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Show 328 Overland, in 1872 and 1874, recommended that the tourist enjoy scenes normally passed on the way to Yosemite, or else that the tourist pass Yosemite in order to seek out the more "condensed" landscape of the high Sierra. Further, these two essays reveal Muir's early awkwardness in the task. The most reasonable strategy, Muir thought, would be to initiate the tourist as he himself had been initiated at Twenty Hill Hollow in the Central Valley, or Bloody Canyon at the crest of the Sierra. Was his experience the same as that which the average tourist might be expected to have? He would assume it was. As a result, these articles were public versions of Muir's own growth of consciousness. "Twenty Hill Hollow" became an analysis of his own complex attitude toward a pastoral landscape, and "By-Ways of Yosemite Travel: Bloody Canyon" dealt with his initiation into high cold solitudes and hot desert plains. THE TOURIST AND A MODERATE SCENE Why send the tourist to Twenty Hill Hollow, a little valley lying in the plain of the Central Valley, between the Merced and the Tuolumne Rivers, five miles from the Sierran foothills? Because Muir said it was the scene of his own baptism into the "Plant gold " and "sun gold" of California? Because it was left out of the "descriptions of California scenery, by the literary racers who annually make a trial of their speed here?" Because tourists, "who are hurled into Yosemite by 'favorite |