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Contents Foreword Introduction Part One: The Visionary Inventor Knowledge and Inventions, from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth The World and the University, from The Story of My Boyhood and Youth Part Two: The Wandering Minstrel Kentucky Forests and Caves and Through the Cumberland Mountains from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf The River Country of Georgia, Through Florida’s Swamps and Forests, and across Florida to Cedar Keys, from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf Part Three: The Nature Scribe and Rhapsode In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced from My First Summer in the Sierra The Mono Indians of Bloody Canon from My First Summer in the Sierra A Near View of the High Sierra, from The Mountains of California A Windstorm in the Forest, from The Mountains of California A Yosemite Earthquake from The Yosemite Yosemite Falls at Midnight, from The Life and Letters of John Muir Nut Time in Squirrelville, from The Life and Letters of John Muir Yosemite Glaciers, New York Tribune, Dec. 5, 1871 Indian Tribes in the Yosemite Valley from The Yosemite Part Four: The Global Adventurer Eskimos and Walrus, from The Cruise of the Corwin Stickeen vs. the Glacier, from Stickeen Voyage to East Africa, from John Muirs Last Journey Part Five: The Planet Steward Gods First Temples: How Shall We Preserve Our Forests? Sacramento Daily Union, Feb. 5, 1876 The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West, Atlantic Monthly, Aug. 1897 Thoughts upon National Parks (ca. 1895), from John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir Sources Major Works of John Muir About the Editor
