The real America: A drive through the US National Parks

The writer goes on a 10,000-km camping holiday across America's greatest national parks

Ajai Shukla  August 19, 2016 Last Updated at 20:46 IST

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In the spring of 1851, during the gold rush, a California state militia called the Mariposa Battalion was combing the Sierra Nevada mountain range, searching for Native American warriors who were fighting the colonisers from the east. On March 27, they came upon a valley along which flowed the Merced River. Lafayette Bunnell, an officer with the battalion, stood there transfixed at the array of magnificent, vertical rock faces, carved by glaciers 20,000 years ago, and vertical waterfalls a thousand feet high. Bunnell was instrumental in naming the valley Yosemite, after the local ...

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The real America: A drive through the US National Parks