title: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
author:  John Muir 
description: The Story of My boyhood and Youth is a series of essays on the three worlds of the young John Muir: his first eleven years in an old town in Scotland, the years 1849-1860 in the central Wisconsin wilderness, during the time the area was being settled, and four years at the University of Wisconsin.
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  # The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### John Muir
  
  
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  * [I. A BOYHOOD IN SCOTLAND](stom_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [II. A NEW WORLD](stom_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [III. LIFE ON A WISCONSIN FARM](stom_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [IV. A PARADISE OF BIRDS](stom_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [V. YOUNG HUNTERS](stom_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [VI. THE PLOUGHBOY](stom_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [VII. KNOWLEDGE AND INVENTIONS](stom_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  * [VIII. THE WORLD AND THE UNIVERSITY](stom_split_9.html#1_0_9)
  
  
  
  
  
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