The Life and Letters of

John Muir

by William Frederic Badè

1924

Contents

Preface

Volume I

I. The Ancestral Background

II. Life on a Wisconsin Farm 1849-1860

III. As a Questioner at the Tree of Knowledge

IV. The Sojourn in Canada 1864-1866

V. From Indiana to California 1866-1868

VI. Following the Sheep 1868-1869

VII. First Yosemite Years 1869-1870

VIII. Yosemite, Emerson, and the Sequoias

IX. Persons and Problems

X. Yosemite and Beyond 1872-1873

Volume II

XI. On Widening Currents 1873-1875

XII. "The World Needs the Woods" 1875-1878

XIII. Nevada, Alaska, and a Home 1878-1880

XIV. The Second Alaska Trip and the Search for the Jeannette 1880-1881

XV. Winning a Competence 1881-1891

XVI. Trees and Travel 1891-1897

XVII. Unto the Last
I. 1897-1905
II. 1905-1914

XVIII. His Public Service

Illustrations

Sketch of John Muir's cabin at the base of Yosemite Falls (chapter 7)
Pine-crested summit above Yosemite Valley (chapter 8)
John Muir's home in a mill in Yosemite Valley (chapter 8)
John Muir 1890 (frontispiece, volume II)
Louie Wanda Strentzel (Mrs. John Muir) (chapter 13)
Self Portrait of John Muir in his letter of Feb. 23, 1887 to Miss Janet Douglass Moores (chapter 15)
The Upper Ranch Home of John Muir about 1890 Wanda Muir on the Porch (chapter 16)
Shishaldin Volcano, Unimak Island, Alaska (chapter 17)
Wapama Falls (1700 feet) in Hetch-Hetch Valley (chapter 17)
Map of Yosemite Valley, 1972. From Samuel Kneeland's Wonders of Yosemite (Boston, 1873). (Not published in Life and letters).

The Life and Letters of

John Muir

by

William Frederic Badè

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
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Copyright, 1924, by Houghton Mifflin Company
All Rights Reserved
The Riverside Press
Cambridge, Masschussetts
Printed in the U.S.A.

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