My First Summer in the Sierra
work by Muir
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study of Sierra Nevada Range
- In Sierra Nevada: Study and exploration
…readers, the naturalist John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra, a diary of camping and exploration in 1869, is one of the classics of American geographic writing. Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club (1892), a conservationist group concerned with the preservation of the scenic resources of the Sierra…
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