Background
Holway R. Jones was a librarian at the University of California,
Berkeley (1951-1963) and later at the University of Oregon (1963-1982). He held
many offices in the Sierra Club between 1959 and 1978, serving as Associate
Secretary (1959-1960), a member of the Board of Directors (1973-1976), and as
"Fifth Officer" (1974-1976). Jones gathered the materials in this collection
for use in writing John Muir and the Sierra Club: The Battle for Yosemite
(1965).