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John Muir National Historic Site
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Books by John Muir. Read them all!

 

PICTURESQUE CALIFORNIA                             1888

 

MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA                           1894

 

OUR NATIONAL PARKS                                   1901

 

STICKEEN                                                    1909

 

E.H. HARRIMAN                                             1911

 

MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA                   1911

 

THE YOSEMITE                                             1912

 

THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH         1913

 

TRAVELS IN ALASKA                                      1915

 

A 1000-MILE WALK TO THE GULF                     1916

 

CRUISE OF THE CORWIN                                 1917

 

STEEP TRAILS                                              1918

 

 

 

The required reading for all rangers and volunteers at John Muir NHS is this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography by Linnie Marsh Wolfe: "Son of the Wilderness, The Life of John Muir".

 

The only book John Muir ever wrote for children is the story he told his two daughters around the dining room table. That story of a small black dog with a big curly tail and an even bigger heart is called: "Stickeen".

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Did You Know?
John Muir's father-in-law, Dr. John Strentzel, came to California in the Gold Rush of '49. Already a medical doctor, he became a ferryman, a farmer, a hotel & general store manager, and a winemaker. Dr. Strentzel had exhibited award winning wines as early as 1861.
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