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16. Muir, Travels in Alaska, pp. 314–315.

17. John Muir, “Notes of a Naturalist: John Muir in Alaska—Wrangell Island and Its Picturesque Attractions,” San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (September 6, 1879), p. 1.

18. Melham, John Muir’s Wild America, p. 136.

19. S. Hall Young, Alaska Days with John Muir (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1915), pp. 29–30.

20. Muir, Travels in Alaska, p. 21.

21. Kollin, Nature’s State, p. 29.

22. Peter A. Coates, The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Controversy: Technology, Conservation, and the Frontier (Anchorage: University of Alaska Press, 1993), p. 40.

23. D. K. Hall, C. S. Benson, and W. O. Field, “Changes of Glaciers in Glacier Bay, Alaska,” in Physical Geography (Elsevier/Geo Abstracts, 1992), pp. 27–41.

24. Muir, Travels in Alaska, p. 13.

25. Michael F. Turek, “John Muir, Glacier Bay, and the Tlingit Indians: Rapid Landscape Change and Human Response in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic,” June 15–18, 2005. (ICSU Dark Nature Project, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.)

26. Melham, John Muir’s Wild America, p. 19.

27. Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, p. 99.

28. Wolfe, John of the Mountains, pp. 272–273. Also Muir, Travels in Alaska, pp. 142–146.

29. Kim Heacox, Alaska’s Inside Passage (Portland, OR: Graphic Arts Center Public Library, 1997), p. 79.

30. Katherine Hocker, Alaska’s Glaciers: Frozen in Motion (Anchorage: Alaska Natural History Association, 2006), p. 8.

31. Donald Worster, A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), p. 251.

32. Muir, Travels in Alaska, p. 156. Also John Muir, “Fort Wrangell, October 16, 1879,” San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, November 8, 1879, p. 1.

33. Muir, Travels in Alaska, p. 145.

34. Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, pp. 108–112.

35. Molnia, Glaciers of Alaska, p. 8.

36. Ibid., pp. 97–111.

37. Ibid., p. 126.

38. Worster, A Passion for Nature, pp. 256–257.

39. Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, p. 71.

40. John Muir, “An Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier,” Century, Vol. 54 (August 1897), p. 771.

41. John Muir, Stickeen (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1910).

42. Worster, A Passion for Nature, pp. 260–261.

43. Muir, Travels in Alaska, p. 263.

44. Marcus Baker, Geographic Dictionary of Alaska (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1906).

45. Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, p. 32.

46. Rod Miller, John Muir: Magnificent Tramp (New York: Forge, 2005), p. 112.

47. Author interview with the archivist Michael Wurtz, July 1, 2010.

48. John Muir, Alaska Glacier Drawings, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA. (Unpublished inventory.)

49. Muir, Travels in Alaska, p. v.

50. Ibid.

51. Young, Alaska Days with John Muir, pp. 202–206.

52. John Muir, The Writings of John Muir: The Cruise of the Corwin (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917), p. xxvi.

53. Worster, A Passion for Nature, p. 204.

54. Muir, The Writings of John Muir: The Cruise of the Corwin, p. 24.

55. Ibid., p. 91.

56. Dan Flores, Visions of the Big Sky: Painting and Photographing the Northern Rocky Mountain West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010), p. 113.

57. John Burroughs, “Narrative of the Expedition,” in Harriman Alaska Expedition, 13 vols. (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1902), Vol. 1, pp. 18–80.

58. Glaciers in Alaska (Anchorage: Alaska Geographic Society, 2003), p. 72.

59. Laurie Lawlor, Shadow Catcher: The Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005), p. 37.

60. William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan, Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982), p. 113.

61. Ibid., pp. 200–206.

62. Nancy Lord, Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast (Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 1999), p. xix.

63. Quoted in Molnia, Glaciers of Alaska, p. 76.

64. Quoted in “Celebrating Wild Alaska: Twenty Years of the Alaska Lands Act” (Washington,