Historic People and Places of Sequoia and Kings Canyon

Tweed, Bill; Flickinger, Joshua

Bill Tweed, utilizing the knowledge and skills he developed during thirty years with the National Park Service where he worked as an interpretive writer, historian, and naturalist, specializes in writing that brings together the natural and human worlds. Bill worked for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks until his retirement in 2006. Bill has published several books about the parks and also wrote a column for the Visalia Times-Delta on nature in Central California. Since 1997, when the column first appeared, more than 400 of his essays have appeared in the newspaper. His essays were available to park staff who scrolled to the bottom of the weekly SEKI Bulletin where one of his essays from the SEKI Historic People and Places series was posted. The series explored the who's and where's of the southern Sierra Nevada both before and during the National Park Service's stewardship of the mountain range. This map presents the same series of essays in digital web map form, where the stories gain geographic perspective. People featured in the essays have been pinned to locations that bear their name, were impacted by their actions, or were otherwise affiliated in some way. Places featured in the essays have been pinned where they are described. Photos from NPGallery have been added to each location wherever possible, or from other reaches of the public domain wherever not.