John Muir Founds the Sierra Club
Teaching American History
MAY 28, 2024
Naturalist John Muir, whose popular magazine articles had done much to bring about the 1890 Congressional act creating Yosemite National Park , was unanimously named president of the new organization. Muir in fact had been pressed into service by Robert Underwood Johnson , associate editor of the influential New York magazine The Century.
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