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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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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: 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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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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My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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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.
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Steep Trails: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, The Grand Cañon by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 6 from a draft of chapter 7, pages 145-146 (note: this fragment directly leads from the fragment tipped into volume 4 of this set): "a forest that stretches away indefinitely before you seemingly unbroken by openings of any kind. As soon as you enter the woods, the gray mountain peaks are lost to view. The ground is littered with fallen trunks that lie crossed + recrossed like storm-lodged wheat, + besides the crop of pines, the rich soil composed of outspread moraines, supports a" Added images • Facing page (same image as facing 358b): O'Neill's Point, Grand Canyon • Facing page 26: Mt. Watkins, from Mirror Lake. • Facing page 28: From the Summit of Cloud's Rest, toward Tissiack (Half Dome). • Facing page 46: Mt. Shasta. • Facing page 54: Mt. Lassen in Eruption. • Facing page 84: Mt. Shasta from the North. • Facing page 86: Muir's Peak, from Stewart Lake. • Facing page 118: A Salt Lake Sunset. • Facing page 128: Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum). • Facing page 136: San Gabriel Valley. • Facing page 152: Big-Cone Spruces Douglasii macrocarpa). • Facing page 162: An Artesian Well. [Part of the water supply of the city of Ogden, Utah] • Facing page 168: Nut Pine (Pinus monophylla). • Facing page 176: Fox-Tail Pines. • Facing page 206: A Scene in Puget Sound. • Facing page 210: Mount Baker. • Facing page 230: A Giant Western Arbor-Vitae. • Facing page 258: Snoqualmie Fall. • Facing page 264: Mt. Rainier, from Cloud Camp. • Facing page 292: Mt. Hood, Oregon, from Cloud Cap Inn. • Facing page 330: The Columbia Lakes, source of the Columbia River, in Windermere Valley, B.C. • Facing page 340: Cape Horn, Columbia River. • Facing page 344: Crater Lake. • Facing page 348: The Grand Canyon, - Cliffs at Grand View. • Facing page 358: Across the Grand Canyon from "Thor's Hammer." • Facing page 372: A nut Pine on the Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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Our National Parks by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
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Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 9 from a draft of chapter 7, page 147 (note: this fragment directly leads from the fragment tipped into volume 6 of this set): "butterflies waver above the flowers, + like them you lave in the vital sun glow, too richly + homogeneously joy filled to be capable of partial thought. You are then all eye like a dew drop, sifted through + through with light. Sauntering along the brook that meanders silently through the meadow from the east, special flowers call you back to" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 46): Pulpit Terrace, Yellowstone National Park • Facing page 8: Creosote Bush and Cholla Cactus. • Facing page 34b: Mt. Rainier. • Facing page 44: The Grand Teton, from Jackson Lake. • Facing page 52: Yellowstone Lake. • Facing page 68: Agate Stumps in Yellowstone Park. • Facing page 74: South from the Summit of Mt. Washburn • Facing page 96: Glacier monument. [Now called Fairview Dome] • Facing page 114: One-leafed Nut-Pine. • Facing page 120: A Sugar Pine. • Facing page 128: Yellow Pines. • Facing page 134: California Red Cedar. • Facing page 140: A California Live-Oak. • Facing page 144: Statue of Ralph Waldo Emerson, by D.C. French, in the Concord Public Library. • Facing page 172: Snow Plant (Sarcodes sanguinea). • Facing page 188: A Brown Bear. • Facing page 202: A Bear and Two Cubs after a Supper. • Facing page 222: A California Lizard. • Facing page 224: A Sierra Rattlesnake. • Facing page 230: A Native Sierra Trout. [Salmo Rooseveltii, Golden Trout] • Facing page 252: A Hummingbird. • Facing page 262: A Canyon Stream (the Tuolumne). • Facing page 278: Flood Waters. • Facing page 322: The "General Grant" Sequoia. • Facing page 358: A Maine Evergreen Forest, • Facing page 376: A Coast Redwood Grove.
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