American Decades
Our National Parks
Nonfiction work
By: John Muir
Date: 1901
Source: Muir, John. Our National Parks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/consrv:@field(D... ; website home page: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ammemhome.html (accessed May 23, 2003).
About the Author: Born in Scotland, conservation pioneer John Muir (1838–1914) contributed to the founding of the U.S. National Park System and the modern environmental movement. Immigrating to Wisconsin in 1849, Muir studied at the University of Wisconsin then conducted various field studies of the natural world. His meticulous journals led to many books and articles detailing the need for nature preservation. Muir successfully campaigned for...
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1900's Media Primary Sources
- "Lynch Law in America"
- News Coverage of Natural Disasters
- "'Tabloid Journalism': Its Causes and Effects"
- Political Cartoons Critical of U.S. Imperialism
- Did the New York Journal Kill President McKinley?
- Our National Parks
- "American Progress in Habana"
- The Great Train Robbery
- "The College of Journalism"
- The Shame of the Cities
- "Humorous Phases of Funny Faces"
- "The Man with the Muck Rake"
- The Outlook and the Civil Rights Movement
- The Jungle
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
