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30 1.Americanliterature—20thcentury—Historyandcriticism.
31 2.Natureinliterature. 3.Environmentalism—United
32 States—History—20thcentury. 4.Muir,John,
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5.Pastoralliterature,American—Historyandcriticism.
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6.Muir,John,1838–1914—Influence.
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7.Mountaineeringinliterature. 8.Ecocriticism.
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8 This bookhashadalongevolutionsinceeditorandpoetBarbaraRasfirst
9 challengedmetowriteitfortheUniversityofGeorgiaPressduringaCom-
10 munityandEnvironmentconferenceattheUniversityofNevada,Reno.I
11 hopetheenvironmentsthatinspireditaresufficientlyacknowledgedinthe
12 text,butthereisawonderfulcommunityoffriendsandscholarstothank
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14 FirstIwouldliketoacknowledgetheeditorsandpublishers,sinceearlier
15 versionsofsomepartsofchaptershaveappearedasfollows:Chapter2,in
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21 Perspective (New York: Peter Lang, 1999). Chapter 6, in O. Alan Weltzien,
22 ed.,TheLiteraryArtandActivismofRickBass(SaltLakeCity:Universityof
23 UtahPress,2001).Chapter9,intheMississippiQuarterly 55,no.1(Winter [-9],
24 2001–2).Chapter10,intheAlpineJournal 107(2002)andexcerptsintheJohn
25 MuirNewsletter12,no.4(Fall2002).
26 Second,thereareanumberofpeoplewhohavecontributedtothisbook
27 inarichvarietyofways.IthankagaintheGiacominofamilyforproviding
28 mewithsomuchmorethanahomefromwhichtofirstresearchJohnMuir
29 inCalifornia.Iespeciallywanttocelebratethecharacteristickindnessofthe
30 lateJillForrestGiacominowhosememorywilllongbecherishedbyallwho
31 knewher.Ialsosmileoftenatthememoryofthelateandmuchlamented
32 Fred Rue Jacobs who hosted me so warmly for research in the Hunting-
33 ton Library and the wilds of Bakersfield, California. I would also like to
34 acknowledgeKenWilsonofDiademandBâtonWicksforenthusiastically
35 agreeing to publish the two John Muir omnibus editions; conversations
36 withMichaelP.Branch,LouiseWestling,MichaelP.Cohen,PatrickD.Mur-
37 phy,ScottSlovic,LeoMarx,RichardKerridge,GregGarrard,JulianCooper,
38 Norman Elliott, Philip Butterworth; the organizers of conferences where
39 earlierversionsofsomeofthesechapterswerefirstpresented—RuthBlair,
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