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 | | Wanderer, poet, inventor, explorer, accomplished author and political activist, Muir is best known for his pioneering work in the field of conservation, work that culminated in the establishment of the world’s first national park system. |
 | | Born in Dunbar, Scotland in 1838, Muir immigrated to the United States at the age of eleven and spent his adolescent years hard at work on his family’s Wisconsin farm. |
 | | His legacy lives on in geographic names from Alaska to Florida, in Yosemite National Park, which he was instrumental in establishing in 1890, and in the Sierra Club, which he founded in 1892 and served as its first president. |
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