Resources for Grade 4
John Muir's California

Yosemite National Park

Shirley Sargent. John Muir In Yosemite. Flying Spur Press. 1971. A free leaflet about the park is also available from:

National Park Service
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite, California 95389

For Muir's classic description of his first ascent in 1872, see Edwin Way Teale's The Wilderness World of John Muir , pages. 246-250.
A booklet with historical illustrations reprinting Muir's 1880 Scribner's Monthly description of this climb is entitled "In the Heart of the California Alps", published by:

Outbooks
Box 2006
Olympic Valley, California 95730
(916) 583-5315

Also available from John Muir National Historic Site .

See Muir's description of his exciting experience in a wind-storm (December 1874) in Edwin Way Teale's The Wilderness World of John Muir, Houghton Mifflin, page 181.

See Muir's exciting description of the 1872 Inyo Earthquake, in Edwin Way Teale's The Wilderness World of John Muir, Houghton Mifflin, pages 165-169, taken from Muir's book Our National Parks.
A longer version may be found in Stetson's, The Wild Muir, pages 73-81, excerpted from Muir's The Yosemite.

For Muir's exciting account of his adventure atop Mount Shasta in an 1875 snowstorm, see Teale's The Wilderness World of John Muir, pages 251-265.
For an earlier, illustrated version, see the original account in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1877 September. (off-site link to archive.org)

"The Fight for Recession" of Yosemite Valley from the state to the federal government is described in Chapter 9 of John Muir by Eden Force.
Innumerable writings about Yosemite Valley today are available.
There are many on-line resources about Yosemite National Park .

Compare Sequoia trees (largest) to Coast Redwood trees (tallest). Free descriptive brochure available from:

National Park Service
Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park
Three Rivers, California 93721
Check your library for many other references.

Free descriptive brochure available from:

National Park Service
Muir Woods National Monument
Mill Valley, California 94941
Muir Woods by Jim Morely, Berkeley: Howell/North Books, 1968.

The definitive account of the campaign to protect Hetch Hetchy is in Holway Jones, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Sierra Club Books , 1965.
For a brief description explaining both the history and current issues, see article by Carl Pope in Sierra magazine, Nov-Dec, 1987.
For a full unit plan for this age group on the Hetch Hetchy controversy, past and present, see A Child's Place in the Environment , Unit 4, Lesson 13.
Websites:
History of Hetch Hetchy Valley
Restore Hetch Hetchy

Free descriptive brochure from:

National Park Service
John Muir National Historic Site
4202 Alhambra Ave.
Martinez, California 94553
Also available for a small charge from the Site is a 15 page booklet, John Muir National Historic Site by Ariel Rubbisow, with large color photographs of the Site.

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