Alligator vs. Man

As I read through this portion from A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf I couldn't help but notice the difference in writing style from todays writing to his style. John Muir died in 1914 so I'm guessing he wrote this in the eighteen hundreds. I enjoyed hearing about the alligators rolling around in the mud like hogs and sunning themselves. His writing made it very easy to picture that as well as the fights he mentions later on. John talks about a man who claimed to have wrestled an alligator and even though it was only four feet long it still almost ate him. He had to wrestle it because it had gotten a hold of one of his dogs. The man ended up getting away but the dog was not so lucky. I enjoyed the writing style of this piece because of how easily I can get a picture in my head as I read.