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John Muir


Biography Report
by Ginger Wadsworth

The story takes place at Yosemite National Park from 1838-1914. John Muir
was a botanist, geologist, and writer. He had overcome earthquakes, glaciers,
and he climbs mountains. John Muir had impressed by overcoming all the
dangers like animals. He was an expert on wilderness. He knows survival
skills to stay alive. He studies nature and he writes about nature. He made a
national park system as well as the Sierra Club. He knew that the Native
Americans called the place "Pohono," or spirit of the puffing wind. At first he
called it a "dainty little fall...only about fifteen or twenty feet high." John
laughed after discovering that Bridalveil Fall drops 620 feet. He writes all
kinds of quotes about nature, for example: "I am captive, I am bound. Love of
pure unblemished Nature seems to overmaster and blur out of sight all other
objects and considerations." John works in his "scribble den." John had two
brothers and five......

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