My First Summer in the Sierra

The journal of nature lover John Muir who spent the summer of 1869 walking California’s Sierra Nevada range. From French Bar to Mono Lake and the Yosemite Valley, Muir was awestruck by everything he saw. The antics of the smallest “insect people” amazed him as much as stunted thousand year old Juniper trees growing with inconceivable tenacity from tiny cracks in the stone.