Twenty-three letters originally published serially in The Pioneer: or, California monthly magazine, Jan. 1854-Dec. 1855. First published in book form in 1922 under title: The Shirley letters from California mines in 1851-1852.

The Shirley Letters: Being Letters Written in 1851-1852 from the California Mines

Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

"Dame Shirley"

Biographies & Memoirs

Gibbs M. Smith, Inc.

Scenes in America Deserta

Banham,Reyner

Coyote's Canyon

Telford, John

Williams, Tempest

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty

Introduction by John Nichols. Afterword by Edward Abbey. pp. 228. Black and white illustrations. Collection of letters and biographical information about the artist who disappeared in the Utah desert in 1934 at the age of 21. Ruess traded prints with Ansel Adams and lived for a time with Maynard Dixon and his wife Dorothea Lange.

Everett Ruess: A Vagabond For Beauty

W. L. Rusho

Arts & Literature

One of the world’s foremost writers of the mountaineering essay—his writings are finely wrought expressions of the transcendental joy he found in the mountains—John Muir also founded the Sierra Club in 1892 as a way of supporting his belief that Americans must preserve national parks throughout the country in order that future generations might be spiritually inspired. Characterized by an iron endurance and an insatiable curiosity, Muir vowed to spend his days studying God’s unwritten Bible—nature—or what he termed the "University of the Wilderness." Muir early on learned to keep a journal in the manner of Emerson, but he is also considered one of America’s pioneer glaciologists, an interest he gained while wandering in Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada mountains. Whether frozen in a subzero blizzard on Mount Shasta, seemingly doomed on the unforgiving slopes of Mount Ritter, or exhilarated by the ice-shapes viewed from the summit of Mount Rainier, Muir reveled in the mountain experience.This volume contains eleven mountain essays that include both adventurous narrative, joyful exultation, and descriptions of natural features such as alpine soil beds, ancient glaciers and living glaciers, and mountain sculpture. In each, Muir maintains a careful and subtle balance between the physical aspects of ascending and the more symbolic observations of the sublimity of his surroundings. Mountains are for him a source of discovery that provide an affirmation of the human spirit. 

Mountaineering Essays (Literature of the American Wilderness)

Sports & Outdoors

John, Muir

Mountaineering

The New Utah's Heritage Teacher's Guide

Alan Griffin

A pictorial exposition of the natural wonders that fashion the Utah wilderness, supplemented by personal thoughts on the reasons for its conservation

SLICKROCK

History

Hyde, Philip

Abbey, Edward

Americas

Fall Out of Heaven

Cheuse,Alan

The nineteenth-century mountaineer illuminates the customs of the Indians of Ecuador while recording his ascents of Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, Cayambe, and other Andean peaks

Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator

Edward Whymper

Science & Math

Describes the unique qualities of old growth forests, discusses the forest ecosystem, and argues that old growth forests should be protected from logging

Secrets of the old growth forest

Kelly, D. & G. Braasch

Biological Sciences

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