Muir, John, 1838-1914.2010-04-292010-04-291913http://hdl.handle.net/10605/280Illustrations: John Muir (from a photograph copyrighted by J. Edward B. Greene) -- Muir's Lake (Fountain Lake) and the Garden Meadow -- Our first Wisconsin home -- Clock with hand rising and setting with the sun, invented by the author in his boyhood -- Barometer invented by the author in his boyhood -- Combined thermometer, hygrometer, barometer, and pyrometer, invented by the author in his boyhood -- The Hickory Hill House, build in 1857 -- Thermometer invented by the author in his boyhood -- Self-setting sawmill. Model built by the author in his boyhood -- My desk, made and used at the Wisconsin State University.This book is part of the Natural History Collection, a book collection which supports the James Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World.An autobiography which covers Muir's early childhood in Scotland, his emigration to the United States, his life on the farm in Wisconsin, and his student life at the University of Wisconsin.TextThe images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. To use these images in any form, an attribution of "Courtesy of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library" must accompany the image.Muir, John, 1838-1914--Childhood and youth.Naturalists--United States--Biography.Conservationists--United States--Biography.Frontier and pioneer life--Wisconsin.Book