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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1898 Oct 28., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1898 Oct 28., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oct. 28, 1898.

My dear Wanda,

I've been trying to tell you the course of my wanderings, since I left home, partly that I might thus help to keep track of myself, I've been going so fast and have made so many turns and doubles far and near in so many states north and south -- enjoyed so much and been bothered and fussed so much -- mixed day and night so much in cars, hotels, friends’ homes, steamboats, shanties, etc. it is no easy matter to keep anything like a clear record. I think I wrote last from Burlington, …

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Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1898 Oct 8., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1898 Oct 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

untsville, Ala., Oct. 8th, 1898.

Dear Wanda and Helen:

Yesterday noon we got here from Chattanooga, passing through beautiful hilly and mountainous scenery all the way -- more than a hundred miles -- all covered with a close growth of trees, except the little valleys and clearings of the settlers covered with weeds and corn and cotton. The trees are junipers, maples, many oaks, some of them with long narrow leaves that make them look like willows, two kinds of magnolia, linden, ash, liriodendron, elm, beech, sorrel, nyssa, liquidambar, yellow wood, celtis, five or six kinds of hickory, chestnut, etc. …

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Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 30., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 30., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Knoxville, Term.,
Sep. 30.1898.

Dear Louie.

We arrived here by train an hour ago. 10 P.M.. and have just had supper. We came direct from Ashville and Biltmore, where we spent three days and had a grand time driving and walking over the Biltmore estate, royally entertained by the superintendents. The views, hilly and mountainous, are superb, but the forests are far inferior to those we passed through for 75 miles between Roan Mountain and Lenoir, and as for Vanderbilt's magnificent chateau and drives, I soon tired of them.
We are now in Grandma's country, Tennessee, and here for the …

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Yellowstone National Park., John Muir Apr 1898

Yellowstone National Park., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

The Yellowstone National Park. 509 THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. Of the four national parks of the West, the Yellowstone is far the largest. It is a big, wholesome wilderness on the broad summit of the Rocky Mountains, favored with abundance of rain and now, — a place of fountains where the greatest of the American rivers take tbcir rise. The central portion is a densely forested and comparatively level volcanic plateau with an average elevation of about 8000 feet above the sea, surrounded by an imposing host of mountains belonging to the subordinate Gallatin, Wind River, Te.ton, Absaroka, and Snowy …

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1898 Ruby Yearbook, George Leslie Omwake, Peter Martin Orr, Ursinus College Junior Class Jan 1898

1898 Ruby Yearbook, George Leslie Omwake, Peter Martin Orr, Ursinus College Junior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1898 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

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Wild Parks And Forest Reservations Of The West., John Muir Jan 1898

Wild Parks And Forest Reservations Of The West., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

THE WILD PARKS AND FOREST RESERVATIONS OF THE WEST. " Keep not standing fix'd and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam ; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart are still at home. In each land the sun does visit We are gay, whate'er betide: To give room for wandering is it That the world was made so wide." The tendency nowadays to Wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. Thou sands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain …

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Work-A-Day World, November 1897, University Of The Pacific Nov 1897

Work-A-Day World, November 1897, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Trails Of The Gold Hunters In Northern Seas And On Mountain Passes. Five Passes To The Yukon Gold Fields. John Muir's Letter On The Condition Of The Trails. The Best Route Next Spring Will Be By The Way Of Dyea. Skagway Pronounced The Worst, In Spite Of Attempted Road-Building. Bread For Prospectors. As Well Take Drugs To Heaven As Medicines To Alaska, Says The Experienced Traveler., John Muir Oct 1897

Trails Of The Gold Hunters In Northern Seas And On Mountain Passes. Five Passes To The Yukon Gold Fields. John Muir's Letter On The Condition Of The Trails. The Best Route Next Spring Will Be By The Way Of Dyea. Skagway Pronounced The Worst, In Spite Of Attempted Road-Building. Bread For Prospectors. As Well Take Drugs To Heaven As Medicines To Alaska, Says The Experienced Traveler., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

M ..ext men, gging. . .0 death di -ied on the one ashore?" . Neilson, almost .mteered. Over the with the line about tipped on the jagged xkers tossed him. Lost Jhe wreck could hear his ivened, and they thought: c became taut, and "a shout -.em that brave Neilson was .1 line a big four-inch hawser cried the Captain above the Neilson pulled, and soon all n the beach. The men rescued , little progress. Of the three other southern passes at the head of Lynn canal, the middle one, called the Dyea or Chilcoot, though rough and difficult, …

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An Adventure With A Dog And A Glacier., John Muir Sep 1897

An Adventure With A Dog And A Glacier., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

AN ADVENTURE WITH A DOG AND A GLACIER. BY THE AUTHOR OP THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA,)) ETC. N the summer of 1880 I set out from Fort Wran- gel in a canoe, with the Rev. S. H. Young, my former companion, and a crew of Indians, to continue the exploration of the icy region of southeastern Alaska, begun in the fall of 1879. After the necessary provisions, blankets, etc., had been collected and stowed away, and the Indians were in their places ready to dip their paddles, while a crowd of their friends were looking down from the wharf to …

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The American Forests, John Muir Aug 1897

The American Forests, John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY: jftaga?me of Literature., Science, &rt anD $oltttcft Vol. LXXX. — A UGUST, 1897. — No. CCCCLXXVIII. THE AMERICAN FORESTS. The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe. To prepare the ground, it was rolled and sifted in seas with infinite loving deliberation and forethought, lifted into the light, submerged and warmed over and over again, …

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The Alaska Trip., John Muir Aug 1897

The Alaska Trip., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

John Muir Author of The Mountains of California WITH PICTURES BY JOHN A. PHASER.1 TO the lover of wildness Alaska offers a glorious field for either work or rest: landscape beauty in a thousand forms, things great and small, novel and familiar, as wild and pure as paradise. Wander where you may, wildness ever fresh and ever beautiful meets you in endless variety: ice-laden mountains, hundreds of miles of them peaked and pinnacled and crowded together like trees in groves, and so high and so divinely clad in clouds and air that they seem to belong more to heaven than …

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The National Parks And Forest Reservations, John Muir Jun 1897

The National Parks And Forest Reservations, John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

THE NATIONAL PARKS AND FOREST RESERVATIONS. I1Y JOHN MUIR. One fine calm day Inst summer, when Professor Sargent. General Abbot, and myself were going through tbet California redwoods, admiring their -wondrous bonuly and grandeur and silence, we came Suddenly upon a scene of disorder. At the foot of n shallow dell, where a little stream crosses the wny, we discovered three Indians, white man, and a bona,all in wild motion—especially the horse. He was a good-looking animal, well bred apparently, but laboring under furious excitement—snnriing, groaning, springing tip on liis hind legs and beating the tiir. then dropping on life …

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The New Forest Reservation, John Muir Apr 1897

The New Forest Reservation, John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

Written for the Mining and Scientific Press by John Muir Uncle Sam Is trying tosave his forests - what Is left of them upd' at the naimi time trying to 11 nd out how best they can bo put to use and kept in use forever for the benefit of miners, fanners, lumber* men and the people in general. • But the problem, though simple looking enough in theory, Is u very difficult one on account of widely varying conditions and interests, and the general apathy and blindness of those whose interests are not immediately involved. In the meantime the …

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Workaday World, March 1897, University Of The Pacific Mar 1897

Workaday World, March 1897, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From Henry E. Howland To John Muir, 1897 Jan 2., Henry E. Howland Jan 1897

Letter From Henry E. Howland To John Muir, 1897 Jan 2., Henry E. Howland

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

LAW OFFICES OF ANDERSON, HOWLAND & MURRAY,
35 WALL STREET (MILLS BUILDING).

HENRY H. ANDERSON,
HENRY E. HOWLAND,
GEO. WELWOOD MURRAY,
HENRY B. ANDERSON.

New York, January 2nd, 1897.

John Muir, Esq.
My dear Mr. Muir:-

Permit me to recall myself to you as a companion with you on a very pleasant trip through a part of the Yosemite Valley in 1889, and several days thereafter as a participant with you in some social affairs in this City, notably, a dinner with Miss Barney.
I hear from Professor Sargent that he has been with you this summer, and his experience …

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1897 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Junior Class, Robert Mearns Yerkes, Cyrus E. L. Gresh Jan 1897

1897 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Junior Class, Robert Mearns Yerkes, Cyrus E. L. Gresh

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1897 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

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The Scenery Of California., John Muir Jan 1897

The Scenery Of California., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

THE SCENERY OF CALIFORNIA. By John Muir. AT first sight of the fashionable scenery habit, it would seem that the people of the East need not come West seeking fine scenery, for they have plenty of it at home. God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, as long as it is wild; and much in every landscape is unchangeably wild, especially light, which falls everywhere. In no place on all this continent, from Florida to the Arctic Ocean, have I seen finer, diviner, more enchanting landscapes than in the Great American Desert, with …

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Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1896 Jul 23., Gifford Pinchot Jul 1896

Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1896 Jul 23., Gifford Pinchot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

July 23, 1896

Dear Mr. Muir,

I have some bad news to send you. the Commission has decided that I should be of some service to the general cause by spending more time in the Bitter Root Mountains than was intended at first. Consequently it will be impossible for me to get to Tacoma as early as I had hoped. and the Alaska trip is now beyond my reach. You will know, without any words from me, how sorry I am that matters have turned out in this way. I had already written home that I was going …

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 May 30., Charles Sprague Sargent May 1896

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 May 30., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., May 30, 1896

My dear Mr. Muir:

I return to you with many thanks the communications you have been good enough to send me in reference to the Big Trees.
Engelmann, in The Botany of California, speaks of the fruit of Sequoia as maturing the second year. This I should think must be a mistake, as there is nothing to show on any of my specimens that it does not ripen the first autumn. If I am wrong about this,I wish you would send me a line by return post that I may …

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[Statement From John Muir.], John Muir Apr 1896

[Statement From John Muir.], John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

950 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE. level, their opponents work only spasmodically, usually a few weeks before election, and during the remainder of the year dismiss the subject from their minds. It requires great fervor of patriotism to carry on this work, but he must be a very poor American who is willing to admit that there is not enough of saving grace in our people to produce a sufficient body of men to accomplish it. The kind of patriotism required is of the highest order. It must be willing to give time and labor and money, to sacrifice the best that …

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Letter From Jno. T. Mclean To John Muir, 1896 Feb 2., Jno T. Mclean Feb 1896

Letter From Jno. T. Mclean To John Muir, 1896 Feb 2., Jno T. Mclean

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Yosemite

[letterhead]

on the overland train going east near Rawlins Wyoming 7 p.m.

Feby 2nd 1896

Mr. John Muir

Martinez California

My Dear Sir

As you see I am on my way east - bound for Washington expecting to remain East mostly in Washington, though visiting N. York & Boston & then northern cities while away from California I go as a delegate from the Renier & Harbor Improvement Association of Central California (there being five other delegates) to secure as liberal appropriations as possible from Congress for the improvement of the Sacramento & forgiven Rivers & their tributaries, and …

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Linnaeus., Charles Dudley Warner Jan 1896

Linnaeus., Charles Dudley Warner

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

9077 LINN/EUS (1707-1778)' BY JOHN MUIR SraEygHE immortal Linnaeus—Carl von Lmne — was born in Sweden, * a cold rocky country now famous forever. He was born in @4§?§i the bloom-time of the year, May 13th, 1707; and contemplating this great event, one may easily fancy every living thing dancing and singing and clapping hands for joy. Whether descended from sea-kings and pirates as is most likely, or from fighting Normans or Goths, matters not; for he was a lover sent of God to revive and cheer and bless all mankind. And this h@did in spite of crushing poverty, and …

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The National Parks And Forest Reservations., John Muir Jan 1896

The National Parks And Forest Reservations., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

268 Publications of the Sierra Club. PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING OF THE SIERRA CLUB Held November 23, 1S95. The annual public meeting of the Sierra Club was held in. the hall of the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, on the evening of Saturday, November 23, 1895. The topic announced, '' The National Parks and Forest Reservations" had brought together a large audience of members and friends of the Club. Mr. Warren Olney, Vice-President, called the meeting to order, and introduced the President of the evening in the following words: "Ladies and Gentlemen: — It is the good fortune of the …

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John Muir On Yosemite. The Mountaineer And Writer Says That The Valley Is Wrecked. 'Downtrodden And Desolate.' He Tells What He Saw And Wants The Government To Take Back The Valley., John Muir Nov 1895

John Muir On Yosemite. The Mountaineer And Writer Says That The Valley Is Wrecked. 'Downtrodden And Desolate.' He Tells What He Saw And Wants The Government To Take Back The Valley., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

O CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895. JOHN MUIR ON MIT The Mountaineer and Writer Says That the Valley Is Wrecked. "DOWNTKODDEN AND DESOLATE" He Tells What He Saw and Wants the Government to Take Back the ! Valley. The opinions and declarations of John Muir will cat a good deal of a figure in the promised controversy over the ways of the Yosemite Commissioners regarding the valley and the proposition to cede the valley back to the National Government, and Mr. Muir is anxious to start a campaign to carry out that proposition, as well as to secure further protection …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood Johnson], 1895 Oct 1 ., John Muir Oct 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood Johnson], 1895 Oct 1 ., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct. 1, 1895.

My dear Mr. Johnson,

I had a long talk the other day with the Vice President of our Sierra Club, Mr Olney, the friend of Irish, on Yosemite affairs, & after I had shown him how faithfully & well the Yosemite National Park was managed,--how sheep & destruction had been fenced out, the natural bloom & beauty called back, & how many visitors were now enjoying it; while the Valley itself, naturally the heart & soul of the park, was the only desolate neglected part of it--a frowsy, dirty, dusty, downtrodden, vular mustang pasture, going with …

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Letter From Cora Cressey Crow To John Muir, [1895 Sep]., Cora Cressey Crow Sep 1895

Letter From Cora Cressey Crow To John Muir, [1895 Sep]., Cora Cressey Crow

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[2]

homeward and now that we are [really?] settled for the winter, it seems very good to be back again for the Crows realize that "the world has a million roosts for a man but only one nest." But I am thoughtless to keep you waiting all this time, well knowing the masculine mind is prone to curiosity and you are wanting to know of our trip after leaving you--that keen morn- [frost?] & soda water & [illegible] of [illegible] ing air was sufficiently exhilerating to infect the spirits of our horses and knowing we had a long days ride …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1895 Aug 17 Or 18., John Muir Aug 1895

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1895 Aug 17 Or 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

Aug. 17 or 18 1895

Dear Louie,

I reached this cool calm nest in the sugar pines last evening. I think you will remember the the place. It is not far from the Tuolumne Sequoia grove where we had lunch on the way to the Valley 10 years ago.
I sent a pencil note to Wanda from the Tuolumne meadows at the head of the great canon by Mr Howard which I suppose was received. I had taken two of the Howard boys (Spring Valley Howards) to the top of Conness & left them at the meadows, they …

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Letter From M[Ary] L. Swett To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1895 Jun 14., Mary L. Swett Jun 1895

Letter From M[Ary] L. Swett To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1895 Jun 14., Mary L. Swett

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Hill Girt, June 14, 1895

My Dear Mrs. Muir,

Will you kindly hand the two enclosures to Mr. Muir, which I have copied from two letters received from Mrs. Forbes.
And now let me thank you and your husband heartily for the very handsome way in which you have given my darling Helen "a start in life."
She says she knows it is going to be delightful work and I hope it may

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Extract from a letter by Mrs. Alex. Forbes

"We are enjoying intensely John Muir's Mountains of California. Verily …

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The Discovery Of Glacier Bay., John Muir Jun 1895

The Discovery Of Glacier Bay., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

3VW -A THE DISCOVERY OF GLACIER BAY. BY ITS DISCOVERER. Y first visit to the now famous Glacier Bay of Alaska was made toward the end of October, 1879, wb.en young ice was beginning to form in the branch inlets occupied by the glaciers, and the mountains were mantled svith fresh snow all the way dosvn from the highest peaks and ridges of the Fair- weather Range nearly to the level of the sea. I had spent most of the season exploring the ...—"""* caiion of the Stickeen River and its glaciers, and a small portion of the interior region …

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Letter From [Grace Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Jan 17., Grace Galloway Jan 1895

Letter From [Grace Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Jan 17., Grace Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Eastman's Ranch

Jan. 17 1895

John Muir.

Martinez, Cal.

Dear Uncle John;--

I think it is high time I wrote and acknowledged the receipt of your Christmas gift, received some time ago.
It was so kind of you to think of all of your far-away Wisconsin folks.
I'm going to send away and get your

The weather was about 1/2 [bought?] & we glided along the green & yellow shore in comfort. The [lovely?] islands passing in harmonious succession like ideas an a line poem. rain did not hinder us but when the wind was too wild we stayed …

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