A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (John Muir - CL) trial by Graham Smith

by Graham Smith

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the Cashtown Inn soon became an important tavern for travelers in south-central Pennsylvania

In the late 1840s

A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (John Muir - CL) trial by Graham Smithby John Muir, William Frederic Bade At the age of 29, naturalist John Muir set out alone for a long hike through the rural American South in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. This volume chronicles his path from Indiana across Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf of Mexico. Muir chose the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find," sketching plants along the way and recording his delighted