Thanks to an unlikely visionary’s humble efforts to preserve California’s Yosemite Valley and nearby giant redwoods, new generations of adventurers continue to enjoy them as places of untouched beauty. Galen Clark, the improbable hero of this tale, was born March 28, 1814, the seventh of 11 children. In the 1830s, he left his New England home for Missouri, married and had five children. After the family moved to Philadelphia, his wife died. Clark placed his children with relatives and he
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