![]() In 1849, his family emigrated to Portage, Wisconsin for religious reasons. Born in Dunbar (East Lothian), he spent his childhood exploring the area, and that is where his love of nature first bloomed. John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American author and naturalist, who is traditionally considered to be the "Father of the National Parks". In this novel, he tells of the nature in the Sierra, and of his ascension of Mt. The antics of the smallest "insect people" amazed him as much as stunted thousand-year old Juniper trees growing with inconceivable tenacity from tiny cracks in the stone. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, he was awestruck by everything he saw. He designed it in such a way that a portion of the stream flowed through it, as he wanted to enjoy its music. ![]() Muir went on to built a cabin along Yosemite Creek, where he lived for two years. "My First Summer in the Sierra" (1911) takes inspiration from Muir’s journals of the months he spent between June and September 1869 as a shepherd in the Sierras. ![]()
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