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Steep Trails

by John MUIR (1838 - 1914)

11 - The San Gabriel Mountains

A collection of Muir's previously unpublished essays, released shortly after his death. "This volume will meet, in every way, the high expectations of Muir's readers. The recital of his experiences during a stormy night on the summit of Mount Shasta will take rank among the most thrilling of his records of adventure. His observations on the dead towns of Nevada, and on the Indians gathering their harvest of pine nuts, recall a phase of Western life that has left few traces in American literature. ... The landscapes that Muir saw ... will live in good part only in his writings, for fire, axe, plough, and gunpowder have made away with the supposedly boundless forest wildernesses and their teeming life." (From the Editor's note to the 1918 first edition)

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Listen next episodes of Steep Trails:
12 - Nevada Farms , 13 - Nevada Forests , 14 - Nevada's Timber Belt , 15 - Glacial Phenomena in Nevada , 16 - Nevada's Dead Towns , 17 - Puget Sound , 18 - The Forests of Washington , 19 - People and Towns of Puget Sound , 20 - An Ascent of Mount Rainier , 21 - The Physical & Climatic Characteristics of Oregon , 22 - The Forests of Oregon & their Inhabitants , 23 - The Rivers of Oregon , 24-1 - The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, part 1 , 24-2 - The Grand Canyon of the Colorado, part 2