![]() ![]() "California as I Saw It:" First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849-1900. Hoffman and other peaks in the range.īoston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1911.Īlso available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. He describes the flora and fauna of the mountains as well as his visits to Yosemite and his climbs of Mt. 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. ![]() My first summer in the Sierra (1911) is based on Muir's original journals and sketches of his 1869 stay in the Sierras. One of the heroes of America's conservaton 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. After work in Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, he returned to California in 1880 and made the state his home. ![]() He first came to California in 1868 and devoted six years to the study of the Yosemite Valley. Famed naturalist John Muir (1838-1914) came to Wisconsin as a boy and studied at the University of Wisconsin. ![]()
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