Our National Parks

by John Muir

Contents

[PREFACE]
Chapter I. [The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West]
Chapter II. [The Yellowstone National Park]
Chapter III. [The Yosemite National Park]
Chapter IV. [The Forests of the Yosemite Park]
Chapter V. [The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park]
Chapter VI. [Among the Animals of the Yosemite]
Chapter VII. [Among the Birds of the Yosemite]
Chapter VIII. [The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park]
Chapter IX. [The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks]
Chapter X. [The American Forests]
[Appendix]
[Index]

List of Illustrations

[John Muir in Muir Woods (1909)]
[Map showing the National Forests, Parks, and Monuments of the United States]
[Cassiope]
[Mt. Rainier and Alpine Firs (Abies lasiocarpa)]
[The Grand Cañon of Colorado]
[Minerva Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone Park]
[Great Falls and Grand Cañon, Yellowstone Park]
[Looking South from the Summit of Mt. Washburn, Yellowstone Park]
[A Thunder-Storm in the Sierras]
[Glacier Monument (Fairview Dome)]
[Along the Crest of the High Sierras from the Summit of Mt. Lyell (13,090 feet)]
[California Cones]
[Yellow Pine (Yosemite Valley Form)]
[A California Life-Oak]
[A Yosemite Cañon Cliff (El Capitan)]
[California Azaleas]
[Mariposa Tulips and the Snow Plant]
[Alpine Phlox and Polemonium confertum]
[A Cinnamon Bear]
[Deer Feeding in the Forest]
[A Mountain Woodchuck]
[A Trout Stream in the Sierra Nevada (King’s River)]
[Mono Desert from Mono Pass]
[Liberty Cap and Nevada Falls, Yosemite Valley]
[Water Ouzels in a Mountain Stream]
[“Fountain Snow” on the High Sierras (Mt. Lyell Group)]
[A Mountain Stream in June (Merced Creek and Vernal Falls, Yosemite)]
[A Sierra Cañon (King’s River Cañon from Lookout Peak)]
[A Giant Sequoia]
[Midsummer in the Sequoia Forest]
[“General Grant” Sequoia in General Grant National Park]
[In a Puget Sound Forest]
[Sugar Pine]

All the illustrations are from photographs made for this book by Herbert W. Gleason.