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My First Summer in the Sierra

My First Summer in the Sierra

by John Muir

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appears in Hiking Camping, Travel, and Fiction.

In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The diary he kept while tending sheep formed the heart of this book and eventually lured thousands of Americans to visit Yosemite country.First published in 1911, My First Summer in the Sierra incorporat...

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appears in Hiking Camping, Travel, and Fiction.

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