Books by John Muir

We provide the complete text of each book in HTML, organized by chapter, usually with the original illustrations. The following list is arranged by date of publication.

Picturesque California and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, from Alaska to Mexico (1888 - 1890). - Complete text of Muir's writings in this book he edited.
The Mountains of California (1894).
Our National Parks (1901).
Stickeen (Illustrated overview of Muir's celebrated story of an adventure with a dog on a glacier)
- "Stickeen: The Story of a Dog" , by John Muir -- the 1909 originally published version, with annotations (file size = 54 K)
- "Stickeen: An Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier" , by John Muir -- exerpted from Travels in Alaska
My First Summer in the Sierra (1911).
- As first published in the The Atlantic Monthly in 1911. (off-site link)
Edward Henry Harriman (1911)
The Yosemite , by John Muir (1912).
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913).
Letters to a Friend (1915) - Letters written by Muir to his mentor, Jeanne Carr.
Travels in Alaska (1915)
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf , by John Muir (1916).
The Cruise of the Corwin (1917)
Steep Trails (1919)
The Life and Letters of John Muir, by William Frederic Badè (1924) - The full text of this two-volume book contains thousands of Muir's letters and previously unpublished writings, along with Badè's biography.
John of the Mountains (1938) (edited by Linnie Marsh Wolfe) (book dust jacket)
Studies in the Sierra (1950 reprint of 1874 serial)

The Writings of John Muir, Manuscript Edition (1916, Houghton Mifflin) - Digital Facsimile edition by University of Georgia Libraries (off-site link)

Table of Contents
v. 1. The story of my boyhood and youth, and A thousand-mile walk to the gulf.
v. 2. My first summer in the Sierra.
v. 3. Travels in Alaska.
v. 4-5. The mountains of California.
v. 6. Our national parks.
v. 7. The cruise of the Corwin.
v. 8. Steep trails.
v. 9-10. The life and letters of John Muir.

Digital Editions

The Internet Archive website has most of Muir's writings available in digital format, for reading in various ebook fomats - for Kindle, iPad or iPhones, in various formats including epub, pdf, and numerous other formats. The online format viewed from a web browser presents an image of the actual book, as originally published, as well as the text.

See also John Muir's Literary Science on The Public Domain Review website for PDF copies of Muir's writings.

Writings of John Muir - Articles, books, letters, tributes to people, quotes, meditations, and selected passages.

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