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The Life and Letters of

John Muir

by William Frederic Badè

1923 and 1924

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Contents

	Preface
	Volume I
I.	The Ancestral Background
II.	Life on a Wisconsin Farm 1849-1860
III.	As a Questioner at the Tree of Knowledge
IV.	The Sojourn in Canada 1864-1866
V.	From Indiana to California 1866-1868
VI.	Following the Sheep 1868-1869
VII.	First Yosemite Years 1869-1870
VIII.	Yosemite, Emerson, and the Sequoias
IX.	Persons and Problems
X.	Yosemite and Beyond 1872-1873
	Volume II
XI.	On Widening Currents 1873-1875
XII.	"The World Needs the Woods" 1875-1878
XIII.	Nevada, Alaska, and a Home 1878-1880
XIV.	The Second Alaska Trip and the Search for the Jeannette 1880-1881
XV.	Winning a Competence 1881-1891
XVI.	Trees and Travel 1891-1897
XVII.	Unto the Last I. 1897-1905 II. 1905-1914
XVIII.	His Public Service

Illustrations

• Sketch of John Muir's cabin at the base of Yosemite Falls (chapter 7)
• Pine-crested summit above Yosemite Valley (chapter 8)
• John Muir's home in a mill in Yosemite Valley (chapter 8)
• John Muir 1890 (frontispiece, volume II)
• Louie Wanda Strentzel (Mrs. John Muir) (chapter 13)
• Self Portrait of John Muir in his letter of Feb. 23, 1887 to Miss Janet Douglass Moores (chapter 15)
• The Upper Ranch Home of John Muir about 1890 Wanda Muir on the Porch (chapter 16)
• Shishaldin Volcano, Unimak Island, Alaska (chapter 17)
• Wapama Falls (1700 feet) in Hetch-Hetch Valley (chapter 17)
• Map of Yosemite Valley, 1972. From Samuel Kneeland's Wonders of Yosemite (Boston, 1873). (Not published in Life and letters).

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The Life and Letters of

John Muir

by

William Frederic Badè

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
MDCCCCXXIV

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Copyright, 19243 by Houghton Mifflin Company
All Rights Reserved
The Riverside Press
Cambridge, Masschussetts
Printed in the U.S.A.

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