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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 21 April 1838
- Died
- 24 December 1914
- Place of birth
- Dunbar
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Muir
- Mother
- Ann Gilrye
- Spouse
- Louisa Wanda Strentzel
- Movement
- environmentalism
- Field of work
- conservation, environmental protection, geology, ecology
- Occupation
- botanist, geologist, explorer, inventor, essayist, writer, autobiographer, preservationist, mountaineer, glaciologist, ecologist, philosopher
- Religion
- Christianity
- Awards
- California Hall of Fame
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- collection items at
- Herbarium, Missouri Botanical Garden, Harvard University Herbaria, California Academy of Sciences herbarium, Natural History Museum, National Museum of Natural History, Zürich Herbaria
- country for sport
- Scotland
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Library of the World's Best Literature, 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, The Encyclopedia Americana, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, New International Encyclopedia, The New Student's Reference Work
- employer
- James Mason Hutchings
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sierra Club, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Mount Whitney Club
- name in native language
- John Muir
- number of children
- 2
- participant in
- Harriman Alaska Expedition
- place of burial
- Muir-Strentzel Hanna Cemetery
- residence
- Yosemite Valley, Martinez, Portage
- significant person
- Jeanne C. Smith Carr
- sport
- mountaineering
- topic's main category
- Category:John Muir
- work location
- Meaford, Indianapolis
- writing language
- English
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- My First Summer in the Sierra
- A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf
- The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
- A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
- Our National Parks
- Stickeen: An Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier
- The Cruise of the Corwin
- The Yosemite
- Travels in Alaska
- Travels in Alaska
- The mountains of California
- The wild sheep of the Sierra
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