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Internet Resources, Social Media, and Websites
While in years past we used to sponsor an Intenet Message Board / Forum, and a Listerv, these tools have become antiquated and little used. Accordingly for interactive particpation in the world of John Muir and his legacy, we recommend the John Muir Fans Facebook Group.
Social Media - Facebook
The 3 primary sites:
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John Muir Global Network
-A portal to celebrating and encouraging environmental protection through the inspiring life of John Muir, the founder of the worldwide conservation movement. Includes resources keyed to varied locations around the world and in the U.S.A., conference archives, and other unique items.
- Primary Sources for John Muir's writings - Browse or Search online - This guide provides Finding Aids for the University of the Pacific Holt-Atherton Library Special Collections and finding primary sources of John Muir's writings.
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"John Muir Exhibit",
John Muir Education Project,
Sierra Club California
(hosted on the Sierra Club's Web server).
by Harold W. Wood, Jr.
(
harold.wood@sierraclub.org
).
The John Muir Exhibit - online since 1994 - is a large
collection of resources pertaining to John Muir,
including many of Muir's writings, biographical materials, photos,
Educator's Guide to John Muir Day, guides to John Muir National Historic Site
and other geographic locations important to Muir, information about the John Muir Memorial Association, the John Muir Center at University of the Pacific,
and many other items, including this annotated bibliography.
The John Muir Exhibit is available via World-Wide Web at:
http://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/
.
Other Sites:
- Discover John Muir - Website hosted by the John Muir Trust and funded by Scottish Natural Heritage and Year of Natural Scotland.
- John Muir National Historic Site - National Park Service
- Holt-Atherton Digital Collections - University of the Pacific's collection of John Muir photographs, journals, and drawings.
- John Muir Papers - University of the Pacific's repository for the John Muir Papers.
- John Muir Memorial Association
- Friends of John Muir's Birthplace
- John Muir on My Hero: Earthkeepers by Harold W. Wood, Jr., John Muir Exhibit volunteer webmaster.
- Cornell University's Making of America Journal Collection - includes searchable database of scanned images of many publications which Muir wrote in such as Century, Harper's Scribner's, etc.
- Wikepedia, the Free Encyclopedia: Entry on John Muir
- Original manuscript letters of John Muir, 1861-1914, Wisconsin Historical Society
These 30 letters, totaling more than 100 pages, were written by Muir to five correspondents. Twenty are to his old friend Emily Pelton, with whose family he boarded in Prairie du Chien in 1860-61, or to her aunt Frances. Four other letters are to childhood friends from Wisconsin, James Whitehead and Milton Griswold. A few other letters of a routine business nature are also included. All but six of the letters have never been previously published in their entirety (though typed copies of most were included in Muir's manuscripts at the University of the Pacific).
- Articles and Manuscripts about John Muir and Conservation, Wisconsin Historical Society
Includes Recollections of John Muir in Prairie du Chien, 1860-61, Muir's younger brother recalls their boyhood, A visit to John Muir in his dorm room, ca. 1862
- Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles About John Muir, Wisconsin Historical Society, from its Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles Collection.
Includes approximately 17 articles from various Wisconsin newspapers, dated from 1915 to 1942, about Muir.
- John Muir's Botany - A photo gallery of close-ups of John Muir's botanical collections, (no longer online), previewing the book Nature's Beloved Son, Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy by Bonnie Johanna Gisel with photographs by Stephen Joseph (Berkeley, Heyday Books). (
- No. 2422 John Muir , feature in Engines of Our Ingenuity -Text and radio program about Muir as an engineer. from the University of Houston's School of Engineering. A podcast and streaming audio of this episode is available.
- The National Parks: America's Best Idea - John Muir - PBS
- Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental Science article "John Muir".
- California Digital Newspaper Collection - Digitized California newspapers since 1846 to the present - searchable
See also:
John Muir Organizations
- People are forming John Muir groups all over the world!
Restore Hetch Hetchy - includes articles by Muir and others, as well as photos and artwork of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, the valley Muir fought unsuccessfully to save from damming.
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