Cast out of Eden

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May 2025

Hiding in Plain Sight
A Beat poet was the first to call out Muir’s racial disdain almost 50 years ago. Nobody noticed.
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John Muir’s Home Land
A few special places are sacred. Everywhere else, not so much.
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Book Birthday: Shining a Light on a Secular Saint’s Shadow Side
This month CAST OUT OF EDEN, the book, turns one, a good time to look back to the project’s conception.
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Chinese Field Hands Crucial to John Muir’s Fortune
Without their cheap labor in the fields, he never would have amassed his wealth.
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April 2025

California’s Native Slaves
Admitted to the pre–Civil War United States as a nominally free state, California devised a workaround to keep the locals in bondage anyway.
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A Quick Look at the Neighbors
Watch this mom and her two kids mosey along the old logging road.
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John Muir’s Money
The wilderness advocate amassed an estate worth $6.5 million in today’s currency by profiting from an agricultural revolution built on California’s…
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What’s Sacred Got to Do with It?
Everything. We protect only what is sacred. The rest gets sold off.
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March 2025

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