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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