This is likely John Muir’s earliest drawing of a Giant Sequoia (albeit a dead one).

It is believed to have come from Muir’s 1869 visit to the Tuolumne Grove that is documented in My First Summer in the Sierra.

A tunnel was bored through this snag in 1878, and visitors could drive through it until 1962, when this section of Big Oak Flat Road was diverted.

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Read King Sequoia: The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature, 2015 by William C. Tweed.