My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)

Manuscript specimen

Fragment of page 15 from a draft of chapter 7, page 151: "bronzing the grasses, + ripening the creeping heathworts along the banks of the stream to [a] reddish purple + crimson, while the flowers vanish [disappear], all save the goldenrods + a few daisies that continue to bloom on unscathed until the beginning of snowy winter. In still night the grass panicles"

Added images

• Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 122): The North and South Domes

• Facing page 6: A Flock of Sheep on the Road.

• Facing page 20: California Azalea. [A. occidentalis]

• Facing page 26: California Twining Lily.

• Facing page 36: Cumulus Clouds in the High Sierra.

• Facing page 40: A California Lizard.

• Facing page 50: Sugar Pine Cones.

• Facing page 58: An Old Indian Woman and Acorn Cache, in the Yosemite Valley.

• Facing page 90: Forest near Crane Flat.

• Facing page 100: A Glaciated Pavement.

• Facing page 110: Junipers above Lake Merced.

• Facing page 116: The Half-Dome.

• Facing page 130: The North Dome.

• Facing page 146: Cathedral Peak.

• Facing page 148: Summit of Mt. Hoffman.

• Facing page 152: White-bark Pine, appressed.

• Facing page 162: Two-leaved Pines.

• Facing page 166: Young Silver Firs.

• Facing page 182b: The Liberty Cap.

• Facing page 198: The Tuolumne Meadows, from Juniper Crest.

• Facing page 202: Delaney Meadow. [The meadow where Mr. Muir spent six weeks in the summer of 1869, overseeing sheep-herding. Since named after Mr. Delaney, the owner of the sheep.]

• Facing page 214: Bloody Canyon.

• Facing page 224: Moraine Lake. [Now called Walker Lake]

• Facing page 242: Mammoth Mountain. [Kuna Crest]

• Facing page 248: Clumps of Albicaulis Pine on the Slopes of Cathedral Peak.

• Facing page 250: Cassiope.