He also wrote a copiously illustrated guide, Arizona Sketches, to some of the more important landmarks in the state.

He fought in Civil War, and after he returned home in 1865 he attended Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio and then at Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, where he graduated in 1869.

He first practiced in Lindsey, Ohio, then in Chillicothe, Missouri (1871), Topeka, Kansas (1881), and finally settled in Los Angeles, California (1892).

This marked the beginning of his career as a bibliophile and what was to become a large and important collection of books about Arizona.

[4] The collection was later acquired by the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles Munk's brother was Edward R. Monk, who, in addition to being Munk's partner in Arizona business, was a judge in Cochise County, Arizona from 1886–1890, and a regent of the university in 1895.