The Wild Muir Analysis

The Wild Muir, written by Lee Stetson in 1994, is a collection of twenty-two of John Muir’s (Dunbar, 1838 – Los Angeles, 1914) most exciting and breath-taking adventures. From its famous, close encounter with a Sierra Bear, described as the “sequoia of the animals”, to his dangerous fights with venomous rattlesnakes in the Cañons. The climbing of the monstrous ice cone beneath the Yosemite Falls, or when he almost lost of his life in a well due to the inhalation of a carbonic acid gas settled at the bottom of it during the night. These are only few of the stories which see this fearless and wild “scotch” as the main character of his interesting life.
Stetson has neatly ordered every single story in a chronological way, with a brief introduction at the start, in order to organise better the main character’s incredible life. Lee Stetson is an actor who has been representing John Muir in one-person productions from many years, precisely since 1983. He has written many plays and most of them see John Muir’s as the main character. Furthermore, every summer, Lee organises presentations in the Yosemite National Park where he acts some of his unbelievable adventures.
One interesting fact that I have learnt by reading this
In the Valley, the only place where the first one can be seen is on the north slope of Clouds’ rest. “They are composed of heavy, compacted snow, which has been subjected to frequent alternations of freezing and thawing” and “are developed at an elevation from nine to ten thousand feet”. While the great century avalanches “occur on mountain-sides about ten or twelve feet high” (p. 63). On their way down, they create a lot of damage and often take along trees with them. However, what’s more interesting is that some trees have time, before an avalanche occurs, to grow fifty to a hundred feet high under the snow accumulated for many