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Hall Young accompanied by Tlingit Indian guides launched extensive "voyages of discovery" in a 30' native canoe. Each summer Muir and his new found Presbyterian missionary friend S. Muir first came to Alaska by steamship in both 18 to pursue scientific nature studies. HJMA Visit the Haines, Alaska John Muir Association Website Which may be the salvation of the planet. The generations that follow must attend to his words and deeds Movements the monumental legacy of a uniquely sensitive spirit and towering Visionary activist, Muir Fathered the modern National Parks and Conservation

Of America, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and his personal friend Walt Whitman.Īs adventurer, explorer, scientist, author, and finally charasmatic and Russia and New Zealand, John Muir ultimately became the archetypal globalĮnshrine him with the great 19th Century Transcendentalist philosophers His adopted home of North America, and his extensive travels in Africa,Īlaska, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, India, Central and South America, The City of Haines recently became sister cities with Dunbar, Scotland, Muir's birthplace.īy memories of his boyhood home in Dunbar, Scotland, his experiences in Government documenting its existence, and he co-founded the town of Haines with traveling companion Presbyterian missionary S.Hall Young. Traveling in a dugout canoe with Tlingit Indian guides, he mapped Glacier Bay for the U.S. Muir's first of seven trips to Alaska in 1879 was highly eventful. His novel theories on glacial sculpting of the landscape ultimately proved to be true. Alaska is where Muir came to visit unspoiled wilderness. Naturalist, is widely regarded as the "Father of the National Parks Movement." He loved to "go to wild places" and experience the wondersĪlaska, like Yosemite in California, was one of Muir's favorite "it seems as if surely we must at length reach the very paradise of the poets, the abode of the blessed." "To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.". John Muir in Alaska - Haines, Alaska John Muir Association