1900's Media | 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...