For Throwback Thursday we’re throwing WAY back, to 1897. This photo shows Yosemite National Park Superintendent Capt. Alex Rogers standing next to a fire-scarred tree near Tioga Road in September, 1897.
Photo courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey.
TBT: Fire effects in Yosemite NP, 1897
If you look closely,it appears as if he has a cigarette/cigar in his left hand.
Yup. Thanks to marketing and cheap cigarettes for military personnel spread the addiction nicotine spread like wildfire.