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John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United States’ vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and public advocacy helped create. That vision, however, came at a cost: the conquest and dispossession of the tribal peoples who had inhabited and managed those same lands, in many cases for millennia. Cast Out of Eden tells this neglected part of Muir’s story thanks to: University Of Nebraska Press https://bit.ly/MUIRonMUSE