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Muir's Contemporaries
(or earlier writers) who Influenced Him
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William
Badé
published
Muir's papers
John + Ann
Bidwell
civic
leader friends
Francis Fisher Browne
Author and editor of literary periodicals
James
Bryce
British
statesman friend
Robert
Burns
John Muir's favorite poet
John
Burroughs
nature writer friend
Jeanne
Carr
mentor
from University of Wisconsin
Galen
Clark
early
Yosemite park guide
William
Colby
started
Sierra Club "High Trips"
Charles Darwin
famed biologist who first published the theory of evolution
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Muir loved his writing
Ah Fong
John Muir's Chinese cook
Asa
Gray
Father of American Botany
Edward
Harriman
railroad magnate supporter of Muir
Sir
Joseph Hooker
famous
British botanist
Robert
Underwood Johnson
published
Muir's Yosemite articles
Charles
Keeler
charter
member of Sierra Club
William
Keith
nature
painter friend
William
Kent
donated
land for Muir Woods
Joseph
LeConte
University
of CA professor
Joseph
"Little Joe" N. LeConte
charter
member of Sierra Club
Theodore Parker Lukens
Pasadena City councilman, realtor, banker, and forester
Charles Lummis
Journalist, author, museum founder, photographer, folklorist, and ethnographer
Robert B.
Marshall
charter member of Sierra Club and National Park leader
Edmond
Meany
Washington
Mountaineer's club founder
Horace McFarland
Civic and Park Campaigner
C.
Hart Merriam
biological
survey friend
Catharine Merrill
Teacher, University professor, author and friend of Muir
Enos
Mills
Father of
Rocky Mountain National Park
Harriet
Monroe
Poet
who wrote tributes to Muir
Daniel Muir
Muir's father
Helen
Muir
Muir's youngest
daughter
John Muir - Not our Naturalist
Unrelated people with the same name
Louie
Muir
Muir's beloved
wife
Wanda
Muir
Muir's oldest daughter
Henry
Fairfield Osborn
Director, American
Museum of Natural History
Edward
Taylor Parsons
early Sierra Club leader
Marion
Randall Parsons
First woman on Sierra Club board of directors
Gifford
Pinchot
founder
of U.S. Forest Service
Israel
Raymond
argued
in favor of Yosemite
Theodore
Roosevelt
the "Conservation President"
Charles
Sargent
noted botanist and chairman
of Forestry Commission
Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
Alaska Explorer, author, conservation advocate, and National Geographic Magazine's first official female board member.
Theodore
Solomons
pioneer
of the John Muir Trail
William
Steel
founded
Oregon "Mazamas" mountaineering club
John Strentzel
Father-in-law
of John Muir and noted horticulturalist
John Swett
the father of public school education in California
Henry David Thoreau
With Emerson, one of Muir's major literary influences
William + Catherine
Trout
Muir's Canadian friends
Philemon
van Trump
Mount Rainier climber and conservationist
Josiah
Whitney
geologist who disagreed with Muir
S.
Hall Young
wrote
"Alaska Days" with John Muir
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