is by photo-ofiset, and the text remains exactly as it was. The trim size of the first two numbers has been increased so that they will conform with the rest of the series; some of the line drawings are reduced in size to eliminate tip-ins; the plates are rescreened and as sembled as signatures; and some advertisements are omitted - reluctantly - to keep the volumes of uniform size. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.