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John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1994, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1994, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter spring 1994 university of the pacific volume 4, number 2 JOHN MUIR AND THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT by Ron Limbaugh Was John Muir sympathetic toward 19th century feminism? Did he consider the rights of women worthy of at least the same respect as the rights of animals? Until recently it was not possible to explore these questions because of the lack of primary resources. Before 1970 the subject of Muir and his relationship with women was delicately side-stepped by scholars who were unable to win the confidence of Muir's heirs. Since then a new generation of heirs has …
John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1993/1994, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1993/1994, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter winter 1993-94 university of the pacific volume 4, number 1 JOHN MUIR IN RUSSIA PART TWO by William H. Brennan (The second of a three-part series) During the reign of the Empress Catherine the Great, who lived over a century before Muir's journey to Old Russia, a curious incident occurred. The Empress, noted for being near-sighted, had prepared a boat excursion for a group of European royalty. She had wanted to show them the countryside with its prosperity and happy peasants. Her one-time lover and now chief advisor, Gregory Potemkin, knew that the visitors were bound to …
John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1993, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1993, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter fall 1993 university of the pacific volume 3, number 4 JOHN MUIR IN RUSSIA PART ONE by William H. Brennan (Editor's note: Bill Brennan, a Russian and Soviet specialist, recently completed a study of Lenin that is scheduled for future publication. He has taught history at the University of the Pacific since 1976. This is the first of a two-part series, prepared especially for this publication.) Old Russia was still very much alive eleven years before the outbreak of World War One and considered itself to be a great power with a destiny to protect and preserve …
John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1993, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1993, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter summer 1993 university of the pacific volume 3, number 3 JOHN MUIR IN THE ION BASIN by Laurel Bemis (Editor's note: a Stockton resident and recent graduate of the University of the Pacific, the author prepared this paper in a course offered by UOP's history department, "John Muir and the American Environment. " Excerpts from the John Muir Papers at UOP are used by permission of the Muir-Hanna Trust.) John Muir left New York on April 20, 1911 on a voyage that would fulfill his lifetime dream to travel to South America. One of his main reasons …
John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1993, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1993, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter spring 1993 university of the pacific volume 3, number 2 1993 EARTH DAY CELEBRATES TH MUIR IMAGE by Janene Ford On a clear, sunny spring day the Earth Day Conservation Fair in Sacramento attracted thousands of people including large groups of school children. Sponsored by the California Department of Conservation, many organizations were invited to participate by setting up booths in front of the Capitol showing various aspects of recycling, alternative energy, conservation, and other reflections on "The Muir Image." The University of the Pacific, the John Muir National Historical Site, the Sierra Club and a number …
John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1993, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1993, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter winter 1993 university of the pacific volume 3, number 1 THE 1992 JOHN MUIR WRITING CONTEST A "GLORIOUS" »3 \J v^ \s JtL/»J»3 Last year we launched our own writer's contest for Muir aficionados, hoping not only to promote Muir's environmental message but also to have some fun trying to emulate his evocative writing style. The results exceeded our expectations. Out of nearly two dozen entries, our panel of judges from the English Department at UOP awarded four prizes, one from the "Young Sequoia" (young adult) category and three from the "Old Yosemite" (adult) division. The winners …
John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter university of the pacific fall, 1992 NATURE AND THE HUMAN SPIM volume 2, number 4 '» TOTIfi TRANSFORMATION OF HENRY LOOMIS by Ron Limbaugh A few years ago, while working on a research project at Yale's Sterling Memorial Library, I ran across a 90-page handwritten journal written by Henry Bradford Loomis, son of a prominent Yale mathematician and astronomer, an irresolute companion of John Muir during a three-month trip to Alaska in 1890. In labored but legible longhand, Loomis chronicled the expedition.' It is a fascinating record. Not only does it provide a starkly contrasting view to …
John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter ^H^^^^H summer, 1992 university of the pacific volume 2, number 3 THE PASSING OF RICHARD HANNA The third child of Thomas R. Hanna and his wife Wanda (John Muir's eldest daughter), Richard died May 9 of this year in Hamilton, Montana. He and his younger sister, the late Jean Hanna Clark, were instrumental in turning over the John Muir Papers to the custody of the University of the Pacific in 1970. He was also the principal custodian of John Muir's personal library, and during the 1970s donated over a thousand volumes from that monumental collection to the …
John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsle spring, 1992 university of the pacific volume 2, number 2 ON EARLY YOSEMITE ARTISTS AND TOURISM Katherine M. Littell of Harvard University has published a short essay about early Yosemite artists entitled, "Chris Jorgensen and the Pioneer Artists of Yosemite." It appeared in the fall, 1990 issue of the Harvard Graduate Society Newsletter. Littell reports that nineteenth century artists were very much responsible for the political viability of Yosemite. The new Yosemite Grant needed tourism to be finacially stable. California had accepted administration of Yosemite in 1866 but was not given any funds by the federal government …
John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1992, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter winter, 1992 university of the pacific volume 2, number 1 "ON JOHN MUIR: LETTERS FROM ALASKA" by Robert Engberg Bruce Merrell and I have reviewed the articles which John Muir wrote for the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin during the years 1879 and 1880. They suggest that it was during his visits to still-wild Alaska that Muir first learned that he could shape public opinion. Only three years before his Alaska travels he had attempted to influence the California legislature to stop clear-cut logging in the higher Sierra Nevada ranges. The politicians ignored him, and Muir's political …
John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1991, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Fall 1991, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter fall, 1991 university of the pacific new series, volume 1 number 4 TO OUR READERS Our readers and subscribers haye responded enthusiastically to the first year of issues in the new series of the John Muir Newsletter. .We here at the Muir Center are grateful for your accolades and encouragement, and we hope that more of you will become active supporters of the Center. We want to encourage you to demonstrate your support in two concrete ways, First, while we thank all our subscribers, we urge those of you who read the Newsletter but who have not …
John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1991, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Summer 1991, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
J oh n M u i r N e ws I etter summer, 1991 university of the pacific hew series, volume 1 number 3 CALL FOR PAPERS California Immigrants: People, Plants and Animals CALIFORNIA HISTORY INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA APRIL 23-25, 1992 "California Immigrants: People, Plants and Animals" is the theme of the 1992 California History Institute, sponsored by the John Muir Center for Regional Studies at the University of the Pacific. The 500th anniversary of European expansion in the western hemisphere presents an opportunity for deeper reflection and analysis of the interaction between humans and the …
John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1991, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1991, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
spring, 1991 JOHN MUIR MONOGRAPH TO APPEAR The John Muir Center for Regional Studies has completed its work on the papers presented in April, 1990, to the California History Institute on John Muir's life and work. The edited papers are now in the hands of a major publisher. The eventual volume will contain an introduction, fifteen separate essays, and an appendix. The book will be divided into six sections, each of which will focus on a different aspect of Muir's life and work. The sections include one on Muir the individual, another on Muir and religion, and a third on …
John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1990/1991, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
John Muir Newsletter, Winter 1990/1991, John Muir Center For Regional Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
John Muir Newsletter winter, 1990-1991 JOHN MUIR NEWSLETTER REVIVED The John Muir Center for Regional Studies at the University of thePacific is very pleased to begin republication of the John Muir Newsletter. The first newsletter under this title ran six years and ended with the publication of the John Muir Papers (microform edition) in 1986. The current quarterly Newsletter will be published in fall and spring of each year, starting with this fall 1990 issue. The Newsletter will serve as a clearing house of information on John Muir, publications and events concerning Muir and his legacy, news of the environment, …
John Muir Newsletter, July/September 1985, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, July/September 1985, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center \\/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies \. Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 5 JULY/SEPTEMBER 1985 NUMBER 3 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS A NEW FORMAT NEXT ISSUE We have published this little newsletter the last five years as a means of keeping interested subscribers informed on the status of the John Muir Papers Microform Project. As you will see by the following item, the project is near completion, and by definition the raison d'etre for this modest rag will end. However, until the end of this year we will keep current Muir …
John Muir Newsletter, April/June 1985, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, April/June 1985, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies VOLUME 5 APRIL/JUNE 1985 University of the Pacific Stockton, Calif 95211 NUMBER 2 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS MUIR CONFERENCE AN OUTSTANDING EVENT Over 250 registrants from all parts of the West attended the special John Muir Conference on the University of the Pacific campus April 12-13. Twenty-five speakers and panelists from thirteen differene academic institutions in nine different states and the Ditrict of Columbia participated in this edition of the California History Institute, highlighted by Hollywood actor Lee Stetson's highly-acclaimed one-man show: "Conversation with a Tramp: An Evening with John …
John Muir Newsletter, January/March 1985, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, January/March 1985, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies VOLUME 5 University of the Pacific Stockton, Calif 95211 JANUARY/MARCH 1985 NUMBER 1 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS WINDING DOWN THE PROJECT Shortly you will receive a flyer from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc. announcing the availability of the John Muir Papers on microfilm. We had hoped to have the microfilm edition ready by the time of the special John Muir Conference at the University of the Pacific on April 12 and 13. Instead, the flyer will have to serve until the final snags are worked out in filming and indexing. To date, all …
John Muir Newsletter, November/December 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, November/December 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center \\/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies \ Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 4 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1984 NUMBER 5 & 6 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH. KIRSTEN E. LEWIS MICROFORM PROJECT PROGRESS (?) REPORT In our last newsletter we spoke confidently of wrapping up the project in time for the Muir Conference in April. Now we're not quite so sure. We'll be close, but technical problems and some staff changes have forced us to revise our timetable. At this writing we are projecting a July 1 publication date. One big recent change was the reorganization of our …
John Muir Newsletter, August/October 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, August/October 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center \\/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies X^ / Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 4 AUGUST/OCTOBER 1984 NUMBER 4 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS PROJECT UPDATE Muir scholars take note: the microform project is rounding third and heading for home. Since the last newsletter we have completed the filming of Series II (journals) and Series IV (illustrative works), and have begun filming Series III (manuscripts). The last series to be filmed, Series I (correspondence), is fully controlled but not yet camera-ready. By November we expect to have all the filming completed and processed. …
John Muir Newsletter, May/July 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, May/July 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center \\/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies \ / Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 4 MAY/JULY 1984 NUMBER 3 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. UMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS PROJECT UPDATE Remember us? Sorry we have kept you waiting for news, but we have a good excuse: we're swamped! Since May 1 we have: - completed processing all remaining Muir papers scheduled for filming. This means the University of the Pacific collection is completely reorganized and controlled, and the incoming copies in other repositories incorporated into the filming sequence. The preliminary inventory has been replaced by a card …
John Muir Newsletter, March/April 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, March/April 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center \\/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies \ Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 4 MARCH/APRIL 1984 NUMBER 2 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS SEARCHING FOR LITERARY HEIRS: WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE? Previous issues of this Newsletter have described the search procedure used by Project staff to locate scattered Muir documents. Another search of equal importance is now being conducted to identify and contact individuals or entities who may claim ownership or control of literary rights to documents or photographs scheduled for publication. The 1978 copyright law clarified and strengthened the doctrine of …
John Muir Newsletter, January/February 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, January/February 1984, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center \\/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies \ / Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 4 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1984 NUMBER 1 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS SPECIAL NOTICE: A NEW PUBLICATION POLICY FOR THE JOHN MUIR PAPERS (Editor's Note: For the past several years, requests to publish material from the hand of John Muir or contained in the Muir collection at the University of the Pacific have been held up by the owners of the literary rights pending clarification of the copyright status. These legal questions have now been resolved and the Muir-Hanna Trust has …
John Muir Newsletter, September/December 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, September/December 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center \\/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies X^ / Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 3 SEPTEMBER/DECEMBER 1983 NUMBER 5 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. UMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS CATCHING UP We apologize for the delay in distributing this final newsletter of 1983. Our intentions were to keep the publication bimonthly if possible, but the fall workload and the delay in NEH funding news kept us from turning out a September- October edition. We are grateful for your patience and understanding. FUNDING UPDATE As anticipated in our last newsletter, the National Endowment for the Humanities has contributed $20,000 …
John Muir Newsletter, July/August 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, July/August 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center \\/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies \ ,/ Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 3 JULY/AUGUST 1983 NUMBER 4 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS FUNDING UPDATE As we go to press we have not yet received formal word, but our "unimpeachable sources" tell us we are about to receive a major grant that will provide most of the Project funding for 1984. The next newsletter will hopefully fill in the details, but we could not wait to share the good news. DATING MUIR MANUSCRIPTS In previous editions we have descibed the complexities of …
John Muir Newsletter, May/June 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, May/June 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center V-/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies X Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 3 MAY/JUNE 1983 NUMBER 3 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS FINANCIAL UPDATE Pardon our delay, but this is one case where no news is good news! Congress has approved favorable budget legislation for both NHPRC and NARS, and also has given the green light to a bill separating NARS from the General Services Administration. It remains to be seen what the ultimate outcome of the current budget battle with the White House will be, but unlike earlier Congresses, this Congress …
John Muir Newsletter, March/April 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, March/April 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies University of the Pacific Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 3 MARCH/APRIL 1983 NUMBER 2 PROJECT UPDATE EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS Project staff had cause to celebrate last week. After nearly a year of intensive work they completed the control system for the 457 unpublished manuscripts and precursor drafts of publications that comprise Series III of the Muir collection at the University of the Pacific. Each of the 11,133 pages in this extensive and complex series has been identified, numbered, conserved if special care was needed, and arranged by chronological sequence where …
John Muir Newsletter, January/February 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, January/February 1983, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center V\/ / University of the Pacific for Western Studies \ Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 3 JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1983 NUMBER 1 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS HOP SIGNS PUBLICATION AGREEMENT WITH MUIR-HANNA FAMILIES The unpublished works of John Muir, including but not limited to correspondence, manuscripts and sketches, remain the literary property of the Muir- Hanna families and are currently protected by common-law copyright. Anyone seeking to publish any portion of the Muir papers must obtain permission from an authorized representative of the Muir-Hanna families. Last September the literary heirs appointed Richard R. Hanna and Ross …
John Muir Newsletter, November/December 1982, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, November/December 1982, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies University of the Pacific Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 2 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1982 NUMBER 4 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS FUNDING UPDATE Christmas came in November for the John Muir Papers Microform Project. On November 16 we received word from Oakland, California, that the Muir Project had been awarded a $10,000 grant from the L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, a private agency which supports many environmental and educational activities. At the end of the month we received a call from N.H.P.R.C. headquarters in Washington, informing us that the Publications and Records …
John Muir Newsletter, September/October 1982, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, September/October 1982, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies University of the Pacific Stockton, Calif 95211 VOLUME 2 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1982 NUMBER 3 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS FUNDING UPDATE Yes, we are alive and cautiously months! The long hiatus since our la temporary staff layoffs and in part from Washington relative to our fund arrived, and most welcome news indee victory recently when Congress overr 1982 supplemental appropriations bil authorized $1.5 million for NHPRC in they had received earlier this fisca that the 1983 NHPRC budget will also it stood prior to the fiscal wars of nationwide support for both …
John Muir Newsletter, April/May 1982, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
John Muir Newsletter, April/May 1982, Holt-Atherton Pacific Center For Western Studies
Muir Center Newsletters, 1981-2015
Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies VOLUME 2 University of the Pacific Stockton, Calif 95211 APRIL/MAY 1982 NUMBER 2 EDITORIAL STAFF: RONALD H. LIMBAUGH, KIRSTEN E. LEWIS PROJECT UPDATE The project staff has made a major push to complete the preparation of control cards for the Muir correspondence, 1858-1914. The now completed series contains approximately 6,000 items, each having an individual, seven-segment control card. The original copy will be used as the target card when microfilming. The six carbon copies have been filed by author, recipient, place, date, repository, and accession number to assist Muir researchers and provide additional finding …