Product Details

• Directors: Melanie Rhalter
• Format: Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: June 15, 1998
• Run Time: 48 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0970854420
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,021 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

For anyone who has ever been charmed by the beauty of Yosemite and the Ahwahnee Hotel, this video is made for you! Experience Yosemite’s best as you explore its natural splendor and fascinating human history and discover the famous Ahwahnee Hotel:
• Take a unique tour of the Ahwahnee led by a former manager whose memories go back to its very beginning. Learn about the the Hotel's design, architecture, stories of celebrated visitors, plus vintage film footage from its earliest days.
• See the legendary Bracebridge Dinner!
• Learn about Yosemite’s First People — the Native American Miwoks — their art, culture and relationship to Yosemite.
• Take a tour of the park with a Ranger-Naturalist.
• Explore the park in all its seasons, plus visit the giant Sequoia trees and Yosemite’s magnificent high country.
• Meet early explorers and pioneer settlers.
• Go on great hikes; see waterfalls, wildflower displays, unforgettable scenery and Yosemite’s wonderful wildlife.
• From the award-winning film makers of Echoes Through Time: Grand Canyon and Echoes Through Time: Death Valley.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ahwahnee video!, April 13, 2001

By 

Hank Gross (Fresno, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yosemite: Ahwahnee Style [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This was the best video tour of Yosemite's famous Ahwahnee hotel and the surrounding park that I've ever seen!

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The video is incorrect. Miwoks were not the original Native Americans of Yosemite., July 10, 2006

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Walter - See all my reviews

This review is from: Yosemite: Ahwahnee Style [VHS] (VHS Tape)

That is biggest mistake there ever was. The biggest mistake in California Indian History. The original Native Americans of Yosemite were Paiutes.

The Miwoks were not the original American Indians of Yosemite, but they were the guides and scouts for Jim Savage and the Mariposa Battalion.

They were afraid to enter Yosemite Valley and called the original Ahwahneechees "the Killers" because they feared them.

I guess history was re-written to fit those who aided in those first non-Indians who entered Yosemite Valley.

The groups that became the Miwoks were actually the Indian miners for James Savage and other white miners. When James Savage was killed they cried "our white father is dead". That certainly wasn't Chief Tenaya's people. Since they disliked James Savage.

That is all documented in Lafayette H. Bunnell's book "The Discovery of the Yosemite". This video must is bogus.

Read that book instead and you will see the truth. That was the only book written by the only man to meet and write about Chief Tenaya and his band. Who were primarily Mono Paiutes and not Miwuks.

Those to aided the intruders were left to re-write history of Yosemite.