Our National Parks

by John Muir

John Muir in Muir Woods (1909).

TO
CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT
STEADFAST LOVER AND DEFENDER
OF OUR COUNTRY’S FORESTS
THIS LITTLE BOOK
Is Affectionately Dedicated

NOTE

For the tables of information concerning the National Parks and National Monuments printed in the Appendix to this volume the reader is indebted to Mr. ALLEN CHAMBERLAIN, who has been at much pains to accumulate data not easily obtainable elsewhere. The map at the beginning of the book has also been compiled by Mr. Chamberlain from authoritative government sources.

PREFACE

In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild mountain forest reservations and parks, with a view to inciting the people to come and enjoy them, and get them into their hearts, that so at length their preservation and right use might be made sure.

Martinez, California
September, 1901

Map showing the National Forests, Parks, and Monuments of the United States.