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In 1892 the Sierra Club was formed. In 1908 an area of coastal redwood trees north of SanFrancisco was established as Muir Woods National Monument. In the Sierra Nevadamountains, a walking trail from Yosemite Valley to Mount Whitney was dedicated in1938. It is called John Muir Trail.John Muir was born in 1838 in Scotland. His family name means ''moor,'' which is ameadow full of flowers and animals. John loved nature from the time he was small. Healso liked to climb rocky cliffs and walls.When John was eleven, his family moved to the United States and settled in Wisconsin.John was good with tools and soon became an inventor. He first invented a model of asawmill. Later he invented an alarm clock that would cause the sleeping person to betipped out of bed when the timer sounded.Muir left home at an early age. He took a thousand-mile walk south to the Gulf of Mexicoin 1867and 1868. Then he sailed for San Francisco. The city was too noisy and crowdedfor Muir, so he headed inland for the Sierra Nevadas.When Muir discovered the Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevadas, it was as if he hadcome home. He loved the mountains, the wildlife, and the trees. He climbed the mountainsand even climbed trees during thunderstorms in order to get closer to the wind. He putforth the theory in the late 1860's that the Yosemite Valley had been formed through theaction of glaciers. People ridiculed him. Not until 1930 was Muir's theory proven correct.Muir began to write articles about the Yosemite Valley to tell readers about its beauty. Hiswriting also warned people that Yosemite was in danger from timber mining and sheepranching interests. In 1901 Theodore Roosevelt became president of the United States. Hewas interested in conservation. Muir took the president through Yosemite, and Roosevelthelped get legislation passed to create Yosemite National Park in 1906. Although Muirwon many conservation battles, he lost a major one. He fought to save the Hetch Valley,which people wanted to dam in order to provide water for San Francisco. In the late 1913a bill was signed to dam the valley. Muir died in 1914. Some people say losing the fight toprotect the valley killed Muir.
When did Muir invent a unique form of alarm clock?
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''Old woman,'' grumbled the burly white man who had just heard Sojourner Truth speak,''do you think your talk about slavery does any good? I don't care any more for your talkthan I do for the bite of a flea.''The tall, imposing black woman turned her piercing eyes on him. ''Perhaps not,'' sheanswered, ''but I'll keep you scratching.''The little incident of the 1840s sums up all that Sojourner Truth was: utterly dedicated tospreading her message, afraid of no one, forceful and witty in speech.Yet forty yearsearlier, who could have suspected that a spindly slave girl growing up in a damp cellar inupstate New York would become one of the most remarkable women in Americanhistory? Her name then was Isabella (many slaves had no last names), and by the time shewas fourteen she had seen both parents die of cold and hunger. She herself had been soldseveral times. By 1827, when New York freed its slaves, she had married and borne fivechildren.The first hint of Isabella's fighting spirit came soon afterwards, when her youngest sonwas illegally seized and sold. She marched to the courthouse and badgered officials untilher son was returned to her.In 1843, inspired by religion, she changed her name to Sojourner(meaning ''one who staysbriefly'') Truth, and, with only pennies in her purse, set out to preach against slavery. FromNew England to Minnesota she trekked, gaining a reputation for her plain but powerfuland moving words. Incredibly, despite being black and female (only white males wereexpected to be public speakers), she drew thousands to town halls, tents, and churches tohear her powerful, deep-voiced pleas on equality for blacks-and for women. Often she hadto face threatening hoodlums. Once she stood before armed bullies and sang a hymn tothem. Awed by her courage and her commanding presence, they sheepishly retreated.During the Civil War she cared for homeless ex-slaves in Washington. President Lincolninvited her to the White House to bestow praise on her. Later, she petitioned Congress tohelp former slaves get land in the West. Even in her old age, she forced the city ofWashington to integrate its trolley cars so that black and white could ride together.Shortly before her death at eighty-six, she was asked what kept her going. ''I think of thegreat things,'' replied Sojourner.
The imposing black woman promised to keep the white man-
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