the john muir exhibit - writings - the story of my boyhood and youth

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

by John Muir

Contents

1. A Boyhood in Scotland
2. A New World
3. Life on a Wisconsin Farm
4. A Paradise of Birds
5. Young Hunters
6. The Ploughboy
7. Knowledge and Inventions
8. The World and the University

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Illustrations

• Boyhood home at Dunbar, Scotland
• Muir's sketch of Muir Lake and meadow
• First Wisconsin home, from a sketch by Muir
• Muir's sketch of Hickory Hill house
• Thermometer and self-setting sawmill
• Clock with star hand
• Barometer
• Desk
• Combined thermometer, hygrometer, barometer, and pyrometer

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Bibliographic Information

Copyright, 1912, 1913, by the Atlantic Monthly Company; 1913, by John Muir

Muir, John, 1838-1914.
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / John Muir.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913
LC Call number PS2447.M5 1916
Scanned by Dan E. Anderson, 1996

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