John Muir: Apostle of Nature

630 Pages·1996·2.84 MB·English

by  Thurman Wilkins

John Muir : Apostle of Nature Oklahoma
title:
Western Biographies ; V. 8
author: Wilkins, Thurman.
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin: 080612797X
print isbn13: 9780806127972
ebook isbn13: 9780585168999
language: English
Muir, John,--1838-1914, Naturalists--United
subject States--Biography, Conservationists--United
States--Biography.
publication date: 1996
lcc: QH31.M78W54 1996eb
ddc: 333.7/2/092
Muir, John,--1838-1914, Naturalists--United
subject: States--Biography, Conservationists--United
States--Biography.
Page i
John Muir
T O W B
HE KLAHOMA ESTERN IOGRAPHIES
R W. E , G E
ICHARD TULAIN ENERAL DITOR
Page iii
John Muir
Apostle of Nature
By Thurman Wilkins
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN AND LONDON
Page iv
By Thurman Wilkins
Clarence King: A Biography (New York, 1958; 2d edition, revised
and enlarged with the help of Caroline Lawson Hinkley, Albuquerque,
1988)
Thomas Moran: Artist of the Mountains (Norman, 1966)
Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People
(New York, 1970; 2d edition, revised, Norman, 1986)
John Muir: Apostle of Nature (Norman, 1995)
This book is published with the generous assistance of The
McCasland Foundation, Duncan, Oklahoma.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wilkins, Thurman.
John Muir: apostle of nature / by Thurman Wilkins.
p. cm.(Oklahoma western biographies ; v. 8)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN: 0-8061-2712-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Muir, John, 18381914. 2. NaturalistsUnited States
Biography. 3. ConservationistsUnited StatesBiography.
I. Title. II. Series.
QH31.M78W54 1995
333.7'2'092-dC20
[B]
95-11426
CIP
John Muir: Apostle of Nature is Volume 8 in The Oklahoma Western
Biographies.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and
durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book
Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc.
Copyright © 1995 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman,
Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved.
Manufactured in the U.S.A.
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Page v
For Sophie and Mary K
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations Page ix
Series Editor's Preface xi
Preface xiii
Prologue xvii
1 3
Dunbar Days
2 15
Fountain Lake and Hickory Hill
3 27
Madison Years
4 40
Canada and Indianapolis
5 47
The Thousand-Mile Walk
6 57
First Summer in the Sierra
7 66
Incomparable Valley
8 76
The Sage of Concord
9 81
Mountaineer-Glaciologist of the Sierra
10 98
"Studies in the Sierra"
11 113
King Sequoia
12 126
New Directions
13 136
First Trip to Alaska
14 144
Stickeen
15 152
The Cruise of the Corwin
16 159
Fruit Grower
17 169
Yosemite National Park
18 179
The Sierra Club
19 190
The National Forestry Commission
20 205
The Harriman-Alaska Expedition
21 211
Roosevelt, Round the World, and Recession
22 223
The Contest for Hetch Hetchy