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John Muir

Yosemite Valley, CA (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)

I guess that most people, including the majority of Americans, don’t know who John Muir was. I consider him to be an American hero — a man who embodies those characteristics that make the United States the greatest nation on earth.

Born in Scotland in 1838, his family migrated to the the US when he was 11 years old. He grew up on a Wisconsin farm. Continue reading “John Muir”