John Muir came through here in 1879, tagging along with a group of missionaries. He wanted to climb the big mountain above Glenora, and was unable to dissuade one of the missionaries from coming along. Sure enough, the fool fell off the mountain and disjointed both his arms. John had to truss him up and guide him down. Years later he published an account of it "after a miseable, sensational caricature of the story had appeared in a respectable magazine" because he "thought it but fair.. that it should be told just as it happened."