About This Site

This comprehensive site about John Muir is continually being updated and new additions are being made on a regular basis. Check our What's New section, below. Details about this website, including acknowledgements and off-site links, are provided on Website Resources.

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This site is maintained by volunteer webmaster and coordinator of the Sierra Club's John Muir Education Team, Harold Wood, with design assistance from Sierra Club staff. To report broken links or for substantive questions, contact : harold.wood@sierraclub.org

What's New

2012 May 12

available on Bibliographic Resources , Film and Video:

Added entry and linik to website for John Muir: from BBC One series "The Last Explorers"

available on Places Important to John Muir and Re-Tracing John Muir's Famous Walks and Biography: The Life and Contributions of John Muir

Added Tracking John Muir to the Monkey Puzzle Forests of Chile by Bruce Byers (off-site link) - fascinating article and photos tracking Muir's visit to Chile in 2012.

2012 May 5

available on Biography: The Life and Contributions of John Muir

Added John Muir, the Sierra, Yosemite National Park & the Sierra Club by Bonnie J. Gisel, Ph.D., Curator, LeConte Memorial Lodge, A speech presented on the Occasion of the Sierra Club Resilient Habitats Campaign Retreat March 26 â€“ 29, 2012, Clair Tappaan Lodge

2012 April 22

available on Bibliographic Resources , Annotated John Muir Bibliography, Anthologies and Book Jacket Summaries

Added annotation and book jacket summary for The Contemplative John Muir: Spiritual Quotations from the Great American Naturalist by Stephen K. Hatch

available on Geography - Daniel Muir's Gravesite

Updated link to the historic Elmwood Cemetery.

2012 February

available on available on John Muir Newsletter

Added entry for Fall/Winter 2011-2012 - including "An Essay on John Muir's Phenomenal Science" by Bonnie Johanna Gisel and news updates.

2011 December 10

available on John Muir Newsletter

Added entries from 2006 to 2011 to Contents of Recent Issues
Updated About the John Muir Newsletter to include new subscription instructions

2011 November 13

available on Children's Books, John Muir Bibliography

Addded entry for Appleseeds Magazine: John Muir (April, 2011)

2011 November 12

availble on Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy

Added entry for traveling exhibit to the Atlanta History Center.

2011 August 9

available on Geography, Re-Tracing John Muir's Famous Walks

Added entry for Dr. D. Bruce Means who retraced Muir's 1,000 walk in 1984, and was heartsick to discover that virtually none of Muir's wilderness remained along the route.

2011 August 8

available on Audio, John Muir Bibliography

Added entry for new audiobook, "My First Summer in the Sierra" by John Muir (compact disk or digital download), Reader: Brett Barry. (Silver Hollow Audio Chichester, NY 12416, August, 2011) 6 hours. Available on 5 CDs or by digital download.

2011 July 30

available on Collectibles

Upgraded images to higher quality on Will Pettee's "Mountain Muir" - Sculpture 1 of 2 of John Muir and "Nature's Prophet" - Sculpture 2 of 2 of John Muir

2011 July 20

available on University of the Pacific, The John Muir Center for Environmental Studies and related pages

Updated off-site link for The John Muir Center for Environmental Studies to their new location: http://www.pacific.edu/x7391.xml

2011 July 9

available on A Geography of John Muir

Added a new page: Museums Featuring John Muir . Added information about the Oakland Museum's new John Muir exhibit: A Walk in the Wild: Continuing John Muir's Journey

2011 April 24

available on People, Famous People Influenced by John Muir

Added bio information for the late Millie Stanley, author of The Heart of John Muir's World and John Muir and the Civil War .

2011 April 23

available on Biography: The Life and Contributions of John Muir,

Restored missing sections from this page, including John Muir Reminiscences By Those Who Knew Him, Modern Essays About John Muir, Conservation Legacy, Muir's Philosophy, Articles from Other Sources, Digital Books or Book Chapters on John Muir, and Other Resources.
Added Was John Muir a Draft Dodger? by Harold Wood

available on John Muir Newsletter and Biography: The Life and Contributions of John Muir,

Added John Muir and the Civil War by Millie Stanley
Updated link for current issues of John Muir Newsletter from University of the Pacific from 2006 to present.

2011 March 25

available on Bibliographic Resources , Film and Video:

Added listing and annotation for Lee Stetson: the Voice of John Muir DVD, 2010.

available on About John Muir and on Bibliographic Resources , Film and Video:

Added quote from documentary film-maker Ken Burns "As we got to know him... he [John Muir] ascended to the pantheon of the highest individuals in our country; I'm talking about the level of Abraham Lincoln, and Martin Luther King, and Thomas Jefferson, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jackie Robinson -- people who have had a transformational effect on who we are."

2011 March 5

available on Bibliographic Resources , Film and Video:

Updated information, embedded video, and created new page for upcoming PBS film John Muir in the New World

2011 February 21

available on John Muir in the Arts, Collectibles and John Muir in Sculpture:

Added "The Visionary" - John Muir at Age 34 (1872) - Bust 1 of 2 by William James Pettee
Added "The Inspiration " - John Muir at Age 52 (1890) - Bust 2 of 2 by William James Pettee

2011 February 20

Updated home page and Current Events to feature Bedford Gallery exhibition of Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy, with off-site links to a Flickr slide show and both 5 minute YouTube preview video and 11 minute Bedford Gallery: Making Art from John Muir's Botanical Legacy - Youtube.com (offsite links)

available on Bibliographic Resources, Press Releases:

Updated page on Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy book to include links to Flickr slide show and You Tube videos.

available on Writings of John Muir :

Updated John Muir Misquoted to report shameful granite carving and to update the text.

2011 February 13

available on Tributes to John Muir:

Added introduction but failed attempt at categorical organization due to the wide range of kinds of tributes!
Added Inductee in the California Outdoors Hall of Fame - 2002, sponsored by the International Sportsemen's Exhibition.
Added Inductee in the Adventure Hall of Fame (July 17, 2007), sponsored by Extreme Adventure News.

2011 February 10

Sierra Club Associate Webmaster Adam Kapp completes conversion of web pages of John Muir Exhibit to the new more colorful and usable graphic design using .aspx - thus making the site look much better and removing the problematic frames used on the site forever!

2011 January 18

available on Bibliographic Resources , Film and Video:

Added annotation for "Muir - Man Among Giants" feature film by Stone Soup Studios Motion Picture Company LLC and link to their website www.muirmovie.org/

2011 January 1

available on Current and Upcoming Events:

Upgraded page to new aspx design.
Added listing and links for upcoming Nature's Beloved Son traveling exhibition, opening at Bedford Gallery, Pleasant Hill, California on January 9, 2011.
Updated listing and links for the Montello Historical Society Year of John Muir in Marquette County, Wisconsin.
Added description and links for forthcoming publication of My First Summer in the Sierra: 100th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic by John Muir with Photographs by Scot Miller, Foreword by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns.