John Muir Writings

My First Summer in the Sierra

by John Muir (1911)

Contents

1. Through the Foothills with a Flock of Sheep
2. In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced
3. A Bread Famine
4. To the High Mountains
5. The Yosemite
6. Mount Hoffman and Lake Tenaya
7. A Strange Experience
8. The Mono Trail
9. Bloody Canon and Mono Lake
10. The Tuolumne Camp
11. Back to the Lowlands

Liberty Cap, with Vernal and Nevada Falls

With Illustrations from Drawings made by the Author in 1869 and from Photographs by Herbert W. Gleason

Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston and New York

The Riverside Press Cambridge
Published June 1911

Copyright, 1911, by John Muir
All Rights Reserved

To
The Sierra Club of California,
Faithful Defender of
the People’s Playgrounds

Illustrations in the Text

Plates

Reproduced from photographs by Herbert W. Gleason, several of which were taken while in the company of the author, who is seen in the one facing page 216.

• Liberty Cap, with Vernal and Nevada Falls (Frontispiece)
• White Mariposa Tulip (Calochortus albus)
• A Forest Brook
• A Sugar Pine
• A Mountain Stream
• A Glacial Boulder
• Thunder-storm over Yosemite
• Foliage and Cones of Sierra Hemlock (Tsuga Mertensiana)
• Magnificent Silver Firs (Mr. Muir in foreground)
• Tuolumne Meadow from Cathedral Peak
• Sierra Range from Mono Crater
• In Tuolumne Sequoia Grove

From sketches made by the author in 1869.

• Horseshoe Bend, Merced River
• On Second Bench. Edge of the Main Forest Belt, above Coulterville, near Greeley’s Mill
• Camp, North Fork of the Merced
• Mountain Live Oak (Quercus chrysolepis), Eight Feet in Diameter
• Sugar Pine
• Douglas Squirrel Observing Brother Man
• Divide Between the Tuolumne and the Merced, below Hazel Green
• Track of Singing Dancing Grasshopper in the Air over North Dome
• Abies magnifica (Mt. Clark, Top of South Dome, Mt. Starr King)
• Illustrating Growth of New Pine from Branch Below the Break of Axis of Snow-crushed Tree
• Approach of Dome Creek to Yosemite
• Junipers in Tenaya Canon
• View of Tenaya Lake Showing Cathedral Peak
• One of the Tributary Fountains of the Tuolumne Canon Waters, on the North Side of the Hoffman Range
• Glacier Meadow, on the Headwaters of the Tuolumne, 9500 Feet above the Sea
• Mono Lake and Volcanic Cones, Looking South
• Highest Mono Volcanic Cones (near view)
• One of the Highest Mt. Ritter Fountains
• Glacier Meadow Strewn with Moraine Boulders, 10,000 Feet above the Sea (near Mt. Dana)
• Front of Cathedral Peak
• View of Upper Tuolumne Valley

Bibliographic Information

Muir, John (1838-1914). My first summer in the Sierra (Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin company, 1911). vii, 353 p., front., illus., plates. 21 cm. Illustrations from drawings made by the author in 1869 and from photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. Library of Congress Call Number F868.S5 M9. LCCN 11014183.

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