Muir, John, 1838-1914
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John Muir (born April 21, 1838, Dunbar, Scotland – died December 24, 1914, Los Angeles, California), Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas.
The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. Correspondence, journals, manuscripts, notes, drawings, and photographs of and by the conservationist, an intellectual precursor of the modern ecology movement and a proponent of the expansion of the national park system.
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| referencedIn | [John Muir in Kings River Canyon] [graphic]. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
| creatorOf | Adler, Christopher. Song for a glacial boulder : for soprano or tenor and saxophone quartet / Christopher Adler ; text by John Muir. | Bowling Green State University, BGSU Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Administrative correspondence of the Gray Herbarium and Harvard University Herbaria, 1890-2019, bulk 1890-1955 | Harvard University, Gray Herbarium | |
| referencedIn | Adrian, Sylvester F., 1894-1981. John Muir Memorial Park (Wisc.) papers, 1954-1982. | University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library | |
| referencedIn | Anderson family Papers, 1848-1963 | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
| referencedIn | Anderson family. Anderson family papers, 1848-1963. | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
| referencedIn | Anna Ryder Dickey Collection, 1889-2000 | University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division | |
| referencedIn | Anne Hadden Collection, 1869-1935 | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
| referencedIn | Arctic field photographs, 1899. | New York State Historical Documents Inventory | |
| referencedIn | Automobile Club of Southern California Collection of Photographs and Negatives, 1898-1982, bulk 1920s-1930s | The Huntington Library |
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| associatedWith | Adler, Christopher. |
| associatedWith | Adrian, Sylvester F., 1894-1981. |
| associatedWith | Anderson family |
| associatedWith | Anderson family. |
| associatedWith | Ashley, Harriet m. |
| associatedWith | Ashley, Harriet Meade, |
| associatedWith | Automobile Club of Southern California, |
| associatedWith | Badè, William Frederic, 1871-1936. |
| associatedWith | Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931, |
| associatedWith | Beard Daniel, 1850-1941. |
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Birth 1847
Death 1914
Birth 1838-04-21
Death 1914-12-24
Active 1838
Active 1914
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Muir, John, 1838-1914
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