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The winds began to freshen, a warning that the balmy California day was about to change. In the Sierra Nevada Mountains, experienced locals were retreating inside to wait out the windstorm about to roar down the Yuba River valley.
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- 1.
John Muir, The Mountains of California (New York: The Century Company, 1894), ch. 10 (“A Windstorm in the Forests”).
- 2.
Ibid.
- 3.
Ibid.
- 4.
Anonymous, quoted in: America’s Wilderness: The Photographs of Ansel Adams with the Writings of John Muir (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1997), 75.
- 5.
Linnie Marsh Wolfe, Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1945), 55.
- 6.
Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 29.
- 7.
Ibid., 27.
- 8.
Ibid., 52.
- 9.
Stephen Fox, The American Conservation Movement: John Muir and His Legacy (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981), 14.
- 10.
John Muir, quoted in: America’s Wilderness, 116.
- 11.
Muir, quoted in Wolfe, 55.
- 12.
Ibid., 57.
- 13.
Wolfe, 67.
- 14.
Muir, quoted in Fox, 43.
- 15.
Ibid., 104.
- 16.
Ibid., 105.
- 17.
Ibid., 110.
- 18.
Muir, quoted in Wolfe, 110.
- 19.
John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), 30.
- 20.
John Muir, “The Treasures of the Yosemite,” Century Magazine XL, no. 4 (August 1890).
- 21.
Ibid.
- 22.
US Senate Bill 203, June 30, 1864.
- 23.
Muir, quoted in Fox, 11.
- 24.
Muir, quoted in Wolfe, 144.
- 25.
Yelverton, quoted in Fox, 15–16.
- 26.
Muir, quoted in Wolfe, 167.
- 27.
Quoted in Fox, 78.
- 28.
The term “a proper cultivated plant” shows up in many places, but is the chapter title from Fox, 54.
- 29.
The partnership between Muir and Johnson is described in both Worster and Wolfe, but Johnson also wrote about it himself in his autobiography, Remembered Yesterdays (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1923). Muir is covered in pages 278–316.
- 30.
The description of mugwumps in relationship to Muir comes from: Dennis C. Williams, God’s Wilds: John Muir’s Vision of Nature (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2002), 165.
- 31.
Muir, “The Treasures of the Yosemite.”
- 32.
John Muir, “Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park,” Century Magazine XL, no. 9 (September 1890).
- 33.
Robert Underwood Johnson, “John Muir as I Knew Him,” Sierra Club Bulletin, John Muir Memorial Number, January 1916.
- 34.
Muir, quoted in Wolfe, 274.
- 35.
Muir, quoted in Fox, 126.
- 36.
Muir, quoted in Johnson, Remembered Yesterdays, 292.
- 37.
Muir, quoted in Williams, 187.
- 38.
Muir, quoted in Worster, 424.
- 39.
Muir, quoted in Williams, 161.
- 40.
Johnson “John Muir as I Knew Him,” 316.
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