Acknowledgments ix // TO JOHN MUIR FROM LAKE TENAYA X // 1. Keeping Faith with the Source 3 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM THE RIM OF NEVADA FALLS 17 // 2. Muir as Practitioner of the Post-Pastoral 19 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM MONO LAKE 37 // 3. Muir’s Multiple Discourses 39 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM LAKE TAHOE 55 // 4. Teaching Environmentalism through Writing 57 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM THE TRAIL TO MIRROR LAKE 73 // 5. Muir’s Mode of Reading John Ruskin 75 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM CAMP FOUR 87 // 6. Rick Bass’s Fiber as a Post-Pastoral Georgic 89 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM TUOLUMNE MEADOWS IO3 // 7. Walking into Narrative Scholarship 105 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM FAIRVIEW DOME II9 // 8. Teaching Post-Pastoral Poetry of Landscape 121 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM MOUNT HOFFMAN I3I // 9. Tests of Character in Cold Mountain 133 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM CATHEDRAL PEAK I4I // 10. Muir’s Fourfold Concept of the Mountaineer 143 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM GLACIER POINT APRON I53 // 11. Toward a Post-Pastoral Mountaineering Literature 155 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM THE ROYAL ARCHES 169 // 12. Post-Pastoral Practice at the Crossroads of Ecocriticism 171 // TO JOHN MUIR FROM HALF DOME I77 // Appendix A. Introducing Ecocriticism into the University Curriculum 179 Appendix B. Twenty-five Kinds of Post-Pastoral Landscape Poem 181 Appendix C. Advice for New Writers Targeting Outdoor Magazines 183 Bibliography 187 Index 195