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)

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.