Introducing John Muir
- The Life of John Muir
- Chronology of the Life and Legacy of John Muir (1838-2019)
- Writings by John Muir
The Travels of John Muir
Muir traveled extensively in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and elsewhere in the world in search of the beauties of Nature.
Scotland: Muir's Birthplace
- Scotland: John Muir Global Network
- John Muir's Scottish Ancestry: Muir Clan or Gordon Clan? by Harold Wood
- Discover John Muir: A comprehensive website filled with resources about John Muir from a UK perspective, sponsored by the John Muir Trust in collaboration with the John Muir Birthplace.
- Dunbar’s John Muir Association
- John Muir Trust
- John Muir's Birthplace: Explore the life and legacy of John Muir by visiting the house in Dunbar, Scotland, where he was born, now a unique museum and the starting point of the John Muir Way.
- Friends of John Muir's Birthplace: Friends of John Muir’s Birthplace (founded in 1994 as “Dunbar’s John Muir Association” promotes the life and work of John Muir in Dunbar, Scotland and beyond.
- John Muir Way: This 134 mile walking and bicycling path going from coast to coast across central Scotland encourages outdoor discovery, and promotes understanding of John Muir's legacy and philosophy by getting closer to nature.
Wisconsin Boyhood and Inventions
- John Muir's Wisconsin Days by Dave Leshuk
- "An Ingenious Whittler": 1860 newspaper account of Muir's inventions at the Wisconsin State Fair
- John Muir by Jeanne C. Carr: From California Illustrated Magazine, vol. 2, pp. 88-94, June, 1892. Liberal quotations from Muir's letters to his mentor recount his life from Wisconsin to his earliest days in California.
- College Friend Describes Muir's Mechanical Marvels by Harvey Reid
- John Muir's Clocks: Wisconsin Electronic Reader
- Engines of Our Ingenuity, No. 2422 John Muir: Text and radio program about Muir as an engineer. from the University of Houston's School of Engineering. A podcast and streaming audio of this episode is available.
- John Muir and the Civil War by Millie Stanley
Muir in Canada
- Canada John Muir Resources: John Muir Global Network
- Canadian Friends of John Muir Archive: This is the archive website chronicling the efforts of the Canadian Friends of John Muir to re-discover Muir’s time spent in Trout Hollow, near Meaford, Ontario.
- John Muir and His Canadian Friends by Bruce Cox
- Was John Muir a Draft Dodger? by Harold Wood
- John Muir and the Civil War by Millie Stanley
Muir in Yosemite
- In the Yosemite with John Muir by Clara Barrus
- In Yosemite with John Muir by President Theodore Roosevelt
- John Muir and the 1872 Earthquake: Where was Eagle Rock? by Ron Limbaugh
- Eagle Rock Found! by by Gerald F. Wieczorek (2003 Update)
- Following Muir's First Summer Route by John Fiske
- On Early Yosemite Artists and Tourism
Hetch Hetchy - Muir's Last Battle
- The Hetch Hetchy Valley by John Muir: Boston Weekly Transcript, March 25, 1873
- The Hetch Hetchy Valley by John Muir: Sierra Club Bulletin, Vol. VI, No. 4, January, 1908
- The Hetch Hetchy Valley by John Muir: Chapter 16 of Muir's 1912 book, The Yosemite
- Hetch Hetchy History
- Hetch Hetchy Timeline
- Andrew Carnegie on John Muir: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 1, No.2, Spring 1991
- Restore Hetch Hetchy: Current campaign
Alaska: Exploring Glaciers
- Muir and Stickeen: An Aventure with a Dog on a Glacier
- A letter from John Muir to S. Hall Young, 1910 May 31
- Letters from Alaska by John Muir: A review by Frank E. Buske, John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1994
- Nature and the Human Spirit: The Transformation of Henry Loomis by Ronald H. Limbaugh: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 4, Fall 1992
- Glaciers in Alaska: An Enthusiastic Report of John Muir's Lecture at Vancouver by O.O. Howard: The Oregonian, January 24, 1880.
- John Muir and the Fire on the Mountain by Wrangell History Unlocked Podcast, August 28, 2021): On a stormy night in 1879, John Muir climbed the mountain behind Fort Wrangel, Alaska and built a fire so large it lit up the sky.
- John Muir on Alaska Gold: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 2, No.2, Spring 1992
Domestic and International Journeys
- Global Muir: John Muir Global Network
- The Muir Family in Arizona by Lilian Whiting: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring, 1995
- John Muir in Oregon by Ronald Eber: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 4, Fall 1993
- John Muir in Russia, 1903 by William H. Brennan: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 4, Fall 1993
- John Muir and William Bartram: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 2, No.2, Spring 1992
- John Muir's Photograph Collection by Janene Ford: The John Muir Newsletter, v.4, No.4, Fall 1994
- John Muir in the Amazon Basin, by Laurel Bemis: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3, Summer 1993
- Jeanne Carr on Shasta, by Jeanne C. Carr: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 1994
- John Muir and the Desert Connection, by Peter Wild
- Tracking John Muir to the Monkey Puzzle Forests of Chile by Bruce Byers: Fascinating article and photos tracking Muir's visit to Chile in 2012.
Botanical Studies
- New Cache Of Muir Letters Discovered In England by Ron Limbaugh
- Reflections on a Redwood Snag by Ron Limbaugh: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 3, Summer 1992
- Tracking John Muir to the Monkey Puzzle Forests of Chile by Bruce Byers: Fascinating article and photos tracking Muir's visit to Chile in 2012
- Muir, Michaux, And Gray On The Roan By Bob Fulcher: Reprint from The Tennessee Conservationist, September-October, 1998, about Muir's 1898 botanical excursion to Roan Mountain
Family and Ranch Life
- At Home with John Muir by George Gerard Clarken: Overland Monthly, August 1908
- Muir's wife Louie Strentzel Muir
- John Muir as Fellow Human Being by P.J. Ryan
- John Muir's Telephone Number by Harold Wood: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 1, Winter, 2001/2002
- The Mystery of John Muir's Money by Arno Dosch: Sunset Magazine, February, 1916
- John Muir National Historic Site
- John Muir's Gravesite
John Muir and Native Americans
- Across the Shaman's River: John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North by Daniel Lee Henry. See description and listing in our Historical and Literary Analyses.
- John Muir: Racist or Admirer of Native Americans? by Raymond Barnett
- Criticizing Muir and misunderstanding the foundation of American nature conservation by Bruce A. Byers
- Ancoutahan: John Muir among Native Peoples by Chris Highland
- John Muir's Evolving Attitudes Toward Native American Cultures by Richard F. Fleck
- On John Muir's Trail by Donald Worster
- John Muir biographer: He was no white supremacist by Donald Worster, July 29, 2020
- John Muir and race: Biographer argues for nuanced view of the environmentalist by Finn Cohen
- Who Was John Muir, Really? by Chad Hanson
- Who Was John Muir, Really? by Aaron Mair, Chad Hanson, and Mary Ann Nelson. Earth island Journal, August 11, 2021
- Muir's Early Indian Views: Another Look At My First Summer In The Sierra by Ross Wakefield. John Muir Newsletter, v.5, no.1, Winter 1994- 95
- The Relevance of John Muir's Steep Trails by Richard F. Fleck
- Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Native Americans: West Winds Press, 2015
- John Muir and Native American Activist Charles Lummis by Robert Hanna: In his later years, Muir joined and donated funds to an Indian welfare organization, the Sequoyah League, founded by his friend Charles Lummis, who was a great advocate of Native Americans in the entire Southwest.
- John Muir and Native Americans: John Muir Global Network
Personal Reminiscences of John Muir by those who knew him
- John Muir by John Wright Buckham. Nature Magazine, November, 1927
- Camping with Burroughs and Muir by Clara Barrus (1914)
- With John o' the Birds and John o' the Mountains by Clara Barrus (1910)
- "An Afternoon with John Muir" and other references to John Muir, by W.P. Bartlett in Happenings: A Series of Sketches of the Great California Out-of-Doors by W.P. Bartlett Second Edition, Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, Los Angeles, 1927
- A Visit with John Muir by John Burroughs (1896)
- John Muir by Bailey Millard
- Personal Recollections of John Muir by Samuel Merrill (1928)
- John Muir: An Appreciation by President Theodore Roosevelt
- Academic Honors Given John Muir in his Lifetime
- John Muir by John Swett
- John Muir by Ray Stannnard Baker, Outlook, June 6, 1903
- John Muir: Address Delivered by Charles R. Van Hise upon the Occasion of the Unveiling of a Bronze Bust of John Muir by the Sculptor C. S. Pietro at the University of Wisconsin, December 6, 1916
- A Conversation with John Muir from World's Work, Nov. 1906: A humorous Interview with John Muir covers his travels around the world and adventures on California's Mount Shasta, Arizona's Petrified Forest, and trips to see trees in Siberia, India, Ceylon, and Australia.
- Reminiscences of John Muir by Myra Honegger: John Muir Newsletter, v. 4, No. 1, Winter 1993-4
- Glaciers in Alaska: An Enthusiastic Report of John Muir's Lecture at Vancouver by O.O. Howard (January 24, 1880)
- John Muir by Ernest Ingersoll: The Mentor, June 5, 1919
- Recollections of John Muir, by Grace S. Lindsley
- To the Memory of John Muir by C. Hart Merriam
- A Tribute to John Muir: Naturalist, Writer, and Man by George Hamlin Fitch
- A Parable of Sauntering by Albert W. Palmer - Including a conversation with John Muir showing how Muir hated "hiking" - both the word and the thing. (excerpted from The Mountain Trail and Its Message, 1911) .
- Alaska Days with John Muir by S. Hall Young (1915)
- Sierra Club Bulletin John Muir Memorial: Volume 10, Number 1, January 1916 (includes the following essays)
- To Higher Sierras by William Frederic Badè
- A Message and Appreciation by James Bryce
- John Muir, President of the Sierra Club by William E. Colby
- John Muir as I Knew Him by Robert Underwood Johnson
- John Muir by David Starr Jordan
- Recollections of John Muir by Charles Keeler
- The Burial of John Muir by Charlotte Hoffman Kellogg [poetry]
- Muir Lodge: An Appreciation by Mary Frances Kellogg
- John Muir by Robert B. Marshall
- John Muir by Enos Mills
- An Appreciation by Harriet Monroe
- Muir of the Mountains by Alexander McAdie
- John Muir by Henry Fairfield Osborn
- John Muir and the Alaska Book by Marion Randall Parsons
- John Muir by Charles Sprague Sargent
Modern Essays About John Muir
- John Muir and the United States National Park System: Speech by former Sierra Club President Lawrence Downing
- John Muir, the Sierra, Yosemite National Park & the Sierra Club by Bonnie J. Gisel, Ph.D., Curator, LeConte Memorial Lodge
- John Muir by Lawrence Clark Powell
- A Visit to John Muir's Wisconsin Farm by Bill Tweed
- 9 Things You Don't Know About John Muir By Mary Jo DiLonardo
- All the Colors of Nature by Michael Brune
- The Light at the End -- and Beginning -- of John Muir's Journey by Barbara Mossberg
- Who Was John Muir, Really? by Chad Hanson
- When Writing About John Muir, I Had to See What He Saw By Donald Worster
- In Celebration of John Muir by John de Graaf: Earth Island Journal
- How John Muir's Incessant Study Saved Yosemite by Michael Wurtz
- John Muir: Timeless Champion of Nature by William R.Swagerty, University of the Pacific
- Criticizing Muir and misunderstanding the foundation of American nature conservation by Bruce A. Byers
- John Muir's Stance against Anthropocentrism by Bron Taylor
About Muir's Books and Articles
- Learning From the Laws of Nature: Nature as Salvation in the Early Works of John Muir by Apple Gifford
- John Muir's Literary Science By Terry Gifford, in The Public Domain Review, June 9, 2011
Conservation Legacy
- The Importance of John Muir by National Park Serivce
- John Muir's Public Service by William O. Douglas (excerpted from Muir of the Mountains)
- John Muir: The Living Spirit and Founder of the World Conservation Movement by Graham White
- John Muir: The Wilderness Journeys, Introduction by Graham White
- Victorians and Meadowlarks: Two Muir Letters Rediscovered: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 4, Fall 1991
- Muir Set the Pattern for Those Who Followed by Robert Michael Pyle
- John Muir and the 1906 Antiquities Act by David Blackburn
- John Muir and the Pioneer Conservationists of the Pacific Northwest by Ron Eber
- Seventeen Years to Success: John Muir, William Gladstone Steel, and the Creation of Yosemite and Crater Lake National Parks by Stephen R. Mark, Historian, Crater Lake National Park, U.S. National Park Service
- John Muir's Defense of Wildlife by Richard Fleck
- John Muir on Caves by Jennifer Ong
- A Note on John Muir and the Appalachian Mountain Club by Richard Fleck
- Letter to John Muir: To the Glory of Nature, John Muir, Eternity by Rex Burress
- Prizing the Power of the Sea by Michael Russell, Scotland's Cabinet secretary for education and lifelong learning, and former minister for the environment.
- John Muir's Legacy Lives On by The Scottish Government, News Release, April 9, 2010
- In Celebration of John Muir by John de Graaf: Earth Island Journal, December 23, 2014
- Remarks by Spencer Black to the Natural Heritage Land Trust at the Celebration of the Purchase of Fountain Lake Farm
- Remembering John Muir on the centennial of the National Park Service by Mark Stoll
- John Muir's Legacy: Preface for an Evolving Curriculum on John Muir and Environmental History by Barbara Mossberg
Muir's Philosophy
- John Muir: The Celebration of Wilderness by Richard F. Fleck
- Sermon: Easter People: John Muir by Rev. Virginia Pearson and Bill Hanna, John Muir's Great-Grandson
- The Nature Mysticism of John Muir by Larry Gates
- John Muir's Menu by J. Parker Huber, Sierra magazine
- Why climb mountains? John Muir and Clarence King at a historical crossroads of American mountain climbing by Erica Goldman
- John Muir and the Feminist Movement by Ronald H. Limbaugh: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1994
- Zen Buddhism in John Muir by Michelle L. Dwyer: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 5, no. 2, Spring, 1995
- John Muir and the Modern Passion for Nature by Dr. Donald Worster, featured as the Lynn W. Day Distinguished Lectureship in Forest and Conservation History for 2004 for the Forest History Society
- Radical Transcendentalism: Emerson, Muir and the Experience of Nature by James Brannon: John Muir Newsletter, Vol. 16., No. 1, Winter, 2005/2006
- Anywhere That's Wild: It's spring in Yosemite and I can hear John Muir calling me -- time to head for the mountains by Gary Kamiya: Salon.com May 15, 2007
- John Muir and the Poetics of Natural Conversion by John Tallmadge, North Dakota Quarterly, Spring 1991
Articles from other Sources
- John Muir Newsletter: University of the Pacific.
- Muir Laid to Rest Across the Bay: [Report of John Muir's Funeral] - San Francisco Chronicle - December 28, 1914
- New York Times Obituary of John Muir: December 25, 1914 (reprint 2000)
- Tracking John Muir to the Monkey Puzzle Forests of Chile by Bruce Byers: Fascinating article and photos tracking Muir's visit to Chile in 2012.