John Muir
Stickeen
"Stickeen" by John Muir is a short memoir published in 1897. It recounts an adventure Muir took in Alaska in 1880 with a small dog named Stickeen during a treacherous outing on a glacier. Now considered a classic dog story, it remains one of Muir's best-known writings. Muir himself called it the hardest thing he ever tried to write, yet believed the tale carried "a more definite and useful message" than perhaps any other from his wilderness travels.