What's New or Improved in 1999

1999 November 28

available on Photographs of John Muir

Added J ohn Muir seated in Yosemite - Photo taken by Professor Francis M. Fritz in 1907.
Added John Burroughs with John Muir

1999 November 22

available on Life of John Muir, Places Important to John Muir, and Portraits in Art and Sculpture

Added John Muir- Address Delivered by Charles R. Van Hise upon the Occasion of the Unveiling of a Bronze Bust of John Muir by the Sculptor C. S. Pietro at the University of Wisconsin, - December 6, 1916 (offsite link)

1999 November 21

available on Life of John Muir

Added John Muir's Clocks from Wisconsin Electronic Reader (offsite link)

available on Annotated Bibliography

Added Travels in Alaska Audio Book and Real Audio to Audio
Added Son of the Wilderness Audio Book to Audio
Added John Muir Tribute CD to Audio and to Music section.

available on Life of John Muir

Added "Pillars of the Earth" and "Wisconsin's Dazzling Dozen" (offsite links) to Tributes to John Muir.

1999 November 11

available on Writings by John Muir

Added Five Letters by John Muir to botanist Sir Joseph Hooker from Kew Gardens Archives
Added link to a Wind-Storm in the Forests under "Selected Passages by John Muir"
Added link to Canadian Friends of John Muir's Calypso Orchid Page onThe Calypso Borealis by John Muir.

1999 November 8

available on John Muir Memorial Association and Tributes to John Muir

Added Presentation by Graham White at the Dinner Dance Fundraiser for the proposed Visitor and Education Center

1999 November 6

available on Pictures and Portraits in Art and Sculpture

Added Catalog of American Portraits John Muir Listing

1999 October 31

available on John Muir Memorial Association

Added John Muir Tribute CD, with album cover and Real Audio and MP3 sound clips
Added Membership Application Form
Upgraded John Muir Memorial Association portion of website with photos and consistent background.

available on Songs about John Muir

Added link to new John Muir Tribute CD
Upgraded Muir Power to You by Bill Oliver with color photos and improved Real Audio G2 and MP3 sound clips.
Upgraded Creation's Dawn by Barry Hertz with Real Audio G2 and MP3 sound clips.
Upgraded Range of Light by Walkin' Jim Stolz with Real Audio G2 and MP3 sound clips.

1999 October 4

available on Portraits in Art and Sculpture

Replaced Portrait of John Muir by Bruce Wolfe
Replaced Picture of Statue of John Muir as a Boy in Dunbar
Added Portrait of John Muir by Orlando Rouland from the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Added Street Banner of John Muir in Dunbar, Scotland

1999 September 16

available on Home Page, Collectibles, and Tributes

Added new feature: John Muir Stamps and First Day Covers
- 1964 Stamp and First Day Covers
- 1998 Stamp and First Day Covers

1999 September 14

available on John Muir Memorial Association, John Muir National Historic Site, and Related Resources

Added John Muir National Historic Site Capital Campaign Fund (offsite link)

1999 August 27

Added Upcoming Events to Navigation Bar on Home Page.

available on Lee Stetson Touring Schedule and Upcoming Events

Added Spirit of Muir Lives on at Visalia Public Library

1999 August 23

available on Portraits in Art and Sculpture

Added Wax Figure of John Muir at Edinburgh Art Centre

1999 August 22

available on News and Upcoming Events

Added September 10 and 11, 1999 - Lee Stetson at Visalia, California Public Library
Added September 24, 1999 - The Harvest Dinner Dance in Pleasant Hill, California.
Added September 25 - Ranch Days - at John Muir National Historic Site

available on John Muir National Historic Site

Updated telephone Area Code for John Muir National Historic Site from (510) to (925)

1999 August 16

available on Writings by John Muir

Added The Cruise of the Corwin by John Muir (1917) - full text of this book with original photographs.

1999 August 15

available on John Muir Bibliography, Notable Book Chapters Featuring John Muir

Added listing and annotation for Stanley, Phillis M. "John Muir: Sierra Club Founder" in American Environmental Heroes (Springfield, N.J., Enslow Publishers Inc., 1998).

1999 August 13

available on The Life and Contributions of John Muir and on Writings by John Muir

Added The Life and Letters of John Muir by William Frederic Badè (1924) - full text of this two-volume book.

1999 June 12

available on Films and Videos

Added description of "The John Muir Trail," a Production of Earth Images, filmed, edited, and written by Lee Terkelsen.

available on The Boyhood of John Muir Video,

Added links to Florentine Films new website.

1999 May 31

available on Writings of John Muir

Added full text of Muir's short book, Edward Henry Harriman

1999 May 30

available on Places Named for John Muir

Added item and description for Muir Rock in Kings Canyon National Park.
Added description for Muir Country Park, Dunbar, Scotland.
Added description for Muir House (birthplace), Dunbar, Scotland.
Added historic postcard view of Muir Glacier.

1999 May 16

available on Songs About John Muir

Added The Ballad of John Muir by Patrick Michael Karnahan
Added Lyrics to Ballad of John Muir
Added 60 - second sound clip in Real AudioG2 format of the Ballad of John Muir

1999 May 9

available on Book Reviews

Added My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir, Book Review by Marion Randall Parsons
Added The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, by John Muir, Book Review by Marion Randall Parsons
Added The Wilderness World of John Muir, Edited by Edwin Way Teale, Book Review by Anthony Netroy
Added The Yosemite by John Muir, Book Review by Marion Randall Parsons

1999 April 26

available on A Geography of John Muir

Added World Image Map (50 K image map)
Added U.S.A. - Canada Image Map (34 K image map)

available on Places Important to John Muir

Added Cuba
Added Florida
Added Georgia
Added Indiana
Added Kentucky
Added Tennessee

1999 April 24

available on People Important to John Muir

Added Louie Strentzel Muir (Muir's wife) Biography by Steve and Patty Pauly
Added Louie Strentzel Muir Chronology by Steve and Patty Pauly

1999 April 11

avaiable onPortraits in Art and Sculpture"

Added Photo of Sculpture of John Muir as a Boy in Dunbar, Scotland

available on Writings of John Muir

"Damming Hetch Hetchy" , excerpt from Muir's Unpublished Journals, c. 1913.

1999 April 4

available on Bibliographic Resources

Added new book, Stickeen : John Muir and the Brave Little Dog , by John Muir as retold by Donnell Rubay; illustrated by Christopher Canyon:
- Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Children's Books.
- Book Jacket Summary - with Photo of Cover
- Publisher's Press Release - with Photo of Cover

Added John Duryea performs "Readings from John Muir", (audiocassette) accompanied by Joan McMillin's piano music to:
- Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Audio
- Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Music
Updated and corrected Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Internet Resources.

1999 March 28

Repaired broken server side includes for Chronology of Important Events in the Life of John Muir and re-named file.
Converted all backgrounds except John Muir Day Study Guide to white.

1999 March 22

Repaired broken footer server side includes for top-level documents in each category/subdirectory.

1999 March 15

available on Bibliographic Resources

Added references to three additional articles (by Kevin Downing, Edward Heidig, and Michael B. Smith) to Periodicals Section of John Muir Bibliography, including links to off-site sources for downloading these articles as well as article by Gerald Parshall.
Replaced 58 files with broken server-side include footers with new footer

1999 March 10

available on Bibliograhic Resources

Repaired broken server-side includes and repaired links to re-named documents

1999 March 8

available on Life and Contributions of John Muir

Added Deutsch - German Biography
Added Español - Spanish Biography
Added Français - French Biography
Added Japaniizu - Japanese (JIS or EUC encoded) Biograaphy
Repaired broken server-side includes, replaced long file names with short file names, replaced background to white for entire /life/ subdirectory.

available on Alphabetical Index

Repaired broken server-side includes and repaired links to re-named documents

1999 February 22

Repaired top-level server-side includes.

available on Writings of John Muir:

Added "The Hetch Hetchy Valley," by John Muir, Boston Weekly Transcript, March 25, 1873. (Muir's first essay about Hetch Hetchy - quite different from other Hetch Hetchy writings.)
Added "The Hetch-Hetchy Valley," by John Muir, Sierra Club Bulletin January, 1908. (Later revised and included as Chapter 16 of Muir's 1912 book, The Yosemite.)

available on Songs about John Muir:

Added "The Range of Light" by Walkin' Jim Stoltz

available on John Muir Memorial Association:

Added Upcoming Events

1999 February 7

Due to web server problems with server side includes, implemented temporary frames interface to aid in navigation.

Added new Frameset page as the John Muir Exhibit Home Page
Added new Introductory Home Page
Renamed old index.html page to index_noframes.html to support browsers which do not support frames
Added Organizations
Added Tributes
Added Website Resources

1999 February 5

Replaced Table of Contents and repaired several broken links resulting from server side includes failure on Bibliographic Resources.

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