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John Muir’s Quest to Save the Great Outdoors

HISTORY This Week

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Guardians of the Valley

John Muir was known for taking terrible food when he went camping. He arrived in Yosemite as a 30-year-old college dropout, earning $30 a month plus room and board. The year after Muir moves to Yosemite, the transcontinental railroad finally reaches California. In its wake, it's left millions of dead buffalo and felled trees.

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