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Simply follow the directions below. After you have completed the card, you will be shown a preview. If you want to edit it and then send it, just cancel the request. The recipient will receive an e-mail letting them know how they can access the postcard you sent them.

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Park History Time Line

Native Americans inhabited the region perhaps as long as 7,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Sierra Miwok. called the Yosemite Valley "Ahwahnee," which translates loosely as "Place of a Gaping Mouth."

1830s - Early non-Native American explorers refer to the Yosemite Valley in their journals.

1848 - Gold! The discovery of gold brought scores of gold miners to the Sierra Nevada. Thousands of miners appropriate Indian lands, which quickly resulted in the Mariposa Indian War.

1855 - As word spread about its pristine beauty, the first party of tourists arrived.

1864 - Thanks to the unwavering efforts of individuals such as Galen Clark, President Lincoln provided the first official protection of the region when he signed the Yosemite Grant on June 30, 1864. The grant deeded Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to the state of California.

1889 - John Muir and Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of Century magazine, set up camp in Tuolumne Meadows.There they planned a campaign to make the high country surrounding Yosemite Valley into a national park.

1890 - Muir and Johnson's campaign works. On October 1, Congress set aside more than 1,500 square miles of "reserved forest lands" soon to be known as Yosemite National Park. It included the area surrounding Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias.

1903 - California cedes the Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove ceded to the federal government.