Natural History
Blackwell, L. R. Wildflowers of the Eastern Sierra and Adjoining Mojave Desert and Great Basin. Edmonton, Canada: Lone Pine Press, 2002.
Gaines, D. Birds of Yosemite and the East Slope, Lee Vining, CA: Artemisia Press, 1992.
Hill, M. Geology of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006.
Jameson, E.W., and H.J. Peeters. Mammals of California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006.
Weeden, N. A Sierra Nevada Flora. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 1996.
Smith, G. 1978. Deepest Valley: A Guide to Owens Valley, Its Roadsides and Mountain Trails. Los Altos, CA: G. Smith Books (Distributed by William Kaufmann), 1978.
Human History
Bowie, W. “Leveling Up Mount Whitney,” Sierra Club Bulletin, 24:53-57, 1929.
Brewer, W.H., and W.H. Alsup. “Such a Landscape!: A Narrative of the 1864 California Geological Survey Exploration of Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon From the Diary, Field Notes, Letters & Reports of William Henry Brewer”. Yosemite National Park, CA: Yosemite Association, 1999.
Browning, P. Place Names of the Sierra Nevada: From Abbot to Zumwalt. Berkeley, CA: Wilderness Press, 1991.
Dyer, H. “The Mt. Whitney Trail,” Sierra Club Bulletin, 1:1-8, 1893.
Farquhar, F.P. “The Story of Mount Whitney,” Sierra Club Bulletin, 14:39-53, 1929.
Farquhar, F.P. History of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965.
King, C. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Le Conte, J.N. “Notes on the King’s River and Mt. Whitney Trails (July and August, 1890),” Sierra Club Bulletin, 1:93-106, 1894.
Moore, J. G. Exploring the Highest Sierra. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Parsons, M.R. “With the Sierra Club in the Kern Cañon,” Sierra Club Bulletin, 7:23-32, 1909.
Thompson, D. and E. Newbold. Mount Whitney: Mountain Lore from the Whitney Store. El Cajon, CA: Westwind Publishing Company, 2003.
History of Astronomy Research on Mt. Whitney
McAdie, A.G. “Mt. Whitney as a Site for a Meteorological Observatory,” Sierra Club Bulletin, 5:87-101, 1904.
Osterbrock, D. “To Climb the Highest Mountain: W. W. Cambell’s 1909 Mars Expedition to Mount Whitney,” Journal of Historical Astronomy, 20:77-97, 1989.
Precautions and Considerations
Hackett, P.H., and R.C. Roach. “High-Altitude Illness,” New England Journal of Medicine, 345:107-114, 2001.
Houston, Charles, et al. Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountains. Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books 2005.
Wagner, D.R., et al. “Variables Contributing to Acute Mountain Sickness on the Summit of Mt Whitney,” Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 17:221-228, 2006.