John Muir Writings
The Mountains of California
by John Muir (1894)
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The Sierra Nevada
1
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The Glaciers
20
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The Snow
36
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A Near View of the High Sierra
48
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The Passes
74
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The Glacier Lakes
98
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The Glacier Meadows
125
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The Forests
139
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The Douglas Squirrel
226
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A Wind-Storm in the Forests
244
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The River Floods
258
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Sierra Thunder-Storms
271
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The Water-Ouzel
276
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The Wild Sheep
300
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In the Sierra Foot-Hills
325
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The Bee-Pastures
338
The Mountains of California
By
John Muir
New York
The Century Co.
1894
Hoofed Locusts.
Copyright, 1894, by The Century Co.
The De Vinne Press.
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Hoofed Locusts
Frontispiece
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Mount Tamalpais—North of the Golden Gate
5
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Mount Shasta, Looking Southwest
13
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Mount Hood
19
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Mount Rainier from Paradise Valley — Nisqually Glacier
25
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Map of the Yosemite Valley
[bigger, 90K]
67
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Map of the Yosemite Valley, Showing Present Reservation Boundary
[bigger, 110K]
77
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View of the Mono Plain from the Foot of Bloody Cañon
97
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Lake Tenaya, One of the Yosemite Fountains
102
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The Death of a Lake
107
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Lake Starr King
119
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View in the Sierra Forest
141
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Edge of the Timber Line on Mount Shasta
143
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View in the Main Pine Belt of the Sierra Forest
145
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Nut Pine
147
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The Grove form [Pinus tuberculata]
149
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Lower Margin of the Main Pine Belt, Showing Open Character of Woods
151
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Sugar Pine on Exposed Ridge
157
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Young Sugar Pine Beginning to Bear Cones
160
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Forest of Sequoia, Sugar Pine, and Douglas Spruce
161
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Pinus Ponderosa
164
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Silver Pine 210 Feet High
166
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Incense Cedar in Its Prime
171
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Forest of Grand Silver Firs
172
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View of Forest of the Magnificent Silver Fir
175
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Silver-Fir Forest Growing on Moraines of the Hoffman and Tenaya Glaciers
177
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Juniper, or Red Cedar
205
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Storm-Beaten Hemlock Spruce, Forty Feet High
208
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Group of Erect Dwarf Pines
212
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A Dwarf Pine
214
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Oak Growing Among Yellow Pines
217
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Track of Douglas Squirrel Once Down and Up a Pine-Tree When Showing Off
to a Spectator
231
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Seeds, Wings, and Scale of Sugar Pine
234
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Trying the Bow
243
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A Wind-Storm in the California Forests
245
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Water-Ouzel Diving and Feeding
277
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One of the Late-Summer Feeding-Grounds of the Ouzel
285
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Ouzel Entering a White Current
287
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The Ouzel at Home
293
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Yosemite Birds, Snow-Bound at the Foot of Indian Cañon
297
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Snow-Bound on Mount Shasta
306
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Head of the Merino Ram
309
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Head of Rocky Mountain Wild Sheep
311
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Crossing a Cañon Stream
314
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Wild Sheep Jumping Over a Precipice
319
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Indians Hunting Wild Sheep
321
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A Bee-Ranch in Lower California
341
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Wild Bee Garden
357
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In the San Gabriel Valley. — White Sage
365
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A Bee-Ranch on a Spur of the San Gabriel Range. — Cardinal Flower
369
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Wild Buckwheat. — A Bee-Ranch in the Wilderness
371
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A Bee-Pasture on the Moraine Desert. — Spanish Bayonet
375
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A Bee-Keeper’s Cabin
379
Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to
Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first
came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the
Yosemite Valley.
After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to
California in 1880 and made the state his home.
One of the heroes of America’s conservation movement,
Muir deserves much of the credit for
making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting
Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders.
The Mountains of California (1894) is his book length tribute to the
beauties of the Sierra.
He recounts not only his own journeys by foot through the
mountains, glaciers, forests, and valleys, but also the geological and
natural history of the region, ranging from the history of glaciers, the
patterns of tree growth, and the daily life of animals and insects.
While Yosemite naturally receives great attention,
Muir also expounds on less well known beauty spots.
Muir, John, 1838-1914.
The Mountains of California
(New York: The Century co. 1894).
xiii+381 p. front., illus. maps.20 cm.
Library of Congress Call Number F866.M95.
LCCN rc 01-000874.
Translated by Dan Anderson from SGML from the
Library of Congress
:
“The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920”
,
American Memory Collection.
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