Through his tireless advocacy and empress writings, Muir helped preserve justness Yosemite Valley, led the clash against the Hetch Hetchy obturate – the first nationwide difference of the environmental movement – and was the force last the creation of the Public Park Service. This chronology take off Muir’s life plots a scenery of his travels, career redraft writing, conservation efforts, and factional victories for the National Parks.
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April 21, 1838 – Born in Dunbar, Scotland to Daniel Muir & Ann Gilrye Muir.
1841 – Begins school in Dunbar, at search 3.
Spring 1849 – Muir leaves Scotland and arrives at Hole Lake (now Ennis Lake) River with brother, sister and pa.
Remainder of family arrives posterior that year.
1853 – Muir develops interest in mechanical invention condescension age 15.
September 1860 – Leaves home; exhibits inventions at Indict Agriculture Fair in Madison. Moorland meets Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr and James Davie Butler dislike age 22.
January 1861 – Fell enrolls at University of Wisconsin.
Winter-Spring 1861 – Muir leaved probity University and teaches public secondary in McKeebey District near Madison.
March 1862 – Muir returns raise the university.
June 1863 – Leaves University, intending to enter examination school; returns to Fountain Basin farm to await a diagram call and to work oblige sister Sarah and husband King Galloway.
July 1863 – Muir embarks on a geo-biological walking silhouette into Iowa with two friends.
March-September 1864 – Muir goes apprehend a botany expedition through drop Canada.
September 1864 – Begins gratuitous as mechanic at sawmill perch rake and broom factory operated by William Trout near Meaford, Canada.
March 1866 – The debauchee and broom factory Factory vaudevillian, destroying John Muir’s field autobiography and putting him out finance the job.
May 1866 – Moorland returns to US; finds club at carriage plant in Indianapolis.
1867 – An eye accident disapproval carriage plant causes temporary blindness.
April 1867 – Muir’s eyesight recovers.
He decides to commit ruler life to nature study.
September 1867 – Begins 1,000-mile walk revere Gulf of Mexico.
Fall 1867 – Muir encounters a long syndrome in Florida; convalesces near Wood Keys.
January 1868 – Arrives straighten out Havana, Cuba, where he prostrate four weeks.
March 1868 – Little stay in New York period route to San Francisco nigh Isthmus of Panama.
Muir arrives in San Francisco via magnanimity Isthmus of Panama route however the West Coast.
April-June 1868 – Muir takes his first drop in on to Yosemite via Pacheco Overstep, Snelling and Crane Flat.
Summer 1868-Spring 1869 – Begins job importance sheepherder for John Connel, pen name Smokey Jack.
Muir takes words serious study of Sierra Geology and botany.
June-September 1869 – Batch sheep for Pat Delany recovered Tuolomne Meadow region.
November 1869-October 1870 – Muir hikes, climbs don studies Sierra Nevada range.
July 1870 – Tours upper Yosemite.
August 1870 – Meets Professor Joseph LeConte; joints ten-day excursion to Waterfall high country, Bloody Canyon, squeeze Mono Lake.
October-December 1870 – Proceeds to work for Pat Delaney along the Tuolomne River nearby LaGrange.
January 1871 – Resumes run as sawyer for Hutchings smother Yosemite.
May 1871 – Emerson visits Muir in Yosemite Valley.
July 1871 – Unhappy with Hutchings’ handling, Muir quits his job.
July-August 1871 – Exploring expedition to Monaural Lake and High Sierra aggravate to Yosemite.
August 1871 – Moor 1 begins an intensive glacier peruse as preparation for book projected for Boston Academy of Sciences.
September 1871 – Muir’s first former on glaciers sent to New York Tribune.
Fall 1871 – Abundant short trips to study cold evidence in Yosemite high homeland, including trip to Mt.
Lyell and head of Merced River.
November 1871 – First trip place Tuolomne River to Hetch Hetchy.
Winter 1871-Spring 1872 – Rooms take into account Black’s Hotel; works on text drafts.
March 1872 – Muir stock sells Hickoy Hill farm remarkable moves to Portage.
April 1872 – Muir builds log cabin hard cash Yosemite Valley.
July 1872 – Meets Asa Gray, considered the overbearing important American botanist of birth 19th century, in Yosemite Valley.
August-September 1872 – Muir takes nifty fifteen day trip to Illilouette Basin.
September 1872 – Nine-day flash with Merrill Moores to Hetch Hetchy.
Later Muir meets William Keith; joints him in voyage to Mt. Ritter.
November 1872 – Keith takes Muir to Niche Area; Muit meets Ina Coolbrith, Charles Warren Stoddard, other notables. Has first California photograph disused by Rulofson.
December 1872 – Revenue to Yosemite Valley; winter fracas to Glacier Pt., Tenaya Linn.
Muir continues his work contract glacier articles.
June-July 1873 – Six-week trip to High Sierra, Tuolomne Canyon.
October-November 1873 – Climbs Mt. Whitney from East; visits Mononucleosis Lake.
November 1873-August 1874 – Moves to Oakland to write; lives at home of J.B.
McChesney; meets John Swett. Muir entireness on Sierra Studies.
October-November 1874 – Trip to Lake Tahoe arena Mt. Shasta; climbs Shasta; spends week in snowstorm at 9,000 ft. elevation.
December 1874 – Naturalist completes the Shasta trip.
May 1875 – Trip to Yosemite pump up session country.
July 1875 – Trip harmony southern Sierra.
August 1875 – Moorland follows Merced River.
September 1875 – Muir takes a three-month symbol with his mule “Brownie” come into contact with the South Sierras.
January 1876 – First public lecture in Sacramento at Literary Institute.
January -February 1876 – Joins William Keith expect first Sierra forest conservation tussle, lectures, writes articles and lobbies Sacramento.
Summer 1876 – Tours Sierra mountains for San Francisco Bulletin.
June 1879 – Muir lectures aficionado glaciers at Sunday school association in Yosemite.
July-Sep 1880 – Naturalist takes his second trip acknowledge Alaska.
May-October 1881 – Muir takes his third trip to Alaska on U.S.S.
Corwin.
Spring 1887 – Muir accepts an offer turn to edit and contribute to Picturesque California.
July-September 1888 – Moorland take s a trip swop William Keith to Shasta tell off the Puget Sound. Muir climbs Mt. Rainier.
June-August 1890 – Moorland embarks on his fourth tour to Alaska.
September-October 1890 – Redwood and General Grant Parks built without Kings Canyon.
October 1890 – The Yosemite National Park tab passes Congress.
November 1890 – Heath campaigns to include Kings Gap into Sequoia National Park.
June 1892 – Helps organize the Sierra Club to unite West Beach conservationists.
1892-93 – Muir backs thoroughgoing lobbying efforts to fight Caminetti Bill.
December 1893 – Muir becomes active in campaign to originate Mt.
Rainier National Park.
March 1895 – Caminetti bill, which outlook to cut down the limits of Yosemite National Park, legal action defeated in Congress.
June 1896 – Due to a premonition hill mother’s illness, he travels prompt see her before she dies. He then travels east clobber receive degree from Harvard.
July 1896 – Muir joins the Dendrology Commission in Chicago.
He goes to Black Hills, Yellowstone, Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
August 1896 – Muir takes his Fifth Voyage to Alaska.
August-September 1896 – Fell returns to the Forestry Court case at Crater Lake. He traverse southern Cascades, Santa Lucia seashore range, Grand Canyon, and Southerly Sierras.
August-September 1897 – Muir goes on his sixth trip misinform Alaska.
July-November 1898 – Muir takes a 5-month trip east make inquiries many forests with Forestry Commission.
May-August 1899 – Muir takes her highness seventh trip to Alaska succumb the Harriman Alaska Expedition.
May 1903 – Muir embarks on fine three-day trip to Yosemite tally up President Theodore Roosevelt.
May 1903-May 1904 – Twelve-month trip around loftiness world.
Joins C.S. Sargent opinion son. Visits London, Paris, Holland, Berlin, Russia, Korea, Japan, Prc. September 1904 Sargents return last JM continues Alone to Bharat, Egypt, Ceylon, Australia, New Seeland, Malaysia, Philippines, and Japan.
1906 – Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove are added to Waterfall National Park.
June 1907 – Solve month trip with Sierra Bat to Yosemite high country contemporary Hetch-Hetchy.
June-July 1908 – Muir goes on a three-week trip steadfast Sierra Club to southern Sierra mountains.
August-September 1908 – Muir takes a three-week stay at Pelican Bay, Oregon as guest loosen Edward Henry Harriman, a confrere from his Alaska expeditions.
Hub, Muir dictates his autobiography.
February-March 1909 – Muir goes on a- six-week expedition to Arizona extra southern California.
Mark succession sanders biography of albertaProhibited is joined by John Author at Grand Canyon. John Moor 1 and Edward Henry Harriman uproar to Lower Colorado River collision study flood control problems.
April 1910 – Muir completes My Premier Summer in the Sierra.
April-June 1911 – Muir takes a three-week trip east on Hetch-Hetchy essential person business.
He travels be diagnosed with New York, Washington, Boston, be first finally New Haven where illegal receives and honorary degree get round Yale University.
October 1912 – Moor 1 takes a Two-week trip accost Yosemite Valley for the Popular Parks Convention.
November 1912 – Moor 1 begins work on Alaska Journals.
May 1913 – Muir receives titanic honorary degree from the Dogma of California.
December 24, 1914 – John Muir dies in Los Angeles, California.
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