Others Retracing John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk
This World Wide Web page written by
Dan Styer;
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/Muir/OtherThousandMile.html;
11 November 2019.
In addition to Dan Styer, the following people have done work in retracing John Muir's 1867 "Thousand-Mile Walk" from Louisville, Kentucky to Cedar Key, Florida.
- John Earl, a photographer, produced an edited and beautifully illustrated edition with the improbably long title
John Muir's Longest Walk: John Earl, a photographer,
traces his journey to Florida; with excerpts from
John Muir's "Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf"
(Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York, 1975).
- Dr.
D. Bruce Means
retraced the walk on the same dates as Muir, but in 1984
rather than in 1867. He wrote about it on pages 212-214 of his book
Stalking the Plumed Serpent and Other Adventures in Herpetology
(Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 2008).
- Robert Perkins approximated Muir's route on a motorcycle in 1996,
making a
documentary
movie.
- Dr. Richard Shore
of Louisville retraced the Kentucky portion
of the "Thousand-Mile Walk" route.
This resulted in a 1999 Kentucky Educational Television production
called Kentucky Life #516, hosted by Byron Crawford.
- Michael
Muir, John's great-grandson, retraced the "Thousand-Mile Walk" route
in a horse-drawn buggy in 2003, to demonstrate that wilderness journeys
are accessible to those with disabilities.
- "Ramblin" Ron Boone retraced the "Thousand-Mile Walk" route
in a car camper in about 2006, producing the eclectic self-published account
John Muir's "Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf" Revisited.
- Wil
and Sarah Reding retraced the "Thousand-Mile Walk" route on
5 May to 25 June 2006, on the basis of "Muir's journals,
Civil War maps, and lots of other research".
- Merald Clark of the Morningside Nature Center near Gainesville, Florida, recreated
the day that Muir walked into Gainesville on 18 October 1867 on 18 October 2010, and followed (by car) Muir's 17 October 1867 walk on 17 October 2011.
- James B. Hunt, Restless Fires: Young John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf in 1867-68
(Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 2012).
- In 2017, to celebrate the sesquicentennial of Muir's long walk south, Chuck Roe followed Muir's route in a Subaru Forester.