| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.2

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John Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures. Edited by Sally M. Miller and Daryl Morrison. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xii + 281 pages. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth $29.95; Reconnecting with John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice. By Terry Gifford. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2006. x + 201 pages. Appendices, notes, index. Cloth $39.95.

Not many figures in American environmental history have received as much attention by historians, biographers, and literary critics as John Muir. Because the basic elements of his biography have been well known since the publication of Linnie Marsh Wolfe's Son of the Wilderness (A.A. Knopf, 1945), subsequent scholars have worked to understand Muir in the light his times, or theirs, and suggest why understanding Muir continues to be important in contemporary settings. These two contributions to John Muir scholarship continue that tradition, but take two very different tacks.

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