Introduction 



two separate elaborations of his experiences in 

 Savannah when he camped there for a week 

 in the Bonaventure graveyard. Throughout 

 my work upon the primary and secondary 

 materials I was impressed with the scrupu- 

 lous fidelity with which he adhered to the 

 facts and impressions set down in the original 

 journal. 



Readers of Muir's writings need scarcely be 

 told that this book, autobiographically, bridges 

 the period between The Story of my Boyhood 

 and Youth and My First Summer in the Sierra, 

 However, one span of the bridge was lacking, 

 for the journal ends with Mr. Muir's arrival 

 in San Francisco about the first of April, 1868, 

 while his first summer in the Sierra was that of 

 1869. By excerpting from a letter a summary 

 account of his first visit to Yosemite, and in- 

 cluding a description of Twenty Hill Hollow, 

 where he spent a large part of his first year in 

 California, the connection is made complete. 

 The last chapter was first published as an ar- 

 ticle in the Overland Monthly of July, 1872. 

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