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TO CHARLES SPRAGUE SARGENT STEADFAST LOVER AND DEFENDER OF OUR COUNTRY'S FORESTS THIS LITTLE BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

	CONTENTS Preface I. The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West II. The Yellowstone National Park III. The Yosemite National Park IV. The Forests of the Yosemite Park V. The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park VI. Among the Animals of the Yosemite VII. Among the Birds of the Yosemite VIII. The Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park IX. The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks X. The American Forests		Buy this book at Amazon.com Our National Parks Paperback
	LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Sequoias, Mariposa Grove Forest Reserves and National Parks in Western United States From a map furnished by the courtesy of the United States Geological Survey. Pavement of Basaltic Columns Worn by Glacial Action, Yosemite National Park Timber Line at Thousand Islet Lake, near Mr. Bitter, Yosemite National Park Azalea Thicket, Yosemite National Park One of the Kings River Fountains, Sierra Forest Reserve View from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park Yosemite Woods in Winter Columne Cascade, Yosemite National Park Young Big Tree Felled for Shingles Loghouse of One Log, Giant Forest of the Kaweah Road through the Sequoias, Mariposa Grove   Return to the The Mountain Top Library

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1901

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY JOHN MUIR ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published November, 1901.

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

The text and illustrations were digitized by The Library of Congress for Amenican Memory.
The text was then corrected and formated and the images were converted by myself.