Covering the Sierra Nevada mountain range, Kimes & Kimes states, "The book contains much of Muir's finest writing between 1875 and 1882, and is considered by many Muir admirers to be his finest book." This is not one of the "first copies," as it does not have the folio I beneath the text on p.1. BAL 14746; Kimes 189; Currey & Kruska 258; Howes M880