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Tramping Through Our National Parks With John Muir

by | Jul 2, 2008 | Travel & Preservation

From Yosemite Valley to Los Angeles, California.
Tourists that spend their money to see rocks and falls are fools,” a shepherd told John Muir in 1869 during Muir’s fabled First Summer in the Sierra. Since I like rocks and waterfalls, and have often been called a fool, I don’t believe such a statement. I can’t help but wonder though what John Muir would think about our national parks today. Not so much the parks, but


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