Prologue: The photo, May, 17, 1903
Part I Coming to California. Discovering the range of light
The brag about the West
A ramble in Hetch Hetchy
Johnson becomes an editor
Ice and fire
Mr. Muir and Mr. Johnson
Rebirth on Mount Rainier
Part II Making the mountains glad. Shaken and stirred
Treasures of the Yosemite
Proposed : Yosemite National Park
A red-letter day
The Sierra Club
The preaching of pine trees
Only Uncle Sam can do that
Part III The water stealers. San Francisco's thirst
Camping with the President
Alaska unites Yosemite
The great 1906 earthquake changed everything
Irrefragable ignorance
Fighting thieves & robbers
Part IV A California water war. The big stick
We have only begun to fight
A shocking report
The nature lovers
Birth of a movement
Every park will be attacked
Immortal friends
Epilogue.