John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures

Contents

Contents 2 1 List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction Meeting John Muir’s Family, Friends, and Adventures Between the Calypso borealis and the Araucaria imbricata Bonnie Johanna Gisel 1 Part I 2 Family and Friends chapter one John Muir and the John Swett Family Ruth E. Sutter 15 chapter two John Muir and the Bairns Muir and His Relationship with Children Daryl Morrison 31 chapter three California’s Kindred Spirits John Muir and William Keith Ronald H. Limbaugh 65 Part II 2 Controversies chapter four Pride, Prejudice, and Patrimony The Dispute Between George Wharton James and the Family and Friends of John Muir Ronald H. Limbaugh 83 chapter five “Wealth and Beauty” John Muir and Forest Conservation Ronald Eber 105 chapter six With Friends Like These John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Drama of Environmental Politics Char Miller 121 Part III 2 Literary Aspects chapter seven Domesticity, Tourism, and the National Parks in John Muir’s Late Writings Daniel J. Philippon 149 chapter eight 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 Barbara Mossberg 169 Part IV 2 Adventures chapter nine Near and Far Burroughs and Muir on the Harriman Alaska Expedition James Perrin Warren 203 chapter ten “Those Who Walk Apart but Ever Together Are True Companions” Jeanne Carr and John Muir in the High Sierra Bonnie Johanna Gisel 215 chapter eleven Meeting Muir’s Mountains Corey Lewis 235 chapter twelve John Muir’s Travels to South America and Africa Michael P. Branch 249 Contributors 267 Index 271 ...