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American Christian Review, Vol.22, No.10, March 4, 1879

American Christian Review

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The Passes Of The Sierra., John Muir

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

644 THE PASSES OF THE, SIERRA. — THE "PASSES OF THE SIERRA. /The sustained grandeur of the California 1 iftips. is forcibly illustrated by the fact that, | 'throughout their whole extent, there is not a single pass lower than'pooo feet above the ; level of the sea. In a distance of 140 miles, J between Latitude 360 20' and 380, the low-', ,, jest I have yet found exceeds 9,000 feet, and:, s~j\the average height of all that are in use is, I perhaps, not far from ii,ooo \j-ti-tA ~ THE PASSES OF THE SIERRA. 645 4 J his …

American Christian Review, Vol.22, No.9, February 25, 1879

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.22, No.7, February 11, 1879

American Christian Review

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The Great Basin. Some Interesting Facts About It-Lecture By John Muir., John Muir

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

THE GREAT BASIN. Some Interesting Facts About It- toy John Muir. -Lecture John Muir, the -distinguished geologist and naturalist who has been termed the Thoreau of the Sierra, lectured before the-Sacramento Literary Institute at the Congregational Church las fc evening, on "The Great Basin." He was received by a large and very superior audience. He spoke for nearly two hours and kept the close attention of his audience throughout. Mr. Muir is not a lecturer; he is a simple unskilled talker, a man who lives in the free air of the mountains, and whose highest ambition is to delve into …

Moses Fargos -- Orderly Book, Moses Fargos

Primary Sources

This is the orderly book of Moses Fargos for the use of William Coit's company which is the 4th Company and 6th Regiment under Colonel Samuel Holden Parsons. It covers the period of April 23, 1775 to August 7, 1775 and includes General George Washington's commission to William Coit.

A Concise Journal Or Minutes Of The Principal Movements Towards St. John's Of The Siege And Surrender Of The Forts There In 1775, Benjamin Trumbull

Primary Sources

Covers the period July 26 to November 3, 1775.

Survey Operations Of The Afghanistan Expedition: The Kurram Valley, Gerald Martin, Captain

Books in English

A narrative report of the proceedings of the survey party attached to the Kurram Valley field force. Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography; No. 10 (October 1879), p. 617-645

The Mountain Lakes Of California., John Muir

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

THE MOUNTAIN LAKES OF CALIFORNIA. 4ii TO MODJESKA. There are four sisters known to mortals well, Whose names are Joy and Sorrow, Death, and Love: This last it was who did my footsteps move To where the other deep-eyed sisters dwell., To-night, or ere yon painted curtain fell, These, one by one, before my eyes did rove Through the brave mimic world that Shakspere wove. Lady! thy art, thy passion were the spell That held me, and still holds; for thou dost show, With those most high each in his sovereign art,— Shakspere supreme, Beethoven and Angelo,— Great art and …

American Christian Review, Vol.22, No.1, January 1, 1879

American Christian Review

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The Kabul Insurrection Of 1841-42, Vincent Eyre

Books in English

Written by Major-General Sir Vincent Eyre, edited by Colonel G. B. Malleson.

Revised and corrected from Lieutenant Eyre's original manuscript. Previously published under title : The military operations at Cabul, which ended in the retreat and destruction of the British Army, January 1842.

The Douglass Squirrel Of California., John Muir

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

260 THE DOUGLASS SQUIRREL OF CALIFORNIA. way and get himself a good wife, and then it would be well to have the linen marked with his own name so he wouldn't have to buy it all new. Here you see, Thorarin— and then to think that he should never come home to his mother again and never go to Norway and never get any wife." Mrs. Raven stood tearfully viewing the pillow-case with the embroidered initials, but seeing that her companion was too much absorbed in the present misfortune to have much sympathy to spare for her, she laid it …

American Christian Review, Vol.21, No.48, November 26, 1878

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.21, No.47, November 19, 1878

American Christian Review

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Letter From Janet Douglass [Moores] To John Muir, 1878 Nov 17 ., Janet Douglass Moores

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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ject. How I should like to hear you talk about them. You could tell me so much. Prof. Jordan is not more than twenty-seven, but a re- markably intelligent man. He has written two books on Vertebrate animals. I think. He has read your articles & Aunt Kate & I have talked to him about you so that he wants to know when you are coming back to Indi- ana. Just think, if the face out west were as cheap in proportion as it is [ in?] New York at present, that is one dollar. You might have us …

The New Sequoia Forests Of California., John Muir

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

THE NEW SEQUOIA FORESTS OF CALIFORNIA. 813 Exchange until 1811, when it changed to the old conveut of the Miuiuies, and there "began to form the Museum. Oue of Teniers's sous having entered the order of San Franciscans at Mechlin, Lis father presented the convent with uiuetee'u pictures representing the nineteen martyrs of Gorcum. They were in the same conveut as late as the middle of the last century. Terriers was twice married. After many years Anne Breughel died; and though the marriage contract had been so drawn that, in case of her dying first, her large fortune should go …

Nevada Forests. Coniferous Trees In The Great Basin-The Timber Line. Pine Nut Forest-Pine Nuts As Food-Pine Nut Harvests. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Eureka, Nev., October 22, 1878., John Muir

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

NEVADA FORESTS. Coniferous Trees fn trie Great Basin- The Timber Xiine. iise Nat Forests-Pine Nats as Food-Pin [SPECIAL COSRESPQNDENCE 0 Eureka, Nev., October 22,1878. When the traveler from California has crossed the Sierra and gone a little way down the eastern flank,the woods come to an end about as suddenly and completely as if, going westward, reached the ocean. From the very noblest he had forests in the world he emerges into free sunshine and dead alkaline lake levels. Mountains are seen beyond rising in bewildering abundance, range beyond range, their summits deep in the thin white sky. But however …

Letter From Moses Woolson To John Muir, 1878 Oct 19., Moses Woolson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I have a very poor opinion of a minister who can start a crusade of hunters into the wilderness to Mu[illegible]a godi dear children of the [illegible] woods. So thanks for what you have written in [underlined: that] [ pen?]. Madam is making much of her Yo Semite lecture. Nothing can be finer, is [underlined: my] opinion, bu your own spirited writing. She goes to Newport R. [best gess: T.] to deliver it f[illegible] [illegible] 100 [ in a few weeks.?] I [illegible] the [illegible] [underlined: up] with the latest knowledge upon the Yo Semite. I fear she does …

Letter From John Muir To [John] Strentzel, 1878 Sep 28., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[ Ward?] Nevada Saturday morning Sep’ 28th 1878.

Dear Doctor, Your kind letter of the 8th [illegible] reached me yesterday. having been forwarded from Hamilton This is a little three year old mining town where we are making a few days halt to transact some business & rest the wary animals. We arrived late when it was too dark to set the tents & we recklessly camped in a corral on a breezy hilltop. I have a great horror of sleeping upon any trodden ground near human settlements not to say amoniacal pens but the captn had his blankets …

Letter From John Muir To Strentzel [Family], 1878 Aug 28., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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In camp near Belmont Nevada Aug’ 28th 1878 —

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Dear Strentzels.

I sent you a note from Austin. Thence we traveled southward down the Big Smoky Valley, crossing & recrossing it between the [Toryabet?] & Toquima ranges, the [illegible] summits of which we ascended. Thence still southward towards death valley to Lone Mountain thence Northeastward to this little [ mining?] town — From the summit of a huge volcanic table mountain in the Toquima range I observed a truly glorious spet[illegible] – a dozen Nevada “Cloud bursts” falling at once While we were cordially pelted with …

American Christian Review, Vol.21, No.34, August 20, 1878

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American Christian Review, Vol.21, No.31, July 30, 1878

American Christian Review

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The Humming-Bird Of The California Water-Falls., John Muir

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

THE HUMMING-BIRD OF THE CALIFORNIA WATER-FALLS. 545 THE HUMMING-BIRD OF THE CALIFORNIA WATER-FALLS. WATER-OUZEL DIVING AND FEEDING. The water-falls of the Sierra Nevada are frequented by only one bird, the ouzel or water-thrush (Cinches Mexicanus, Sw.). He is a singularly joyous and lovable little fellow, about the size of a robin, clad in a plain water-proof suit of a blackish, bluish gray, with a tinge of chocolate on the head and shoulders. In form he is about as smoothly plump and compact as a pot-hole pebble; the flowing contour of his body being interrupted only by his strong feet and …

Letter From John Muir To [Annie Kennedy] Bidwell, 1878 Feb 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1419 [illegible] St. San Francisco, Cal [ Feb. 1st, 1878?]

My dear Mrs Bidwell

I was delighted with your fine long sparkling letter of Jan’ 21, which reached me just after posting a short note to you. Your account of your scientific [ discussions?] with Gunning is very amusing & I could not help being pleased to know that he had caught a truth-loving Tartar, the only kind of which such so- called scientists are afraid. You ask my opinion of this gentleman. I know very little about him nor will I be likely to know much more, because I …

Letter From Annie K[Ennedy] Bidwell To John Muir, 1878 Jan 21., Annie Kennedy Bidwell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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attach your autograph. Did you know I accompanied my sister as far as Battle Mountain on her journey home. Well I did, and we stopped at Lake Tahoe, and sailed over these wonderful wa- ters from nine A.M. until four P.M. ever amazed at the varied beauties thereof. Beautiful gems seemed to sparkle in the sunlight as the spray was strown up by the boat. Even saphires of exquisite brilliancy, and emeralds, & innumerable gems. I sit now and closing my eyes see it all, and look down into the wondrous beauty of the water; silver, pearl, blue, green, …

Letter From John Muir To [John Bidwell], 1877 Dec 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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1419 Taylor St San Francisco Dec 3d 1877

My dear General.

I arrived in my old winter quarters here a week ago, My seasons field- -work done, & I was just sitting down to write to Mrs Bidwell when your letter of Nov 29th came in. The tardiness of my Kings River post. is easily explained. I committed it to the care of a mountaineer who was about to descend to the lowlands, & he probably carried it for a month or so in his breeches pocket in accordance with the well known business habits of that class …

Letter From John Muir To [Annie And John Bidwell And Sallie Kennedy], 1877 Oct 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Page 1. Sacramento Oct 10th 1877

[underlined: Friends three]. The Chico flagship & I are safely arrived in Sacramento, unwrecked, unsnagged, & the whole winding way was one glorious strip of enjoyment. When I bade you goodbye, on the bank I was benumbed & bent down with your lavish kind= nesses like one of your vine laden willows. it is seldom that I ex= perience much difficultly in leaving civilization for Gods wilds, but I was loathe indeed to leave you three that day after our long free ramble in the mountain woods & that five weeks rest in your …

Letter From John Muir To [Annie And John Bidwell And Sallie Kennedy], 1877 Oct 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[pg. 3 is repeat of doc. 0583]


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[pg. 1 is repeat of doc. 0577]

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[repeat of documents 0579 & 0581, reel 3]

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[this page of letter was already completed, reel 3, documents 0585 & 0587]

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the current, I overheard a deck hand on one of the steamers say, "Now that's what I call taking it Aisy". I am still at a loss to know what there is in the rig or model of the Jumper that excited such universal curiosity. Even the birds of the river, & the animals that came …

Snow Storm On Mount Shasta., John Muir

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

SNOW-STORM ON MOUNT SHASTA. 521 SNOW-STORM ON MOUNT SHASTA. MOUNT SHASTA, situated near the northern extremity of the Sierra Nevada, rises in solitary grandeur from a lightly sculptured lava plain, and maintains a far more impressive and commanding individuality than any other mountain within the limits of California. Go where yon will within a radius of from fifty to a hundred miles, there stands the colossal cone of X Ja U-C *- and age. A few tufaceous and brecciated beds are visible in eroded sections near the summit, but pumice and obsidian, usually so abundant in other volcanic regions throughout …

Mormon Lilies. Liliaceous Wonder-A Mountain Covered With Flowers Gorgeous Lily Gardens-A Sublime Scene-The Queen Of All. (Special Correspondence Of The Bulletin.) Salt Lake, July, 1877., John Muir

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

San Francisco, Thursday, July 19, 1877. mRmm lilies. lalinceous Wonders—A Mountain Covered with Flowers—tJorseons Lily Gardens—A Bublime Scene—The 4neen City of All. [SPECIAL C0EKESP0NDENCE OP THE BULLETIN.] 8am Lake, July, 1877. Lilies are rare in Utah, so also are their companions, the ferns and orchids, chiefly on account of the fiery saltness of the soil and climate. You may walk the deserts of the Great Basin in the bloom time of the year, all the way across from the snowy Sierra to the snowy Wasatch, and your eyes will be filled with many a gay malva, and poppy, and abronia, …