The fourth in a series of John Muir conferences sponsored by the John Muir Center for Regional Studies, University of the Pacific

Held in Martinez and Stockton, California.

The 1996 California History Institute was entitled "John Muir in Historical Perspective" and was held April 18-21, 1996. The first two days of the conference was spent in Martinez, California, at the John Muir National Historic Site sessions. The first academic sessions were followed by tours of the Strentzel-Muir home and of the Muir Cemetery. The following two days, April 20-21, academic sessions were held on the campus of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

A session devoted to graduate student presentation was presented, and a special exhibit of Muir books and artifacts was conducted by the Holt-Atherton Library, holder of the John Muir Papers. On Friday at the John Muir Historic Site, luncheon participants had the chance to visit with John Muir in person (or should we say impersonation).

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Schedule
1996
Thursday, April 18th
7:30 PM

A Paradise in the Alhambra Valley: John Muir and the Strentzels

Mark A. Foley

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

C.D. Robinson and John Muir in the Kings River Canyon

Normal L. Wilson
Lucinda M. Woodward

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Conference Speakers Roster

University of the Pacific

University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Full Program

University of the Pacific

University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Hoofed Locusts: John Muir and Mary Austin's Opposing Views of Sheep

Barbara Nelson

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

"I Found Myself Fairly Adrift": A Reflection on John Muir's Vision of Water and Wind

Daniel Duane

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

John Muir and the Pioneer Conservationists of the Pacific Northwest

Ronald Eber, Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

John Muir in New England

J. Parker Huber

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Josiah Dwight Whitney,John Muir and Clarence King, and the "Chasm of the Yosemite"

Keith Burich

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

North by Northwest with John Muir

Richard F. Fleck, Community College of Denver

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Rethinking Muir's First Summer in Yosemite

Steven J. Holmes

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Savagism in the Sierra: Native Americans in My First Summer in the Sierra and Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain

Mark Schlenz

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Self, Salvation, and Story: Writing Rescues on Glenora Peak and the Taylor Glacier

Michael Branch

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Shepherd of the Plains: John Muir at Twenty Hill Hollow

Robert E. Bauer

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Spiritual Egalitarianism: John Muir's Religious Environmentalism

Adam M. Sowards

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Spiritual Intimacy: John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr

Bonnie Johanna Gisel

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Teaching Muir and the Environment in the Public Schools: A Panel Discussion

Mark Schlenz
Daniel Duane
Barbara Nelson
Michael Branch

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

Telling Nature's Story: John Muir and the Decentering of the Romantic Self

Michael P. Branch

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

The Botanist's Last Journey: John Muir in South America and southern Africa, 1911-12.

C. Michael Hall, University of Canberra
Stephen R. Mark, National Park Service

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

The Canadian Spirit of John Muir

Connie Bresnahan

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

The Heart Of John Muir's World

Millie Stanley

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

The Importance of John Muir's First Public Lecture, Sacramento, 1876

Steve Pauly

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM

7:30 PM

The Neo-Californians: John Muir and John Swett and Their Inner World

Nicholas C. Polos

7:30 PM - 1:45 PM