John Muir in Historical Perspective

by Miller, Sally M.

• ISBN13: 9780820440088
• ISBN10: 0820440086
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Table of Contents

Introduction
In Search of John Muir	1	(12)
Frank E. Buske
PART I: Friends and Others
A Paradise in the Alhambra Valley: John Muir and the Strentzels	13	(22)
Mark A. Foley
Spiritual Intimacy: John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr	35	(28)
Bonnie Johanna Gisel
The Neo-Californians: John Muir and John Swett and Their Inner World	63	(20)
Nicholas C. Polos
C. D. Robinson and John Muir in the Kings River Canyon	83	(16)
Norman L. Wilson
Lucinda M. Woodward
PART II: Literary Themes
Telling Nature's Story: John Muir and the Decentering of the Romantic Self	99	(24)
Michael P. Branch
Spiritual Egalitarianism: John Muir's Religious Environmentalism	123	(14)
Adam M. Sowards
Muir's Ruskin: John Muir's Reservations about Ruskin Reviewed	137	(16)
Terry Gifford
PART III: The Environment
Rethinking Muir's First Summer in Yosemite	153	(12)
Steven J. Holmes
Josiah Dwight Whitney, John Muir and Clarence King, and the ``Chasm of the Yosemite''	165	(20)
Keith Burich
John Muir and the Pioneer Conservationists of the Pacific Northwest	185	(32)
Ronald Eber
The Botanist's Last Journey: John Muir in South America and Southern Africa, 1911-12	217	(32)
C. Michael Hall
Stephen R. Mark
Epilogue: Searching for John Muir Today
Shepherd of the Plains: John Muir at Twenty Hill Hollow	233	(16)
Robert E. Bauer
Contributors	249	(4)
Index	253