The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

by John Muir

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Index

• America,
  • early interest in, [51-53];
  • emigration to, [53-59].
• Anderson, Mr., [216], [217].
• Anemone patens var. Nuttalliana, [119-121].
• Animals,
  • man’s tyranny over, [83], [84], [109], [110], [181];
  • accidents to, [133-136];
  • the taming of, [185], [186];
  • cleanliness, [187], [188];
  • endurance of cold, [189], [190].
• Apples, wild, [124].
• Audubon, John James, on the passenger pigeon, [52], [53], [162-166].
• Aurora borealis, [205], [206].
  
• Badgers, [183].
• Bathing, [16], [17];
  • of animals, [187], [188];
  • of man, [188], [189].
  • See also Swimming.
• Bear, black, [171], [183], [184].
• Bees, [234-239].
• Beetle, whirligig, [114].
• Berries, [122], [123].
• Bible, the, [242-244].
• Birds,
  • removing their eggs, [64], [65];
  • met with in Wisconsin, [64-75], [137-167];
  • accidents to, [131-135];
  • bathing, [187], [188].
• Birds’-nesting, [27], [28], [44-48].
• Blackbird,
  • red-winged, [142], [143];
  • hunting, [175].
• Blacksmith,
  • the minister, [108];
  • his cruelty to his brother, [214-217].
• Bluebird,
  • nest, [62], [139];
  • a favorite, [138], [139].
• Boat, [115].
• Boatmen (insects), [115].
• Bobolink, [140], [141].
• Bob-white, or quail,
  • accidents to, [133-135];
  • habits, [151], [152].
• Books, [241-245].
• Botany, first lessons in, [280-283].
• Boys, savagery of, [23-26].
• Brush fires, [76], [77].
• Bull-bat, or nighthawk, [69-71].
• Bullfrogs, [74].
• Butterfly-weed, [122].
  
• Cats,
  • a boy’s cruel prank, [23-26];
  • a cat with kittens, [77], [78];
  • old Tom and the loon, [155-158].
• Charlie, the feeble-minded man, [214-217].
• Chickadee, [143], [144].
• Chickens, prairie, [145], [146].
• Chipmunk, [193], [194].
• Choke-damp, [232], [233].
• Chores, [202-204].
• Christian Philosopher, The, by Thomas Dick, [242].
• Clocks, [252-258].
• Clover, [199], [200].
• Combe’s Physiology, [188].
• Consumption, [212], [213].
• Coons, [170], [184], [185].
• Copperhead, [110], [111].
• Corn, husking, [105], [106].
• Cows, sympathy with, [94].
• Crane, sandhill, [68], [97].
• Crops, Wisconsin, [199], [200].
• Cypripedium, [121], [122].
  
• Dandy Doctor terror, the, [6-9].
• Davel Brae, [28-30].
• Deer, [169-174].
• Desk, a student’s, [283], [284].
• Dick, Thomas, his Christian Philosopher, [242].
• Dog, Watch, the mongrel, [77-83].
• Duck, wood, [147], [148].
• Ducks, wild, [147], [148].
• Dunbar, Scotland,
  • a boyhood in, [1-55];
  • later visit to, [37], [38].
• Dunbar Castle, [17].
• Duncan, William, [233].
  
• Eagle, bald, and fish hawk, [51], [52].
• Early-rising machine, [252-256], [284].
  
• Ferns, [122].
• Fiddler, story of a Scotch, [130], [131].
• Fighting, boys’, [28-30], [33-37].
• Fireflies, [71], [72].
• Fires,
  • brush, [76], [77];
  • household, [204];
  • grass, [230];
  • lighting the schoolhouse fire, [277-279].
• Fishes, [115-117].
• Fishing, [116], [117].
• Flicker, [66].
• Flowers,
  • at Dunbar, [12-14];
  • wild, in Wisconsin, [118-122].
• Food question, the, [241-244].
• Fountain Lake, [62], [115-118], [124-129].
• Fountain Lake Meadow, [62], [71].
• Fox River, [123], [141], [147].
• Foxes, [182], [183].
• Frogs, love-songs of, [74].
• Fuller, [129].
  
• Ghosts, [18], [19].
• Gilrye, Grandfather, [2-4], [43], [54], [55].
• Glow-worms, [72].
• Goose, Canada, [149-151].
• Gophers, [194-198].
• Grandfather. See Gilrye, Grandfather.
• Gray, Alexander, [60], [61].
• Green Lake, [103], [104].
• Griswold, Judge, [280-282].
• Grouse, ruffed, or partridge, drumming, [72].
• Grubs, [229].
  
• Half-witted man, [214-217].
• Hare, Dr., [7].
• Hares, [181], [182].
• Hawk, fish, and bald eagle, [51], [52].
• Hawks, [66], [177].
• Hell, warnings as to, [76], [77].
• Hen-hawk, [66].
• Hickory, [123].
• Hickory Hill,
  • purchase and development of the farm, [226-234];
  • life at, [234-263];
  • vacation work at, [279].
• Holabird, Mr., [148].
• Holidays, [174].
• Honey-bees, [234-239].
• Horses,
  • the pony Jack, [95-102];
  • Nob and Nell, [103-105], [107-109].
• Hunt, the side, [168], [169].
• Hunting expeditions, [171].
• Hyla, [75].
  
• Ice, whooping of, [207], [208].
• Ice-storm, [206], [207].
• “Inchcape Bell, The,” [5], [6].
• Indian moccasins (flowers), [121], [122].
• Indians,
  • hunting muskrats, [81], [82];
  • killing pigs, [88], [89];
  • stealing a horse, [103-105];
  • getting ducks and wild rice, [147];
  • hunting coons and deer, [170];
  • fond of muskrat flesh, [180];
  • rights of, [218-220].
• Industry, excessive, [222-226].
• Insects, [113-115].
• Inventions,
  • on the farm, [248-261];
  • introduced to the world, [260-272];
  • the clock fire, [277-279];
  • at the University, [283-286].
• 
  
• Jack, the pony, [95-102].
• Jay, blue, nest, [62-65].
  
• Kettle-holes, [98].
• Kingbird, [66], [67].
• Kingston, Wis., [59-61].
  
• Lady’s-slippers, [121], [122].
• Lake Mendota, [129].
• Landlord, a friendly, [264], [265].
• Lark. See Skylark.
• Lauderdale, Lord, his gardens, [2].
• Lawson, Peter, [13], [14].
• Lawson boys, [126], [127], [175].
• Lightning-bugs, [71], [72].
• Lilium superbum, [122].
• Linnet, red-headed, [187], [188].
• “Llewellyn’s Dog,” [4], [5].
• Locomotive, riding on a, [267-269].
• Loon, [153-158].
• Lyon, Mr., teacher, [30], [37].
  
• Maccoulough’s Course of Reading, [51].
• McRath, Mr., [184], [185].
  • State Fair at, [260], [261], [269-272];
  • life in, [273-287].
• Madison, Wis.,
• Mair, George, [218], [219].
• Mallard, [147].
• Marmot, mountain, [186].
• Meadowlark, [143].
  • the Scotch religious view of, [249], [250].
• Meals, [42], [43];
• Melons, [200].
  • his cruelty to his brother, [214-217].
• Minister, the blacksmith, [108];
• Moccasins, Indian, [121], [122].
• Mosquitoes, [113], [114].
• Mouse, European field, with young, [3].
  • meadow, or field, [106], [107];
  • eaten by a horse, [107].
• Mouse,
• Muir, Anna, [56].
• Muir, Anne (Gilrye) (mother), [11], [15], [16], [20], [22], [23], [28], [49], [256], [259], [260], [263].
• Muir, Daniel (brother), [56], [115], [146], [223].
  • admonitions, [76], [77];
  • Scotch correction, [84-87];
  • as a church-goer, [107], [108];
  • his advice as to swimming, [124];
  • his ideas about books and the Bible, [241-244];
  • rules as to going to bed and getting up, [245-251];
  • his religious view of meals, [249], [250];
  • and his son’s inventions, [253-258];
  • his parting advice to his son, [262];
  • theories on bringing up children, [263].
• Muir, Daniel (father), [10], [11], [24], [31], [43], [44], [49], [53-56], [58-61], [83], [90], [94-96], [100-102], [115], [148], [191], [195], [203], [205], [218], [222], [224], [226], [231-234];
  • kills a deer, [172-174].
• Muir, David, [11], [20-22], [43], [53], [54], [56], [62], [78], [85-87], [97], [110], [115], [125], [126], [223], [231], [263], [264];
  • fondness for the wild, [1], [49], [50];
  • earliest recollections, [1-3];
  • first school, [3-10], [28-30];
  • favorite stories in reading-book, [4-6];
  • favorite hymns and songs, [9], [10];
  • early fondness for flowers, [12-14];
  • an early accident, [15], [16];
  • bathing, [16], [17];
  • boyish sports, [17-26], [40], [41];
  • grammar school, [30-39];
  • birds’-nesting, [44-48];
  • early interest in America, [51-53];
  • emigration to America, [53-59];
  • settling in Wisconsin, [58-62];
  • life on the Fountain Lake farm, [62-226];
  • escaping a whipping, [84-87];
  • learning to ride, [95-100];
  • learning to swim, [124-129];
  • ambition in mowing and cradling, [202], [223];
  • put to the plough, [220], [221];
  • hard work, [221-224];
  • running the breaking plough, [227-229];
  • life at Hickory Hill, [230-263];
  • adventure in digging a well, [231-234];
  • educating himself, [240-247];
  • early rising proves a way out of difficulties, [245-251];
  • inventions, [248-261];
  • deciding on an occupation, [259-261];
  • determines to take his inventions to the State Fair, [260-262];
  • starting out into the world, [262-269];
  • at the State Fair, [269-272];
  • enters a machine-shop at Prairie du Chien, [272], [273];
  • odd jobs at Madison, [273], [274];
  • enters the University, [274-276];
  • life at the University, [276-287];
  • teaching school, [277-279];
  • vacation work at Hickory Hill, [279];
  • first lessons in botany, [280-283];
  • more inventions, [283-286];
  • enters the University of the Wilderness, [286], [287].
• Muir, John,
• Muir, Margaret, [56], [253].
• Muir, Mary, [56].
• Muir, Sarah, [15], [56], [127].
• Muir’s Lake. See Fountain Lake.
  • an Indian hunting, [81], [82];
  • habits, [177-181].
• Muskrats,
• 
  
• Nighthawk, [69-71].
• Nob and Nell, the horses, [103-105], [107-109].
• Nuthatches, [144], [145].
• Nuts, [123], [124].
  
• Oriole, Baltimore, [143].
• Owls, [145].
• Oxen, humanity in, [90-94].
  
• Pardeeville, Wis., [263-266].
• Partridge, or ruffed grouse, drumming, [72].
• Pasque-flower, [119-121].
• Phrenology, [266].
  • Audubon’s account, [52], [53], [162-166];
  • extermination, [83];
  • in Wisconsin, [158-162];
  • Pokagon’s account, [166], [167].
• Pickerel, [116], [117].
  • the breaking plough, [227-229].
• Pigeon, passenger,
• Ploughing, [201], [202], [220], [221];
• Plutarch’s Lives, [241], [242].
• Pokagon, his account of the passenger pigeon, [166], [167].
• Portage, Wis., [93], [94], [108].
• Prairie chickens, [145], [146].
• Prairie du Chien, [272], [273].
• Pucaway Lake, [147].
  
• Quail. See Bob-white.
  
• Rabbits, [181], [189].
• Raccoon, [170], [184], [185].
• Rails, splitting, [221], [222].
• Rattlesnakes, [110].
• Reid, Mr., [213], [214].
• Ridgway, Robert, [64].
• Road-making, [209].
• Robin, American, [139].
• Robin, European, [27], [28].
  
• Scootchers, [20-22].
• Scotch, the, their ideas of self-punishment, [130], [131].
• Scotch, the language, [57].
• Scottish Grays, [27].
• Self-punishment, [130], [131].
• Settlers in Wisconsin, [211-220], [222-226].
• Shrike, a burglarious, [195-198].
• Siddons, Mungo, [8], [9], [12], [30].
• Skaters (insects), [115].
• Skylark, [46-48].
• Snake, blow, [111].
• Snakes, [110-112].
• Snipe, a case of difficult parturition, [134].
• Snipe, jack, [73].
• Snowstorms, [206].
• Southey, Robert, his “Inchcape Bell,” [5], [6].
• Sow, the old, [88], [89].
• Sparrow, song, [143].
• Spermophile, or ground squirrel, a frozen, [135], [136].
• Spirit-rappings, [210], [211].
• Squirrel, flying, [192].
• Squirrel, gray, [190-192].
• Squirrel, ground. See Gophers and Spermophile.
• State Fair, [260], [261], [269-272].
• Stirling, Professor, [275], [276].
• Strawberries, wild, [122].
• Sunfish, [116].
• Swamps, [208], [209].
• Swans, wild, [149].
• Swimming, [124-129].
  
• Tanager, scarlet, [143].
• Thermometer, a large, [258], [259].
• Thrasher, brown, [139], [140].
• Thrush, brown. See Thrasher.
• Thunder-storms, [75], [76].
• Trap, the steel, [180].
• Tuberculosis, [212], [213].
• Turk’s-turban, [122].
• Turtle, snapping, [80].
  
• Vaccination, [11].
  
• Water-boatmen, [115].
• Water-bugs, [114].
• Water-lily, [118], [119].
• Well, digging a, [231-234].
• Whippings, [84-87].
• Whip-poor-will, [68], [69].
• Wiard, an inventor, [272], [273].
• Wilson, Alexander, account of fish hawk and bald eagle, [51], [52].
  • life in, [62-287].
• Wind-flower, [119-121].
  • drowning, [131-133];
  • shot and resurrected, [175], [176].
• Wisconsin, settling in, [58-62];
• Woodpecker, red-headed, [66];
• Woodpeckers, nest-holes and young, [65], [66].
• Wrecks, [38], [39].

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