An 1891 Trip to the Summit of Mineral King’s Saw Tooth Peak
Written by Jay O’Connell Philip Winser was a member of the Kaweah Co-Operative Colony. He had supported the socialist community experiment from Kent, England, finally joining the colony in February of 1891. After booking passage on the Cunarder Cephalonia from Liverpool to Boston, and a train ride across America, he made his was to Visalia and boarded the biweekly stage for Kaweah, unaware he was joining an endeavor that was limping along on it last days of viability. During the last year of the Kaweah Colony’s existence, after Sequoia National Park had been created and subsequently enlarged, effectively nullifying the