My First Summer in the Sierra

by John Muir (1838-1914)

The text of the chapters of this book can be read by clicking on the name of the Chapter. There is an Introduction by Gretel Ehrlich.

My First Summer in the Sierra, by John Muir (1838-1914), first published 1911.

Introduction Gretel Ehrlich
Illustrations - I Photos by C.S. Olcott and H.W. Gleason
Illustrations - II Drawings by John Muir
Chapter I Through the Foothills with a Pack of Sheep
Chapter II In Camp on the North Fork of the Merced
Chapter III A Bread Famine
Chapter IV To the High Mountains
Chapter V The Yosemite
Chapter VI Mount Hoffman and Lake Tenaya
Chapter VII A Strange Experience
Chapter VIII The Mono Trail
Chapter IX Bloody Cañon and Mono Lake
Chapter X The Tuolumne Camp
Chapter XI Back to the Lowlands