In the summer of 1913, a battle waged in Congress over the legislation that would become the Raker Act, designed to open the way for the damming of the Hetch Hetchy valley in Yosemite National Park. That July, John Muir visited Inverness, where he came to deliver a message. It was a message about the fight for Hetch Hetchy, and it needed to be delivered in person.
Inverness in 1913 was filled with Muir’s friends…