John Muir Writings

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

by John Muir (1916)

Contents

• Illustrations
• Introduction

1. Kentucky Forests and Caves
2. Crossing the Cumberland Mountains
3. Through the River Country of Georgia
4. Camping among the Tombs
5. Through Florida Swamps and Forests
6. Cedar Keys
7. A Sojourn in Cuba
8. By a Crooked Route to California
9. Twenty Hill Hollow

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf

By

John Muir

Edited By
William Frederic Badè

With Illustrations

Boston And New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1916

Copyright, 1916, By Houghton Mifflin Company

All Rights Reserved

Published November 1916

Illustrations

John Muir About 1870 Frontispiece

From a photograph by Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco, Cal.

Map Showing Route Of Walk to the Gulf

Kentucky Oaks

From a photograph by Theodore Eitel

Entrance To Mammoth Cave

From a photograph. By courtesy of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad

The Clinch River, Tennessee

From a photograph. By courtesy of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad

A Southern Pine

From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason

Spanish Moss ( Tillandsia )

From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason

In Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah

From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason

By The St. John’s River In Eastern Florida

From a photograph by Herbert W. Gleason

A Florida Palmetto Hummocks Or “Hammock”

From a photograph by Herbert K. Job

Lime Key, Florida

From Mr. Muir’s sketch in the original journal

Morro Castle And Entrance To Havana Harbor

From a photograph

Twenty Hill Hollow, Merced County, California

From a sketch by Mr. Muir

The colored half-tone of a Florida-sunset which appears on the cover is from a water-color by Miss Amelia M. Watson.

Bibliographical Information

Muir, John (1838-1914). A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916). xxvi, 219 pp. col. front., plates, port., map, facsims. 24 cm. Library of Congress Catalog Number F215.M95. LCCN 16023580.

Scanned and converted to HTML by Dan E. Anderson, 1996, from a copy in the UCSD Library.