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The History Of Sioux County, J. W. Warnshuis

Memoirs

In 1879, Rev. J. W. Warnshuis (1840-1901) wrote a series of recollections about early Sioux County history, which were published in serial form in the Dutch-language newspaper De Volksvriend. Warnshuis describes the settlement of the county, its geography, its leaders, and its religious and educational institutions. He writes extensively about the grasshopper plagues, explaining their life cycle and suggesting methods to prevent their destruction.

Warnshuis served as an area pastor in the Reformed Church and as a Bible instructor and minister at Northwestern Classical Academy.

Translated by Dr. Paul Vander Kooi.

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.

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

American Christian Review

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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 …

American Christian Review, Vol.21, No.30, July 23, 1878

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.21, No.29, July 16, 1878

American Christian Review

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Letter From Sallie J. Kennedy To John Muir, 1878 May 8., Sallie J. Kennedy

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Have you had your mind too much engrossed by other sciences to give this one any attention? Good bye – A happy useful Summer, and Safe return;

Your friend Sallie J. Kennnedy.

May anniversaries of happy days of last Summer, if I live, will come to mind this.


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Washington, May 8th, 1878.

My dear Mr Muir

How very kind of you to send me such an excellent photograph! The likeness could not have been made stronger. I am very happy to have it. Mine was taken a month or two since and I am almost ready to …

Reminiscences Of Scotch Character., John Muir

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

DAILY EVENING BULLETIN San francisco, Saturday. April 30, 1885. NEW PUBLICATIONS. Reminiscences of Scotch Character. Dean Eamsay's Jteniin&cences o/ Scotch JAfe $c? Character i3 a charming little book—a eon- regaison of humorous stories and proverbs peculiarly Scottish, Bhining picturesquely side toy side like flowers on the sunny side of a brae. Edition after edition was called forth in Soot- land. Now it comes to us in a handsome thistly form from the American pres3. The author is manifestly a true and wise lover of his country, fondly cherishing all Scottish associations, and feeling sore at heart the fact that the …

A Treatise On The Constitutional Limitations Which Rest Upon The Legislative Power Of The States Of The American Union, Thomas M. Cooley

Books

In the Preface to the first edition of this work. the author stated its purpose to be, to furnish to the practitioner and the student of the law such a presentation of elementary constitutional principles as should serve, with the aid of its references to judicial decisions, legal treatises, and historical events, as a convenient guide in the examination of questions respecting the constitutional limitations which rest upon the power of the several State legislatures. …

Preface to the 4th Edition: "New topics in State Constitutional Law are not numerous; but such as are suggested by recent decisions have been …

Limits To State Control Of Private Business, Thomas M. Cooley

Articles

The present purpose is to inquire whether, in the matter of the regulation of property rights and of business, legislation has not of late been occupying doubtful, possibly unconstitutional grounds. The discussion in the main must be limited to fundamental.-principles, aided by such light as legal and constitutional history may throw upon them, since the express provisions of the constitutions can give little assistance. They always contain the general guaranty of due process of law to life, liberty, and property, but in other particulars they for the most part leave protection to principles which have come from the common law. …

The Method Of Electing The President, Thomas M. Cooley, Abram S. Hewitt

Articles

Twice in the history of the United States the nation has been brought to the verge of civil war by difficulties growing out of presidential elections. And yet no system was ever devised with more care to preclude any reasonable complaint.

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 …

City Of The Saints. The Grand Wasatch Mountains-A Graphic Description Of Salt Lake City-Mormon Men And Women-Latter-Day Boys And Girls. (From Our Own Correspondent.) Salt Lake City, May 15, 1877., John Muir

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

CITY OF THE SAINTS The Grand Wasatch Mountains—A Graphic Description of Salt Lake City— Mormon Men and Women—Latter-Day Boys and Girls. ____„, [PROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Salt Lake Citt, May 15, 1877. : The mountains rise grandly round about this curious elty—the Zion of the new saints—so ** grandly that the city itself is hardly visible. The Wasatch range, snow-laden and adorned with glacier—sculptured peaks, stretches continuou- ,. ly along the eastern horizon, forming thebound- | \ ary of the great Salt Lake Basin ; while across the Valley of the Jordan southwestward from l* here you behold the Oquirrh …

Letter From John H. Boyes To John Muir, 1877 Jan 22., John H. Boyes

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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St. Vincent, Jan. 22, 1877.

Dear Mr. Muir,

It has been such a long time since I received your good and kind letter that I am now almost ashamed to write an answer to it. And yet, although I have not answered it before this, the reason is not because I never thought about you. And I hardly think that it would be wisdom for me to try and excuse myself by hiding behind the refuge of no time. For I think that your answer would be that I might have so redeemed the time as to have …

1876 Oct 29 To Friend John P 4 And 1, William Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Occupied the stand. Apropriately too on either quarter are the spaces occupied by the four advanced nations of the world. England, France, United States and Prussia each with the best exhibits at the corner. The Prussian works of art and utility in Mexico is considerably the precious metal, and porcelain and poor in comparison with the others. I have no sympathy for Prussia. The American a New York firm exhibits a large case of beautiful artistic silverware but the Americans do not get very far away from utility. The French are squarely into art their exhibit of Bronze …

History And Alumni Record Of The State Normal School, Bridgewater, Mass., To July, 1876, Albert G. Boyden

Histories of Bridgewater State University

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Great Evils Resulting From The Destruction Of Forests., John Muir

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

Grea Evils from Destruction of Forests, J A / We lately asked and have received from John Muir, the7 well- know \ geologist and botanist, the following article ou the subject wanton destruction of timber by sheep-herders aud hunters, by fir and sheep, and also by saw-mills and general vandalism. The'g eat physical evils to agriculture which will result from the ction of mountain timber and shrubbery are in no wise ex- ted by Mr. Muir in this article, while outside of, and in many respects above the material damage, the lover of mountain forest will most deeply regret the …

"Wild Wool.", John Muir

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

1875.] WILD WOOL. 361 WILD WOOL. MORAL improvers have calls to preach. I have a friend who has a call to plow, and woe to the daisy sod or azalea thicket that falls under the savage redemption of his keen steel shares. Not content with the so-called subjugation of every terrestrial bog, rock, and moor-land, he would fain discover some method of reclamation applicable to the ocean and the sky, that in due calendar time they might be made to bud and blossom as the rose. Our efforts are of no avail when we seek to turn his attention to …

Shasta Game. Hunting The Wild Sheep And Mule Deer - Exciting Sport Among The Lava Cliffs - John Muir Tells What He Saw And Did. (Special Correspondent Of The Bulletin.) Sisson's Station, Near Mount Shasta, Nov. 29, 1874., John Muir

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

Daily Evening Bulletin SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 12, 1831. SHASTA GAME, Hunting t!ie Wild Sheep and Mule-Deer—Ex- cltins Sport Anions the Lava Cliffs—John — Tells what he Saw and Did. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OP THE BULLETIN.) Sisson's Station, near Mount Shasta,) November 29,1874. f The woods and waters of Shasta contain more wild life in that foim which hunters call game than those of aDy other Alpine region I have ever entered. Trout and salmon in the streams, deer and bears in the forests and wild sheep in the topmost rocks. Winter came early thts year, seeming to take even the wild …

Studies In The Sierra. No. Ii - Mountain Sculpture. - Origin Of Yosemite Valleys., John Muir

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

THE Overland Monthly DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY. Vol. i2.—JUNE,. 1874.—No. 6. STUDIES IN THE SIERRA. NO. II. —MOUNTAIN SCULPTURE. —ORIGIN OF YOSEMITE VALLEYS. ALL the valleys and canons of the western flank of the Sierra, between 360 and 390 north latitude, naturally classify themselves under two enera, each containing two species, 'genus comprehends all the slate valleys; the other all that are built of granite. The latter is far the more important, both on account of the greater extent of its' geographical range and the grandeur and simplicity of its phenomena. .wAll the valleys of both genera …

Letter From John Muir To [J. B.] Mc Chesney, 1873 Jan 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter returned to Mrs. J. B. McChesney]

Yosemite Valley,
Jun. l0th, 1873.

Dear McChesney:

I have just finished a ramble through the handsome gardens of Ruskin that you gave me. Page after page is studded with flowers like a glacier meadow, and most of his chapters of hill and dale make a handsome landscape in spite of his numberless boundaries and human-carved rocks.
Few of our modern writers are so strikingly suggestive as Ruskin. His pungent steel-tempered sentences compel one to think, and his errors and absurdities are so clearly expressed that they do good rather than harm.
Ruskin …

Letter From John Muir To [J. B.] Mc Chesney, 1873 Jan 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Yosemite Valley January 9th 1873

Dear McChesney

I have just finished a ramble through the handsome Ruskin you have me Ruskin is great but not a great man, only a great ready-to-burst bud of a man, He is fettered & bounded though his chain is [longer?] His tether seems at times to break all together & he roams over all this world & what he takes to be the next, but after all, one never can feel that he is free-, his widest world, his highest sky is inclosed by a hard definite shell, making us think of a …

On The Glaciers Of The Yosemite Valley., John Muir

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

Kneeland.; 36 On the Glacieks of the Yosemite Valley. Samuel Kneeland. [February 21, By De. There have lately come into my possession some interesting, and I think, conclusive observations as to tlie former great extent of the glacier system of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in the neighborliood of the Yosemite Valley. They seem to throw light upon the causes Avhich formed the valley, or rather, by way of exclusion, upon the forces which, did not form it. Before calling your attention to these observations, which have recently been made by Mr. John Muir, a gentleman who has made the region …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Jeanne C. Carr], 1872 Dec 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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This is about the limit of what I feel capable of doing for the public - the moiling squirming fog breathing public. But for my few friends I can do more because they already know the mtn harmonies & can catch the tones I gather for them though written in a few harsh & gravelly sentences. Here you demand an account of work accomplished for either friends or public, well this is all. Next morning after reaching Turlock I sped afoot over the stubble fields & through miles of brown [hemzon?] & purple [Eriognum?] to Hopeton conscious of but …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Joseph] Le Conte, 1872 Dec 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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main range, and vast ice floes from the Tuolumne above Hetchy Hetchy broke over into the Merced basin by the "Yo Semite, Cascade and Tamarac tributaries. Most of this Tuol- umne ice had to cross the great canon reaching from near the Soda Spring to Hetchy thus.

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Yo Dr Joseph Le Conte.

Yo Semite, Dec 17. '72

Dear Le Conte.

My seasons work is done. I have had one gen- eral view of the Merced basin above Yo Semite and am aston- ished at the magnitude of the ancient glaciers with which it was universally flooded, …

American Christian Review, Vol.15, No.40, October 1, 1872

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.15, No.39, September 24, 1872

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.15, No.32, August 6, 1872

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.15, No.29, July 16, 1872

American Christian Review

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American Christian Review, Vol.15, No.26, June 25, 1872

American Christian Review

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