The typescript consists of carbon copies with Muir's handwritten annotations and corrections in pencil, and is incomplete, undated and unsigned. Some of the leaves are torn or stained, but most are in fair or good condition. Comparison with the printed version shows that the typescript lacks only the final page of the book. First published in 1913, Muir's account begins with his early life in Scotland and ends with his visit to the University of Wisconsin eighteen years after his time as a student. Two detached issues of the Sierra Club bulletin containing posthumous tributes to Muir and reviews of some of his books, and the program of a 1916 memorial held at the University of Wisconsin, are in a separate folder filed with the typescript.