Historic People and Places of Sequoia and Kings Canyon

Bill Tweed, utilizing the knowledge and skills he developed during thirty years with the National Park Service where he worked as an interpretive writer, historian, and naturalist, specializes in writing that brings together the natural and human worlds. Bill worked for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks until his retirement in 2006. Bill has published several books about the parks and also wrote a column for the Visalia Times-Delta on nature in Central California. Since 1997, when the column first appeared, more than 400 of his essays have appeared in the newspaper.

His essays were available to park staff who scrolled to the bottom of the weekly SEKI Bulletin where one of his essays from the SEKI Historic People and Places series was posted.  The series explored the who's and where's of the southern Sierra Nevada both before and during the National Park Service's stewardship of the mountain range.

Now, enjoy the same series presented in this web map, where the stories gain geographic perspective. People featured in the essays have been pinned to locations that bear their name, were impacted by their actions, or were otherwise affiliated in some way. Places featured in the essays have been pinned where they are described. Photos from NPGallery have been added to each location wherever possible, or from other reaches of the public domain wherever not.

Credits

This story map was created in partnership between Bill Tweed and the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks GIS shop. For more history from Bill Tweed, see his other body of work:

Terms of Use

 _{The National Park Service shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein. These data and related graphics are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such.} 

 _{The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the original sources from which they were derived. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and consistent within the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. The related graphics are intended to aid the data user in acquiring relevant data; it is not appropriate to use the related graphics as data.} 

 _{The National Park Service gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. It is strongly recommended that these data are directly acquired from an NPS server and not indirectly through other sources which may have changed the data in some way. Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system at the National Park Service, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on another system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data.}