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    MUIR THE DISASTER ARTIST

    Dec 21, 2021 2 minutes

    Of all the roles John Muir (at right) played—farmer, inventor, mountaineer, family man, conservationist, author, scientist—the most spectacular was that of disaster artist. Few men ever survived so many catastrophes and lived to tell the tale.

    Born in Dunbar, Scotland, on April 21, 1838, Muir immigrated to Wisconsin with his family in 1849. At

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