John Muir : Family, Friends, and Adventures

by Miller, Sally M.

• ISBN13: 9780826335302
• ISBN10: 0826335306
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-21
• Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr

Summary

Since 1980 California's University of the Pacific has hosted the John Muir Institute dedicated to promoting the legacy of the famed environmentalist. These essays are papers presented at the institute in 2001. Ruth Sutter explores the friendship between John Muir and his neighbour, John Swett, the innovative California educator. Daryl Morrison considers the role Muir played in the lives of children and they in his. Ron Limbaugh provides two essays: one describes the dispute about the publication of some of Muir's most personal correspondence, while the other presents the friendship of Muir and landscape painter William Keith. Ron Eber focuses on Muir as the national spokesman for American wilderness and forests. Char Miller highlights the interplay between John Muir and Gifford Pinchot in America's nineteenth-century environmental movement. Daniel Philippon examines how Muir's later domestic life changed his rhetoric and how he promoted the preservation of wilderness. Barbara Mossberg presents an overview of Muir's vision of the value of wilderness necessary for America's physical, spiritual, economic, and cultural survival. Jim Warren describes how a shared experience on the Alaska Expedition could bring naturalists Muir and John Burroughs closer in their approach. Bonnie Johanna Gisel provides an account of an 1873 trip through the Tuolumne Canyon by John Muir and his friend and mentor, Jeanne C. Carr. Corey Lewis studies Muir's methodology to understand and experience his fieldwork approach. Michael Branch focuses on Muir's final journey to explore South America and Africa. Each of these essays will bring new ideas for future study of John Muir.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Meeting John Muir's Family, Friends, and Adventures Between the Calypso borealis and the Araucaria imbricata	1	(14)
Bonnie Johanna Gisel
Part I Family and Friends
John Muir and the John Swett Family	15	(134)
Ruth E. Sutter
John Muir and the Bairns
Muir and His Relationship with Children	31	(34)
Daryl Morrison
California's Kindred Spirits
John Muir and William Keith	65	(18)
Ronald H. Limbaugh
Part II Controversies
Pride, Prejudice, and Patrimony
The Dispute Between George Wharton James and the Family and Friends of John Muir	83	(22)
Ronald H. Limbaugh
``Wealth and Beauty''
John Muir and Forest Conservation	105	(16)
Ronald Eber
With Friends Like These
John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Drama of Environmental Politics	121	(28)
Char Miller
Part III Literary Aspects
Domesticity, Tourism, and the National Parks in John Muir's Late Writings	149	(86)
Daniel J. Philippon
If Trees Are Us
A Relativity Theory Showing the Genius of John Muir's Domestic Vision of Nature for Public Policy and the National Ethos	169	(34)
Barbara Mossberg
Part IV Adventures
Near and Far
Burroughs and Muir on the Harriman Alaska Expedition	203	(12)
James Perrin Warren
``Those Who Walk Apart but Ever Together Are True Companions''
Jeanne Carr and John Muir in the High Sierra	215	(20)
Bonnie Johanna Gisel
Meeting Muir's Mountains	235	(14)
Corey Lewis
John Muir's Travels to South America and Africa	249	(18)
Michael P. Branch
Contributors	267	(4)
Index	271