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My First Summer in the Sierra chronicles John Muir’s first summer in the Yosemite River Valley from June through September 1869. He was thirty-one years old. He accompanied a small group of men and a flock of sheep 2050 strong; they were to be fattened up in the valley.
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My first summer in the Sierra (1911) is based on Muir's original journals and sketches of his 1869 stay in the Sierras. Hired to supervise a San Joaquin sheep owner's flock at the headwaters of the Merced and Tulomne Rivers, Muir sets out for the mountains in June, returning to the Valley in September.
by John Muir. Contents. Through the Foothills with a Flock of Sheep. In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced. A Bread Famine. To the High Mountains. The Yosemite. Mount Hoffman and Lake Tenaya. A Strange Experience. The Mono Trail. Bloody Canon and Mono Lake. The Tuolumne Camp. Back to the Lowlands. Liberty Cap, with Vernal and Nevada Falls.
Aug 20, 2007 · My first summer in the Sierra. by. Muir, John, 1838-1914. Publication date. c1911. Topics. Muir, John, 1838-1914, Natural history -- Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.), Naturalists -- United States, Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) Publisher. Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin.
My first summer in the Sierra (1911) is based on Muir's original journals and sketches of his 1869 stay in the Sierras. Hired to supervise a San Joaquin sheep owner's flock at the headwaters of...
My First Summer in the Sierra, whose heart is the diary Muir kept while tending sheep in Yosemite country, enticed thousands of Americans to visit this magical place, and resounds with Muir’s regard for the “divine, enduring, unwasteable wealth” of the natural world.
