The Life and Letters of John Muir: Volume I by William Frederic Badè (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)

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.