My first summer in the Sierra
By: by John Muir; with illus. from drawings made by the author in 1869 and from photoraphs by Herbert W. Gleason
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1911
Place of publication: Boston and; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Muir, John, 1838-1914; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)
Description: Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. One of the heroes of America's conservation movement, Muir deserves much of the credit for making the Yosemite Valley a protected national park and for alerting Americans to the need to protect this and other natural wonders. My first summer in the Sierra (1911) is based on Muir's original journals and sketches of his 1869 stay in the Sierras. Hired to supervise a San Joaquin sheep owner's flock at the headwaters of the Merced and Tulomne Rivers, Muir sets out for the mountains in June, returning to the Valley in September. He describes the flora and fauna of the mountains as well as his visits to Yosemite and his climbs of Mt. Hoffman and other peaks in the range.