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The Cruise of the Corwin: Journal of the Arctic Expedition of 1881 in Search of De Long and the Jeannette by John Muir edited by William Frederic Badè (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Travels in Alaska by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment from a draft of chapter 7, page 148: "+ looking more nearly you may trace the branching of their fairy shining stems, + note the marvelous beauty of their [memorable?] flowers; the glumes + pales exquisitely penciled, + the yellow dangling stamens + feathery pistils. Beneath the lowest leaves of the grasses" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 58): A Glacial Fiord • Facing page 14: Islands in the Inside Passage to Alaska. • Facing page 20: In Grenville Channel. • Facing page 32: An Indian Totem Pole at Wrangell. • Facing page 36: Alaskan Indians in Canoes. • Facing page 86: Luxuriance of Coastal Vegetation. • Facing page 90: Alaskan Chief and Totem-Pole at Wrangell. • Facing page 114: The Alaskan Coast Range, from a summit near Glenora Peak. • Facing page 122: Devil's-Club. • Facing page 128: Glacial Ice-Caves. • Facing page 148: Forest bordering a Stream. • Facing page 174: In Glacier Bay. • Facing page 176: Sunset in Glacier Bay. • Facing page 192: Stranded Bergs in Glacier Bay. • Facing page 218: Overlooking Lynn Canal. • Facing page 238: Alaska Indians employed at a Salmon Cannery. • Facing page 258: Alaska Salmon Crowding up Stream. • Facing page 260: Floating Icebergs. • Facing page 288: The Taku Fiord. • Facing page 290: The Taku Glacier. • Facing page 312: Dundas Bay. • Facing page 318: The Muir Glacier. • Facing page 330: Steamer "Queen." [Native Indian canoes in the foreground] • Facing page 334: The Norris Glacier. • Facing page 336: Early Morning in Glacier Bay. • Facing page 340: Ice-Cliff at the Foot of Muir Glacier.
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The Life and Letters of John Muir: Volume I by William Frederic Badè (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 11 from a draft of chapter 7, page 149: "leaf + flower seems to have its winged representative overhead. Dragonflies soot in vigorous zigzags through the dancing swarms + a rich profusion of butterflies - the leguminosae of the insect kingdom make a fine addition to the general showy plants. Many of these at this elevation are a comparatively small + as yet but little known." Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 180): Sycamores on the San Felipe • Facing page 50: Hickories and Oaks on the Hickory Hill Farm. [1915] • Facing page 98: Bluffs along the Mississippi at McGregor, Iowa. • Facing page 102: The Wisconsin River at Portage, Wis. • Facing page 112: Across Lake Mendota toward the Buildings of the University of Wisconsin. [1915] • Facing page 158: The Meadow at Fountain Lake. [1915] • Facing page 170: The Hodgson Garden at Cedar Keys. [From an old photograph taken in 1867] • Facing page 178: An Orchard in Santa Clara Valley. • Facing page 182: Calochortus (Mariposa Tulip). • Facing page 198: Mt. Hoffman from Lake Tenaya. • Facing page 204: Yosemite Valley in Winter. • Facing page 230: The Glacier on Mt. Lyell. • Facing page 232: The Brown Cone of Mt. Dana. • Facing page 260: Emerson's House at Concord, Mass. • Facing page 298: Lake Tenaya, looking south. • Facing page 310: Hetch Hetchy Valley. • Facing page 326: An Earthquake Talus at the Foot of El Capitan, Yosemite Valley. • Facing page 328: The Upper Yosemite Fall. • Facing page 336: Sentinel Rock. • Facing page 340: "Bossy Cumuli" in the Sierra. • Facing page 364: The Royal Arches. [From near the point where Mr. Muir built his cabin in 1872] • Facing page 368: Sierra Primrose (Primula suffrutescens) on the summit of Clouds' Rest. • Facing page 380: Lewisia pygmaea (Alpine Bitter-root). • Facing page 388: Across the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin. • Facing page 392: In the Kern River Canyon. • Facing page 396: In the Great Tuolumne Canyon. • Facing page 398: Portrait of Mr. Muir in 1873.
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The Life and Letters of John Muir: Volume II by William Frederic Badè (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 7 from a draft of chapter 7, page 146: "forest shadows upon a delightful purple level, lying smooth + free in the light like a lake. This is a glacier meadow. It is about a mile + a half long by a quarter of a mile wide. The trees come pressing forward all around in close serried ranks + plant their feet exactly on its margin, holding them-" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 360): Wapama Falls (1700 feet) in Hetch-Hetchy Valley • Facing page 12: "Sand Embroidery." • Facing page 28: Merced Lake. [Formerly Shadow Lake] • Facing page 56: Early Snow in Yosemite. • Facing page 80: A Sierra Forest. • Facing page 88: Canyon of the South Fork of Kings River. • Facing page 100b: Lake Tahoe. • Facing page 104: On the Nevada Desert. • Facing page 110: In the Southern Utah Desert. • Facing page 144: Victoria from the Harbor. • Facing page 150: Approaching Sitka through Peril Strait. • Facing page 152: Ft. Wrangell. • Facing page 160: At the Foot of Muir Glacier. • Facing page 176: Arctic Grouse. • Facing page 200: Kings River Canyon. • Facing page 232: Mount Rainier. • Facing page 266: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Concord. • Facing page 268: On Professor Sargent's Grounds, Brookline, Mass. • Facing page 304: Along Paradise Creek in the Canadian Rockies, between Banff and Glacier. • Facing page 310: Along the Crest of the Blue Ridge in the Alleghany Mountains, above Luray. • Facing page 322: Father Duncan. • Facing page 324: Sitka Harbor. • Facing page 326: Mountain View above Yakutat Bay. • Facing page 352: Mr. Muir on a Sierra Club Outing. • Facing page 382: Mr. Muir at his Martinez Home in October, 1913. • Facing page 410: President Roosevelt and John Muir, with party, at the foot of a Giant Sequoia. • Facing page 422: A Smooth-barked Eucalyptus by Mr. Muir's Grave on the Alhambra Ranch.
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The Mountains of California: I by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment, with extensive corrections in pencil, from a draft of chapter 7, page 145 (note: this fragment directly leads to the fragment tipped into volume 8 of this set): "one of the loveliest glacier meadows I ever enjoyed, lies hidden in an extensive forest of Twoleafed Pine, in the basin of the ancient Tuolumne Mer de glace, about ten miles to the west of Mount Dana. Imagine yourself at the Tuolumne Soda Springs on the bank of the river. You set off northward through" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 90): Mono Pass • Facing page 6: A Sierra Canyon. [Kings River Canyon] • Facing page 8: Dwarf Pine (P. albicaulis). • Facing page 24: Mount Rainier. • Facing page 44: A Snow-Bridge over a Stream. • Facing page 52: A Snow-Banner. • Facing page 60: Mount Ritter. • Facing page 76: The Minarets. • Facing page 92: A Portion of the Sierra Range from Owen's Valley, near Independence. • Facing page 98: Red Lake, in Bloody Canyon. • Facing page 104: Lateral Moraines above Moraine Lake. • Facing page 106: Blue Gentians in the Tuolumne Meadows. • Facing page 124: Shadow Lake. [Now called Merced Lake] • Facing page 138: Rocky Islet in an Alpine Lake. • Facing page 140: Rock-Fringe (Epilobium obcordatum). • Facing page 148: A Series of Flowers from Delaney Meadow. • Facing page 156: A Hanging Meadow. • Facing page 170: A Sugar Pine. • Facing page 180: A Young Sugar Pine. • Facing page 188: A Young Incense Cedar. • Facing page 194b: Among the Red Firs. • Facing page 208: A Prostrate Sequoi ("Fallen Monarch"). • Facing page 222: Sheep on a Mountain Slope. • Facing page 228: Junipers. • Facing page 232: Mountain Hemlock, on Piute Mt • Facing page 240: Needle (Fox-Tail) Pines. • Facing page 286: Mossbrae Falls at Shasta Springs.
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The Story of my Boyhood and Youth and A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment from a draft of chapter 7, page 159: "not subject to floods have been dammed at short intervals by the fall of trees. Some of the most delightful emerald moss bogs to be found in the entire Sierra originate in this way." Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 148): Outlet of Muir's Lake • Facing page 16: Ruins of Dunbar Castle. [From a painting by C. Stanchfield, R.A.] • Facing page 50: A Wisconsin Landscape, on the way to Fountain Lake. • Facing page 58: A Nighthawk's Nest. • Facing page 62: A Passing Thunder-Storm. [On the Hickory Hill Farm] • Facing page 66: West Bank, by Fountain Lake. • Facing page 94: A Boat on Fountain Lake. • Facing page 96: Pasque-Flowers. • Facing page 100: Huckleberries. • Facing page 104: Lake Mendota, Wisconsin. • Facing page 114: The Broad Fox River Meadows. • Facing page 142: A Muskrat Cabin. • Facing page 148b: A Mountain Marmot. • Facing page 164: Ice-coated Trees. • Facing page 180: Hickory Hill Farm. • Facing page 186: The Hickory Hill Ridge. • Facing page 216: Clipping from the Wisconsin State Journal of Sept. 26, 1860, containing a reference to John Muir's clocks. • Facing page 222: North Dormitory, University of Wisconsin. [Mr. Muir's room was the corner room on the ground floor] • Facing page 254: Entrance to Mammoth Cave. • Facing page 270: The Clinch River, Tennessee. • Facing page 290: A Southern Pine. • Facing page 300: A Moss-draped Pine. • Facing page 316: The Unfamiliar Florida Coast. • Facing page 336: A Palm Landscape. • Facing page 350: Flower-Spike and Leaves of the Spanish Bayonet. • Facing page 354: Lime Key, off the Coast at Cedar Keys.
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The Mountains of California: II by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment from a draft of chapter 7, page 147 (note: this fragment directly leads to the fragment tipped into volume 7 of this set): "+ seems delightfully substantial + familiar. The rosiny pines are types of health, the Robins feeding on the lawn ^sod belong to the same species you have known since childhood, + surely these are the very flowers of the old home garden. Bees hum as in a harvest noon," Added images • Color frontispiece (same as original frontispiece): El Capitan, Yosemite National Park • Facing page 10: Water-Ouzel. • Facing page 34: Wild Sheep. … [photo. By Enos A. Mills] • Facing page 56: A Young California Panther. • Facing page 84: Hemizonia. • Facing page 94: Chamissal Bush (Adenostoma fasciculata). • Facing page 108: A Southern California Bee-Ranch. • Facing page 116: Maidenhair Ferns. • Facing page 128: Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point. • Facing page 132: Bridal Veil Fall. • Facing page 134: The Cathedral Rocks. • Facing page 136: The Yosemite Fall. • Facing page 154: The Nevada Fall. • Facing page 184: Yellow Pines in Yosemite Valley. • Facing page 190: The South Dome, from the River • Facing page 192: The South Dome in Winter. • Facing page 204b: From the Summit of Fairview Dome. • Facing page 222: Down Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point Trail. • Facing page 224: Looking down on the Nevada Trail. • Facing page 236: The Tuolumne Meadows. • Facing page 242: South from the Summit of Mt. Dana. • Facing page 244: Southeast from the Summit of Mt. Lyell. • Facing page 246: The Big Tuolumne Canyon. • Facing page 268: The Royal Arches. • Facing page 272: "Icy Blades" on the Lyell Glacier. • Facing page 280: Hetch Hetchy Falls.
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