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My First Summer in the Sierra

John Muir

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1. Page 213. CHAPTER IX
2. Page 214. BLOODY CAÑON AND MONO LAKE August 21. Have just returned from a fine wild excursion a
3. Page 215. Early in the morning I tied my notebook and some bread to my belt, and strode away fu
4. Page 215. occur under rare conditions of weather and snowfall. No doubt on some positions of th
5. Page 217. Near the summit at the head of the pass I found a species of dwarf willow lying perfe
6. Page 217. were yet a good way off, I should have tried to avoid them. What a picture they made
7. Page 220. At sundown the somber crags and peaks were inspired with the ineffable beauty of the
8. Page 221. The stars shone clear in the strip of sky between the huge dark cliffs; and as I lay
9. Page 221. head of the cañon near the highest fountains of the ice. Here, too, are most of the l
10. Page 224. One of the smallest of the cascades, which I name the Bower Cascade, is in the lower
11. Page 225. The Indians I had met near the head of the cañon had camped at the foot of it the nig
12. Page 225. grand rabbit-drive is organized and hundreds are slain with clubs on the lake shore,
13. Page 228. HIGHEST MONO VOLCANIC CONES (NEAR VIEW) Opposite the mouth of the cañon a range of vo
14. Page 229. Our glacier meadow camp north of the Soda Springs seems more beautiful every day. The
15. Page 229. massive Mount Dana and its companions, green, red, and white, loom impressively above
16. Page 231. CHAPTER X
17. Page 232. THE TUOLUMNE CAMP August 22. Clouds none, cool west wind, slight hoarfrost on the mea
18. Page 233. Rose and crimson sunset, and soon after the stars appeared the moon rose in most impr
19. Page 234. August 26. Frost this morning; all the meadow grass and some of the pine needles spar
20. Page 236. August 27. Clouds only .05,—mostly white and pink cumuli over the Hoffman spur toward
21. Page 237. August 29. Clouds about .05, slight frost. Bland serene Indian summer weather. Have b
22. Page 238. September 1. Clouds .05—motionless, of no particular color—ornaments with no hint of
23. Page 238. res of the landscape revealed in general views. The lakes and meadows are located jus
24. Page 241. ONE OF THE HIGHEST MOUNT RITTER FOUNTAINS September 2. A grand, red, rosy, crimson da
25. Page 243. I watched the growth of these red-lands of the sky as eagerly as if new mountain rang
26. Page 244. Ever since I was allowed entrance into these mountains I have been looking for cassio
27. Page 246. Mr. Delaney now keeps up a solemn talk about the need of getting away from these high
28. Page 247. September 7. Left camp at daybreak and made direct for Cathedral Peak, intending to s
29. Page 248. FRONT OF CATHEDRAL PEAK All the way up from the Big Meadows to the base of the Cathed
30. Page 248. in the rock are seen to have played an important part in determining their forms and
31. Page 248. tals—feldspar, quartz, hornblende, mica, tourmaline. Had a rather difficult walk and
32. Page 252. VIEW OF UPPER TUOLUMNE VALLEY September 8. Day of climbing, scrambling, sliding on th
33. Page 253. CHAPTER XI
34. Page 254. BACK TO THE LOWLANDS September 9. Weariness rested away and I feel eager and ready fo
35. Page 255. Though the water is now low in the river, the usual difficulty occurred in getting th
36. Page 257. September 11. Cloudless. Slight frost. Calm. Fairly started downhill, and now are cam
37. Page 258. September 13. Camp this evening at Yosemite Creek, close to the stream, on a little s
38. Page 259. September 14. Nearly all day in magnificent fir forest, the top branches laden with s
39. Page 260. September 17. Left camp early. Ran over the Tuolumne divide and down a few miles to a
40. Page 261. September 18. Made a long descent on the south side of the divide to Brown’s Flat, th
41. Page 263. September 22. The sheep were let out of the corral one by one, this morning, and coun
42. Page 264. THE END Larger view
43. Page 267. INDEX
44. Page 267. Abies concolor and magnifica. See Fir, silver. Abronia, 228. Adenostoma fasciculata,
45. Page 267. alone, in Bloody Cañon, 220-22; on the Tuolumne, 232-53. Cañon Creek, 223. Carlo, St.
46. Page 267. Cañon, 218, 224, 225, 228, 230. Flowing, everything is, 236. Food, of bears, 28, 29,
47. Page 267. on ivy, 26. Lily, Washington, 103. Linosyris, 20. Lizards, 8, 41-43, 65. Magpies, 9.
48. Page 267. 74, 175. Quails, 9. Quercus Californica, 15, 257. Quercus chrysolepis, 161. Quercus D
49. Page 267. music of, 21, 49, 97, 106. Waterfalls, 34, 36, 47, 106, 118-20, 132, 187, 188, 223, 2
50. Page 272. Transcriber’s note: In the original publication, page 190 in the list of illustration