Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "History of the Yosemite area" in English language version.
Yosemite Phelan Lippincott.
Stoneman 1970 riot.
The first non-native group to enter Yosemite was the Mariposa Battalion, a Euro-American militia formed to drive the native Ahwahneechee people onto reservations.
All signs indicate automobile victory, and doubtless, under certain precautionary restrictions, these useful, progressive, blunt-nosed mechanical beetles will hereafter be allowed to puff their way into all the parks and mingle their gas-breath with the breath of the pines and waterfalls, and, from the mountaineer's standpoint, with but little harm or good.
"Many of the recommendations... are simply impossible to obtain." -- Jack Morehead, Park Superintendent