the john muir exhibit - writings - our national parks

Our National Parks

by John Muir

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Contents

• List of Illustrations
• Preface

1. The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West
2. The Yellowstone National Park
3. The Yosemite National Park
4. The Forests of the Yosemite Park
5. The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park
6. Among the Animals of the Yosemite
7. Among the Birds of the Yosemite
8. The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park
9. The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks
10. The American Forests

• Appendix
• Index

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List of Illustrations

[Woodcut from book cover]

• Sequoias, Mariposa Grove   [bigger]
• Forest Reserves and National Parks in Western United States. From a map furnished by the courtesy of the United States Geological Survey.   [bigger]
• Pavement of Basaltic Columns Worn by Glacial Action, Yosemite National Park   [bigger]
• Timber Line at Thousand Islet Lake, near Mr. Bitter, Yosemite National Park   [bigger]
• Azalea Thicket, Yosemite National Park   [bigger]
• One of the Kings River Fountains, Sierra Forest Reserve   [bigger]
• View from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park   [bigger]
• Yosemite Woods in Winter   [bigger]
• Tuolumne Cascade, Yosemite National Park   [bigger]
• Young Big Tree Felled for Shingles   [bigger]
• Loghouse of One Log, Giant Forest of the Kaweah   [bigger]
• Road through the Sequoias, Mariposa Grove   [bigger]

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Sequoias, Mariposa Grove (Page 134)

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Preface

In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild mountain forest reservations and parks, with a view to inciting the people to come and enjoy them, and get them into their hearts, that so at length their preservation and right use might be made sure.

Martinez, California
September, 1901

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Source

The electronic text for Our National Parks was acquired from the Library of Congress web server under the Evolution of the Conservation Movement section of their American Memory Web site. It has been corrected for the John Muir Exhibit.

Corrections were made in 1997 by webmaster from a copy of the c. 1909 reprint borrowed from the UCSD Library; the appendix (in the c. 1909 reprint) and illustrations were also added. The c. 1909 reprint, is not identified as such from the title pages, but can be identified from the dates in the appendix.

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