Shirley Sargent (July 12, 1927 – December 3, 2004) was an historian of the Yosemite area in the United States.
Her father was a surveyor who helped rebuild the Tioga Road in Yosemite National Park, starting in 1936.
So she had the good fortune of spending her childhood as a self-described "tomboy" in Yosemite.
In 1961, she bought and built on Theodore Solomons' homesite in Foresta, California, which had only a fireplace surviving from a 1936 fire.
She called her home Flying Spur, but it burned in the 1990 Yosemite A-Rock Fire, which also destroyed her historical papers.