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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Sep 21., Robert Underwood Johnson Sep 1899

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Sep 21., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

September 21, 1899.

X. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

X. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir,

The inclosed letter has just cone back to me through the mail. I hope it is not too late for it to accomplish its purpose of accenting my introduction to you of Mr. and Mrs. Seton Thompson.
I am in your debt for a very nice letter of the 16th of August, and thank you heartily for your wish that I might have been with you. I thought of you many a time during the …

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Letter From John Muir To Charlie [A. Keeler], 1899 Sep 18., John Muir Sep 1899

Letter From John Muir To Charlie [A. Keeler], 1899 Sep 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Sep. 18. 1899.

Dear [post?] Charlie.

Today I send Mr Keeler by Ex. the copy of my Shasta I promised when you were here. I'm sorry It is so ragged but its the best I can do.
Now dont forget the cottage scheme. It will cost little or nothing. You can come & go as you like, & your health may be benefitted.
We all enjoyed your visit everso much, Come again any time.

With best wishes

Ever Your friend

John Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 Sep 18., John Muir Sep 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 Sep 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Fir Flowers

Martinez Sep. 18. 1899.

My dear Mr Lukens.

The growth of you refer to on the under side of the fir branches are the male flowers. In the spring they are purple & make a fine show. The two firs are easily distinguished by their bark that of the con color is gray. of the magnifica purplish red. The crimson rosettes on the ends of the pine branchlets among the needles are the female flowers. The male are an inch or more long, in conspicuous clusters.
I am very glad to hear that your family are all well. …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Sep 13., Charles Sprague Sargent Sep 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Sep 13., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Jamaica Plain, Mass., September 13, 1899.

My dear Muir:

Why is it that [guitters] are always obstinate? If you deny this proposition, prove it by making your appearance in St. Louis at the end of next week. I expect now to leave here on the 19th and go by Chicago and Peoria, Illinois, to St. Louis, arriving there Thursday or Friday, the 21st or 22nd. Canby will go directly to St. Louis from Wilmington, meeting me there. We shall probably stay in the neighborhood of St, Louis for at least three days before starting southward, so you will have abundant …

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Letter From R. G. Slifer To John Muir, 1899 Sep 10., R. G. Slifer Sep 1899

Letter From R. G. Slifer To John Muir, 1899 Sep 10., R. G. Slifer

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Kodiak, Alaska, September 10, 1899.

Prof. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal,

My Dear Sir:-

The mail boat yesterday brought me the two volumes that you sent me. Will you accept my hearty thanks for your great kindness? You may be sure that it has been appreciated very much indeed. I have had time to merely glance over "The Mountains of California" but I know that I shall enjoy it, I will prize it especially because it is the gift of the author as I think I told you that I would never have come to Alaska had it not been for …

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Letter From P. A. Doran To John Muir, 1899 Sep 8., P. A. Doran Sep 1899

Letter From P. A. Doran To John Muir, 1899 Sep 8., P. A. Doran

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

san Francisco Sept 8th, 99.

Professor John Muir,

Martinez, Cal.

My Dear Professor;

I received your book and many thanks to you. I can see your many characteristics throughout the work, and every page reminds me of the pleasant hours spent together during our voyage to Alaska. To say the least it is a noble and interesting work, and we are all delighted with it. I forward you a copy of the H.A.E. poems. I would have send them before but I was called to Portland unexpectedly, to take command of S.S. "Columbia". Should you contemplate a trip to Portland, …

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Letter From Bliss Perry To John Muir, 1899 Sep 7., Bliss Perry Sep 1899

Letter From Bliss Perry To John Muir, 1899 Sep 7., Bliss Perry

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

answer as you are now able to give us as to the time when all the papers may be expected here.
I am

Very sincerely yours,

[illegible] Perry

Mr. John Muir.

September 7, 1899.

My dear Mr. Muir,

Among the memoranda left for me by Mr. Walter H. Page, the retiring Editor of the Atlantic, I note with very great pleasure your promise to contribute three more articles, one to be on ”Trees, Shrubs, Gardens etc., of the Yosemite”, one on "The Lakes, Streams, Canons, etc., etc.”of the same region, and one on the "Sequoia National Park". I write now …

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Letter From R[Aymond] H. Aront To John Muir, 1899 Sep 6., Raymond H. Aront Sep 1899

Letter From R[Aymond] H. Aront To John Muir, 1899 Sep 6., Raymond H. Aront

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

6 Sept. 1899

My dear Mr. Muir,

Please accept the sincere thanks of the members of the Rochester Modern History Club for the photographs of the Muir Glacier, and of you. After Enlargement they will be hung upon our walls.
I hope you will not deem me impertinent if I ask you two questions. Last Saturday I was at Niagara Falls. On the Canadian side there is a pyramid which surmounts a [Otone?] which is said to prove Agassiz's glacial theory.

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May I ask you to tell me in a very few words what Agassiz's …

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Letter From G[Rove] K[Arl] Gilbert To John Muir, 1899 Sep 3., Grove Karl Gilbert Sep 1899

Letter From G[Rove] K[Arl] Gilbert To John Muir, 1899 Sep 3., Grove Karl Gilbert

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Portland, Sept. 8, 1899

My dear Mr. Muir

It naturally gave me pain to note that your abiding forth in glaciers seemed to leave little room for faith of another order and I resolved to apply the antidote at the earliest opportunity. There will come to you by mail from the publisher a little volume entitled "Inquirendo Island", for which I bespeak your warmest attention. as a lady recently wrote me regarding "Sartor

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resartus", you should so far as possible empty your mind of preconceptions when you open the book so as to approach it in a …

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Workaday World, September 1899, University Of The Pacific Sep 1899

Workaday World, September 1899, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1899 Aug 31., John Muir Aug 1899

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1899 Aug 31., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal. Aug. 31, 1899.

My dear Sellers

I was very glad to hear from you. I was thinking about you when your letter came. I hope that confounded devouring business will not be the death of you all before you are free from it. No wonder you are not feeling well I dont think I could stand it a week. Your month at the lake club will do some good but you should some to the Sierra. I got back nearly a month ago but have made a short trip to the California Sequoias. The weather all through the …

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Letter From S. Hall Young To John Muir, 1899 Aug 31., S. Hall Young Aug 1899

Letter From S. Hall Young To John Muir, 1899 Aug 31., S. Hall Young

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

St. Michael, Alaska

Aug. 31st, 1899.

My Dear Friend Muir:

I have just arrived in the [illegible] after an eventful & busy summer in the valley of the great Yukon. I was delayed a month in all at Skagway, more than a week after I saw you. Then I went over to Bennett, bought a Klondyke boat & Mr. Koonce navigated it with our nearly three tons of goods down to Ra[illegible]. It was the first week in July before we arrived at our first camping place, where we were to remain any time, - Eagle, just across the line …

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Letter From John Muir To Mary [Harriman Et Al.], 1899 Aug 30., John Muir Aug 1899

Letter From John Muir To Mary [Harriman Et Al.], 1899 Aug 30., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To the "Big Four": the misses Mary and Cornelia Harriman,and the misses Elizabeth [illegible]and Dorothea Draper

[Rough Draft of letter]

["Big Four": refers to Mary and Cornelia Harriman, Elizabeth Averell & Dorothea?
[Martinez],Aug. 30,1899.

Girls four, Mary and Cornelia, Elizabeth and Dorothea -- the "Big Four"Who with Carol and Roland Harriman, the "Little Two", kept us all young on the never-to-be-forgotten H.A.E.1

Dear Girls:

I received your kind compound letter from the R.R. washout with great pleasure, for it showed, as I fondly thought, that no wreck, washout, or crevasse of any sort will be likely to break or wash …

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Letter From D. L. Bliss To John Muir, 1899 Aug 29., D. L. Bliss Aug 1899

Letter From D. L. Bliss To John Muir, 1899 Aug 29., D. L. Bliss

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

August 29th 1899

John Muir Esq

Dear Sir

I am very anious to see you in regard to the Lake Tahoe Government Reservation and will be in San Francisco balance of this week. Will you be in the City between this time and Sunday or if not will you be at Martinez Sunday and can I see you there. Can arrange either way to [illegible] your convenience Will you kindly

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write me at #1208 Claus Spreckles Building and let me know where & when I can have an interview with you by so doing you …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Aug 29., Charles Sprague Sargent Aug 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Aug 29., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.,......August....29,.....1899.

My dear Muir:

I have always said you were Illegible and your letter of the 18th con-firms my opinion. The idea of pleading the necessity of staying in the house to string words together when you can be in the woods looking at Crataegus ! You may deceive yourself with such platitudes but they make no impression on me, so please be prepared to meet me in St. Louis when you hear that I can be there. It will be a little later than I supposed and very likely not until the end …

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Letter From Adeline Knapp To John Muir, 1899 Aug 27., Adeline Knapp Aug 1899

Letter From Adeline Knapp To John Muir, 1899 Aug 27., Adeline Knapp

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

My dear Mr. Muir:

You will see by the enclosed clipping that The Bulletin is willing to take up this question of bird destruction. Some of us hope to persuade certain of the women's club to take action in the matter. I purpose following this up with another article with interviews etc from some of our bird lovers. Will you please send me a few lines on the subject? Write what you feel [moved?] to say, and let me print it. The [willeners?] say that not in 20 years have birds been used for trimining as they are this winter. …

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Letter From Anne H. Colver [Mrs. Henry Clay Colver] To John Muir, 1899 Aug 25., Anne H. Colver Aug 1899

Letter From Anne H. Colver [Mrs. Henry Clay Colver] To John Muir, 1899 Aug 25., Anne H. Colver

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I must express my gratitude to you for giving me the joy of meeting him, whom I had long loved, but never hoped to meet.
I want to say one work to you about your story of you and the dog Stickeen on a glacier. I have known people who wanted that in some form by itself. Don't you think it would find a sine sale as one of the

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1303-16th Ave. Seattle

August 25th-'99

Dear Mr Muir: -

When I heard the Harriman Expedition was really coming back this way, but not, the steamship company assured me, …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Aug 24., Charles Sprague Sargent Aug 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Aug 24., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.,......August....24, 1899.

My dear Muir:I have been much disappointed at not getting any word from you since your return. I hope this does not mean that you are ill or are forgetting old friends.
I am very keen for having you for a companion on this last botanical journey which I expect to make. I may not get away quite as early as the 15th; possibly about September 20th would be a good time to meet in St. Louis. In any case do not go back on me and we will arrange details later. …

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Letter From Robert Ridgway To John Muir, 1899 Aug 23., Robert Ridgway Aug 1899

Letter From Robert Ridgway To John Muir, 1899 Aug 23., Robert Ridgway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Brookland, D.C.

August 23, 1899.

Dear Mr. Muir:

Since my return home I have been so busy with various urgent matters that I have not yet had time to print and mount all of the tree views (Wabash Valley) which I am going to send you, and, owing to repairs in the building where my office is located I have not been able to get at the pamphlets on trees that I mention to you.
I shall not forget them, however, & will get them all off to you soon as prac-

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Your paper on Sequoia gigantea …

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Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1899 Aug 21., Alfred H. Sellers Aug 1899

Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1899 Aug 21., Alfred H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Aug 21, 1899

My dear friend Muir -

We see by the papers that the Harriman Expedition has returned. As your name is not mentioned it is possible that you have stayed in Alaska for a little uninterrupted work. We hope however that you have gotten home safely and well.
Our friend Keith passed through here Friday on his way home from Europe and spent several hours with us to out great enjoyment. We begged him to stay longer but he said he was "nothing but a California gopher" and was in a hurry to get back to his …

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Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1899 Aug 20., Gifford Pinchot Aug 1899

Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1899 Aug 20., Gifford Pinchot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

Aug 20, 1899.

Dear Mr. Muir,

I could not write you on Monday before leaving San Francisco because I did not see Reinstein until the second time I called, about 4pm., and after that I had to get ready for the six o'clock train. Reinstein had a sick headache or neuralgia, or some other trouble that [induced?] him to tie his head up in a towel, but Newell & I had a good talk with him, short as it was. We said little about the Redwood Canyon, but as I am to prepare a scheme for the spending …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Aug 16., John Muir Aug 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Aug 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Aug. 16, 1899.

My dear Mr Johnson

I got back from Alaska more than a week ago but had to go to the Caliveras Grove of Big Trees with Pinchot & Dr Merriam on hearing that they were in danger of being sold & made into lumber. Mr Sperry who owns the grove & 3000 acres about it said that he had been offered $100,000 for 2000 acres but was not going to sell yet, & in any case he would let me know what his offer was before selling--So these northern Sequoias are all right as yet--Our Alaska …

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Cataloging, By Esther Crawford, Esther Crawford, C. E. Addens Aug 1899

Cataloging, By Esther Crawford, Esther Crawford, C. E. Addens

Reports of the Secretary to the President Student Affairs President’s Correspondence, 1900-1907

Booklet concerning cataloging in the library, with an order invoice inside.

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Letter From Beth [Averell]Et Al.] To John Muir, 1899 Aug 4-6., Betty Averell Aug 1899

Letter From Beth [Averell]Et Al.] To John Muir, 1899 Aug 4-6., Betty Averell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Following letters all aritten on same sheet of paper]

August 5th, [1899]

Dear Mr. Muir:

As I waited until the morning to write I can tell you more news. How we are at Solidude, the scene of the wreck -- and indeed the name of the place is in keeping with our feelings -- for the fragments of the H. A. E. [Harriman Alaska Expedition] are sad and lonely, not because we haven't "ham and eggs" but because we haven't you. Next time you see Prof, Ritter be sure to call him Prof. Earlybird, for he catches the work, you …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Aug 4., Charles Sprague Sargent Aug 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Aug 4., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Jamaica Plain, Mass, August 4, 1899.
My dear Muir:

I see by the papers that your party has been in Oregon. I hope you are with it, but as the despatch says nothing about an epidemic of premature deafness among the members of the expedition I am afraid they may have left you somewhere behind. Please relieve my anxiety on this point as soon as possible, and, if this letter reaches you, tell me something of your experiences and of the new sights and especially of the new trees which you have seen. Please also make …

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Yosemite National Park., John Muir Aug 1899

Yosemite National Park., John Muir

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

THE jfW ATLANTIC MONTHLY: aga?me of literature, Science, art, anD politico Vol. LXXXIV. — AUGUST, 1899. — No. DII. THE YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK. Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best. Though extremely rugged, with its main features on the grandest scale in height and depth, it is nevertheless easy of access and hospitable ; and its marvelous beauty, displayed in striking and alluring' forms, wooes the admiring wanderer on and on, higher and higher, charmed and enchanted. Benevolent, solemn, fateful, pervaded with divine light, every landscape glows like a countenance hallowed in …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Jul 28., Robert Underwood Johnson Jul 1899

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Jul 28., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL-DEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE
July 28, 1899.
UNION'SQUARE-NEW-YORK

R.W. GILDER. EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr. John Muir,
On the Harriman Expedition,
Victoria, B C.

My dear Muir,

I have your letter from Alaska and am very sorry that I am not with you.I write you now hastily, to say that Mr. Ernest Seton Thompson, author of "Wild Animals I have Known," (whose work you doubtless know) is going to California and will present a card to you. He and his wife are very attractive and great out-door people, besides being scientific and knowing all …

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Letter From [Henry Fairfield Osborn] To John Muir, 1899 Jul 17., Henry Fairfield Osborn Jul 1899

Letter From [Henry Fairfield Osborn] To John Muir, 1899 Jul 17., Henry Fairfield Osborn

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

2000. 4-'99.

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,

CENTRAL PARK (77th ST. & CENTRAL PARK, WEST)

.DEPARTMENT OF
VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY

NEW YORK, July 17th 1899.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez,
California.

My dear friends:-

We have thought of you very often this Spring on your journey to Alaska, surrounded by many philosophers with every kind of training and scientific temperament. No news has come from the party, except a letter from Dr. Duncan's mission. I have no doubt you have found it delightful.
I am just off for the great bone quarry in Wyoming. I hope to spend a fortnight there prospecting …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Wanda, Helen [Louie], 1899 Jul 8., John Muir Jul 1899

Letter From [John Muir] To Wanda, Helen [Louie], 1899 Jul 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To Wanda Muir

Unalaska, July 8, 1899

My dear Wanda and Helen and Mama:

We arrived here this cloudy, rainy, foggy morning after a glorious sail from Sand Harbor on Unga Island, one of the Shumagin group, all the way along the volcano-dotted coast of the Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island. The volcanoes are about as thick as haycocks on our alfalfa field in a wet year, and the highest of them are smoking and steaming in grand style, Shishaldin is the handsomest volcanic cone I ever saw and it looked like this last evening. [Drawing], I'll show you a …

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1899 Jul 8 Jm To Wanda, Helen,Mamma, John Muir Jul 1899

1899 Jul 8 Jm To Wanda, Helen,Mamma, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Page 1] br> Oonalaska, July 8, 1899br> My dear Wanda + Helen and Mama. br> We arrived here this cloudy, rainy, foggy morning after a glorious sail from Sand Harbor on Unga Island, one of the Shumagin group, all the way along the volcano-dotted coast of the Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island. The volcanoes are about as thick as haycocks on our alfalfa field in a wet year, and the highest of them are smoking and steaming in grand style, Shishaldin is the handsomest volcanic cone I ever saw and it looked like this last evening. [Drawing: about 9000 ft …

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