John of the Mountains; The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition, 1st Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. [8.75x6in], xxii, 459 pp., Eight plates with nine black and white images including frontispiece image of Muir in 1908, index; light gray linen cloth covers with stamped blue lines and red lettering on front and spine, fore-edgBostone untrimmed; Pictorial toned dust jacket with image of John Muir and black lettering on front and spine, reviews of John Muir on rear; Minimal shelf wear to covers edges and corners, slight bleeding of blue ink from printing process on front cover, very light age-toning to text; Dust jacket has small chips and closed tears to top and bottom of spine and corners, spine lightly faded, light age-toning and soiling to rear and edges, not priced clipped. [Kimes 379]. Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1881-1945) was a librarian and closely associated with the John Muir Association. Wolfe was asked by William Frederic Bade, Literary Executor of John Muir's works, to edit John Muir's unpublished journals. This book was the result of that work.

John Muir (1838-1914) was a well-known naturalist, preservationist, author, founder of the Sierra Club. His writings and advocacy to Congress led to establish Yosemite as a National Park in 1890, but, unlike Yellowstone, under California State control. Over the next decade, Muir founded the Sierra Club to promote environmental protections to wilderness areas, wrote several books on his travels and developed influence with government and business leaders. In 1903, on a trip to Yosemite with President Theodore Roosevelt, he described the State's mismanagement and exploitation of the National Park an pressed for Federal control, and in 1905 Yosemite was expanded and placed under the control of the Department of Interior.