Roosevelt and Muir Visit Yosemite
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Ecology and the Environment Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Environmental Issues, Travel, Recreation
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Ecology, Environment, Conservation
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950
- Geographical Location: California
- Date: May, 1903
Article abstract: Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir camped together in Yosemite, an event that contributed to the future preservation of Yosemite and the High Sierra.
Summary of Event
In May, 1903, two of America’s most notable citizens took a walk in the woods and mountains of one of America’s natural monuments, California’s Yosemite National Park. John Muir, a self-educated, Scottish-born naturalist who had been reared in rural Wisconsin, and Theodore Roosevelt, a Harvard University-educated aristocrat from New York who had become president of the...
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