As dawn broke the next morning, I was in a kayak on the mirror-still waters of Sagamore Lake and already spotting ... not a fan of foot travel. With few trails in the 1800s, pro- gress over ...

In the summer of 1861, Watkins set out to photograph Yosemite, carrying a literal ton of equipment on mules—tripods, dark tent, lenses and a novel invention for taking sharp photographs of ...