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John Muir and Wisconsin
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John Muir, (1838-1914), was a American naturalist, explorer, and writer. He was an influential conservationist, who worked to preserve wilderness areas and wildlife from commercial exploitation and destruction. His efforts helped to establish Yosemite National Park and Sequoia National Park, both in California.
Not everyone knows that John Muir spent his youth in Wisconsin from 1849-1863—from age 11 until he was 25.
Muir was born in Scotland in 1838. His family immigrated to the United States in 1849 when he was 11 years old and settled on a farm near Portage, Wisconsin. "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth" describes his early years in rural Montello. Muir attended the University of Wisconsin from 1860 to 1863 but did not graduate. When he left college, he took extensive walking trips to study nature, especially plants. In 1867 he made a walking trip from Indianapolis to the Gulf of Mexico to observe the plants, animals, and physical features of the country. During this trip Muir kept extensive journals, which were published after his death as A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916)
Naturalist, inventor, writer and conservationist, Muir is recognized as the father of the national park system and founder of the Sierra Club.
For more on John Muir and the Sierra Club, try the Sierra Club’s John Muir Exhibit
