Yosemite

Before 1851 nobody knew about Yosemite except for the Indians who lived there. In 1851, gold miners came to Yosemite and killed all the animals and fish. So the Indians couldn't eat them. But the Indians burned all the houses of the gold miners. One time after they had attacked some of the houses, some gold miners led by General John Savage went to look for the Indians who did it. When they looked out into a clearing, they forgot all about the Indians. They saw a giant waterfall, four times as tall as Niagra Falls. When they saw it, the General thought it looked like a bridal veil so they named it Bridal Veil Falls. They thought they heard thunder but it was an even bigger waterfall. Over the day, they found our more waterfalls, forest and mountains. They found a huge mountain named Half Dome; it was so slick and steep that no one could get up it. One day, a man said that he had climbed the Half Dome and when nobody believed him, he said that he had nailed spikes into the face of the mountain and climbed up the spikes. Over the years, they put a ladder there so people could go up like the author of the book did. Yosemite is now a national park in California near the border to Nevada.