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Letter From S.L. [Erwin] To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1897 Sep 25, S. L. Erwin Sep 1897

Letter From S.L. [Erwin] To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1897 Sep 25, S. L. Erwin

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Honey Grove, Texas Sept. 25, 1897 Miss Wanda Muir., Martinez, California. Dear Wanda:- We are all grieved beyond words at the sad news just given us by Uncle Bud of poor Auntie’s death. To say it was a surprise would hardly be warranted, since we have be constantly advised of her condition, and still it was a great shock to me. I had allowed myself to hope against reason that she might yet recover, and now that it is all over, I can readily understand that that my wishes, not my judgement, have ruled in what I have allowed myself …

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Letter From C[Harles] K[Endall] Adams To John Muir, 1897 Sep 22., Charles Kendall Adams Sep 1897

Letter From C[Harles] K[Endall] Adams To John Muir, 1897 Sep 22., Charles Kendall Adams

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
MADISON

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

September 22nd, 1897.

Mr. John Muir, LL. D.,
Martinez, California.

My dear Dr. Muir:

On my return after an absence of some weeks I find upon my table your letter of July 8th. Though it does not seem to require an answer, I cannot deny myself the pleasure of informing you that it was received and that it gave me great satisfaction. We at this University are proud of the work you have done and are still doing, and we shall continue to watch with interest whatever of your writings comes under …

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Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1897 Sep 2., Wanda Muir Sep 1897

Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1897 Sep 2., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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is pretty well now. Day before yesterday Aunt Mary and Helen and I had a fine walk on the hills, Aunt Mary does not get tired as easily as when she first came.
I have not had a bit of trouble with my eyes since I have been wearing "goggles" and will be ready to learn some lessons when you come home.
When will you be home? I hope you will be here soon for we are a rather dull household and need you to keep us lively.

Lovingly your daughter

Wanda Muir

[1]

Martinez Calif

Sep 2. 1897 …

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Sep 1., Walter H. Page Sep 1897

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Sep 1., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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the Century Company would probably wish to publish them, and you implied that, while you had no arrangement with them, it would be more or less natural for them to expect the book, inasmuch as they re-published in book form the papers that make up "The Mountains of California". The policy (I prefer, indeed, to call it a principle) of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company has always been not to poach on other publishers' preserves, and to regard an obligation of an author to his publisher as an intimate and inviolable relation. I can, therefore, say nothing, and should …

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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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Work-A-Day World, September 1897, University Of The Pacific Sep 1897

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

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From Flavel Simonson To John Muir, 1897 Aug 28., Flavel Simonson Aug 1897

Letter From Flavel Simonson To John Muir, 1897 Aug 28., Flavel Simonson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Sterling Ill. Aug 28, 1897

Prof. John Muir

Dear Sir_

Myself and others expect to send a committee to the coast of Alaska to look for a lead-gold-mine that can be bought.
If you will kindly give us some information where to look for such property we will remember you with a block of full-paid stock in our Co. when organized and will also thank you for such information as you choose to give.
Without other apology for this familiarity I will say that the excitement of gold discovery prompts acts otherwise discourteous.

Yours truly

Flavel Simonson

Get rich quick …

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Letter From Cornelius B. Bradley To John Muir, 1897 Aug 28., Cornelius B. Bradley Aug 1897

Letter From Cornelius B. Bradley To John Muir, 1897 Aug 28., Cornelius B. Bradley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Berkeley, Calif., Aug. 28, 1897.

My dear Mr. Muir,

I have undertaken a rash thing: no less than the furnishing to our University Magazine a bibliography of your publications to make part of a "Muir number" to come out in November or December. I have, of course, access to what has been printed on the subject in the Overland; but I do not know without some guidance from you whether those compilers really covered all the ground up to that date, nor how I shall make sure that I get all you have published since then. Have you a …

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Letter From W. R. Muir To John Muir, 1897 Aug 26., W. R. Muir Aug 1897

Letter From W. R. Muir To John Muir, 1897 Aug 26., W. R. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

La Grango Mo.

Aug. 26, 1897.

John Muir,

Port Townsend Wash.

Dear Sir;

Having read your views of the Yukon District which did not give your idea as to the best time to go to Alaska I would like to know if it is convenient for you to write. Also the best part of the district, and and the clothes one aught to take.
I have often wondered how the glacier got

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its name but never knew until I saw you article in the Republic.

Yours respectfully

W.R. Muir

Other Muir

[in margin: 926]

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John Muir On The Sea. He Writes Of The Throng Pushing Northward. The Scientist Advises Fortune-Hunters Not To Be In A Hurry. Spend This Winter Trying Your 'Prentice Hands On The Gold Belt Of The Sierras .... ' Port Townsend, August 22., John Muir Aug 1897

John Muir On The Sea. He Writes Of The Throng Pushing Northward. The Scientist Advises Fortune-Hunters Not To Be In A Hurry. Spend This Winter Trying Your 'Prentice Hands On The Gold Belt Of The Sierras .... ' Port Townsend, August 22., John Muir

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

1 -i N He Writes of the Thr The Scientist Advises Fortune- Hunters Not to Be in a Hi Spend This Winter Trying Your 'Prentice Hands on the Gold Belt of the Sierras. TEJy Professor Jolrxtn. lVIu.ii-. f ORT TOWNSBND, August 22.—Though the open seas t'o the frosty goldfields of A4 the north ai, fast drawing to a close, and white winter stands ready to lock the .mountain doors against all save the hardiest mountaineers, the tide .of travel to the Yukon goes wraely on like a hot stream that refuses to be frozen overV laden with picks, shovels and …

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Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1897 Aug 22., John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1897 Aug 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 22, 1897.

My dear wife:

I was very glad to receive your letter and clippings which were handed me a few minutes ago on the Queen. We are not to leave here until ten o'clock tonight so much freight has to he got on board. So I feel sure I will get a last word from you in reply to my telegram sent last evening. I'm sorry Grandma continues so weak. Of course you will all try to cheer her up. It must be very hard to lie so long helpless and all the time looking …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1897 Aug 22., John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1897 Aug 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 22, 1897.

My darling Helen:

I wish you and Wanda and Mary could be with me to see the grand mountains and glaciers. The little Tawny must he getting very wise and smart, and the kitty crop of the rose bushes must be fine this year. You must enjoy the sweetwater grapes. I have not seen any up here, but plenty of green, sour muscats, and Bartlett pears.
Wanda must look most solemnly imposing in goggly glasses, but if it cures her headaches the goggling must not count and we'll soon get used to it. I …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen Muir, 1897 Aug 22, John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To Helen Muir, 1897 Aug 22, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Aug. 22 1897 (Port Townsend, Wash)

My darling Helen, I wish you and Wanda and Mary could be with me to see the grand mountains and glaciers. The little tawny must be getting very wise and smart, and the kitty crop of the rose bushes must be [ ] this year. You must enjoy the sweetwater grapes I have not seen any up here, but plenty of green sour muscats and Bartlett pears.

Wanda must look most solemnly imposing in goggly glasses but if it cures her headaches the goggling must not count and we’ll soon get used to it. …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1897 Aug 19., John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1897 Aug 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Aug. 19 1897

My dear Helen,

I felt awfully frightened when mamma telegraphed you had the whooping cough. I wanted to go right home to you, but it said you were nearly well I wish I could get a letter from you, but Ive been moving about so much I hardly expect to receive any letters until I get back to Port Townsend which will be in about two weeks. Then I mean to start for home. We are going over to Port Townsend tomorrow morning, then out to the woods thirty miles from there to see some big …

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He Will Write For 'The Examiner' And 'Journal.' John Muir Will Describe The Mountain Passes And The Climate Of The Yukon Country., John Muir Aug 1897

He Will Write For 'The Examiner' And 'Journal.' John Muir Will Describe The Mountain Passes And The Climate Of The Yukon Country., John Muir

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

WEDNESDAY MOBNINOt AUGUST 18, i? HE WILL WRITE TOR "THE EXAMINER" AND "JOURNAL" John Muir Wiff Describe the Mountain Passes and the (tote of the Yukon Country. JOHN JAUIR, THE EMINENT SCIENTIST. DIRECT WIRES

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Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To [John Muir], 1897 Aug 17., Louie Strentzel Muir Aug 1897

Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To [John Muir], 1897 Aug 17., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California,
August 17, 1897.

My dear husband:

We have just received your telegram from Victoria and have also read in the Examiner that you are to sail on the Queen next Sunday, so we are all writing hurried letters to you hoping they will go on the steamer Walla Walla in the morning. I inclose Mr. Johnson's letter, so you may see how much work you have before you. The ladies of the Century Club, San Francisco, are again very anxious to have you lecture for them September 8. I answered that you would probably be up North at …

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Letter From John Muir To The Examiner, 1897 Aug 17., John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To The Examiner, 1897 Aug 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18,1897

HE WILL WRITE FOR "THE EXAMINER" AND "JOURNAL."

John Muir Will Describe the Mountain Passes and the Climate of the Yukon Country.

JOHN MUIR, THE EMINENT SCIENTIST.
DIRECT WIRES
PROMPT SERVICE
[illegible]Received at San Francisco, Cal.
August 17,1897.

To "The Examiner," San Francisco.
VICTORIA (B.C.), August 17.
I Will be pleased, if my many engagements will permit me, to give " The Examiner" and the New York " Journal" letters describing chiefly the passes over to the Yokon basin, with hints about climate.

13 Ch Pt, 10:35 p.m.

JOHN MUIR

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Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], [Ca. 1897 Aug 16]., John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], [Ca. 1897 Aug 16]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[14 Aug 1897?]
Union Club,
Victoria, B.C.

My dear Wanda and Helen:
I have just been writing to Mamma and must write a little love letter to my dear babies. I sent you a box of lovely Paton hemlock cones and a spray of larch last Sunday from Vancouver.
The hemlock is what we used to call "Williamson Spruce." I got the cones near the largest of the Canada glaciers in the Selkirk Mountains in a flowery, rocky, boggy, ferny forest, and the larch or tamarack I found on the shore of Lake Agnes in the Rocky Mountains, on the …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1897 Aug 16., John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1897 Aug 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Union Club.
Victoria, B. C.

[illegible]

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Union Club,
Victoria, B.C.
Aug. 16, 1897

Dear Louie -

We expected to sail for Alaska tomorrow but nave been so delayed by the crowds or Endeavorers on the trains and other contrary events we have been compelled to wait for the Queen wh[which] sails on the 22d, which will be better anyhow I guess. Perhaps less crowded and certainly have better accommodations. In the meantime we will prowl about the woods here and in the neighborhood of Port Townsend and Seattle. We stayed a day at Laggan, a day and a half …

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Letter From Laura Lyon White To [Loui Strentzel] Muir, [1897] Aug 15., Laura Lyon White Aug 1897

Letter From Laura Lyon White To [Loui Strentzel] Muir, [1897] Aug 15., Laura Lyon White

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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And I thank you sincerely for the interest you have taken, and I trust you may finally induce the Professor to appear before our club.

Very Sincerely Yours

Laura Lyon White

[in margin: Lecture]

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1897

Mill Valley Aug. 15th.

My dear Mrs Muir.

Just one word of explanation on the 8th of September we are to have at the Century Club an afternoon given up to "Summer Outings of

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[2]

1897.
One lady is to give us 10 minutes of "Arizona" another the same time to "Alaska". Stil another to the "mountain lakes of California" I conceived …

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Letter From [Louie] Muir To R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson, 1897 Aug 14., Louie Strentzel Muir Aug 1897

Letter From [Louie] Muir To R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson, 1897 Aug 14., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Form No. 168.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGHAPH COMPANY.
INCORPORATED
21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD.
This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting: its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message. Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays in transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1897 Aug 11., John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1897 Aug 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I'm anxious to learn how your mother is. She seemed to be so hopeless & sad when I bade her goodbye. Tell her to be of good cheer Trust in Gods love & fear nothing.

Ever Yours

John Muir

[1]

[letterhead]

Aug. 11, 1897

Dear Louie.

I arrived here at daybreak this morning The train was delayed by rush of travel etc. & what with want of sleep & continual talking I fell rather tired. We have just returned from a delightful ride & walk from Lake Louise to Lake Agnes though grand woods of spruce & pine & …

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Letter From Geo[Rge] G. Kip To John Muir, 1897 Aug 10., George G. Kip Aug 1897

Letter From Geo[Rge] G. Kip To John Muir, 1897 Aug 10., George G. Kip

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

Augt 10th 1897

My dear Professor Muir,

We returned yesterday from the Yosemite, leaving left one day earlier as we found we could do so by early rising and long stageing. We took the Eagle Point Trail one day and the Glacier Point Trail the next day and did the drive in the valley on the afternoon of our arrival so we have done very well for the time we had to spare. The Yosemite is certainly very grand; El Capitan and the Half Dome are superb. The falls are beautiful, the Bridal Veil being the most delicate …

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Letter From Nellie M. Gleason To John Muir, 1897 Aug 9., Nellie M. Gleason Aug 1897

Letter From Nellie M. Gleason To John Muir, 1897 Aug 9., Nellie M. Gleason

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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for your accommodation and wait for a suggestion from you as to terms.
The date we would leave to you, but preferably some Friday evening September.

Sincerely Yours,

Nellie M. Gleason

Pres. S.K.F.

Mrs. R. P. Gleason

August ninth

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Albany Hotel

Oakland

Mr John Muir.

Martinez, Cal.

Dear Sir.

The Star King Fraternity of Oakland, a literary society composed of men and women who meet for study and instruction, is much interested in the subject of mountain climbing, and hope to have one or two evenings devoted to the subject that will be in the nature of round-table …

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Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1897 Aug 7., Wanda Muir Aug 1897

Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1897 Aug 7., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Well send you a letter from Mr Johnson, the Century want you to write a lot of articles for them instead of giving them to the Atlantic.
Write as often as you can and let us know what you are doing.
I will write again in a day or two.

Affectionately your daughter

Wanda Muir.

[1]

Martinez Calif.

Aug. 7 1897

Dear Papa

I suppose you reached Bamph yesterday and are enjoying yourself in a cooler climate than we have down here today, I hope. Helen has a light attack of the Whooping Cough but except when the coughing …

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Letter From Frederic E. Magee To John Muir, 1897 Aug 7., Frederic E. Magee Aug 1897

Letter From Frederic E. Magee To John Muir, 1897 Aug 7., Frederic E. Magee

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Aug 7/97

Dear Dr Muir:

My father sent the enclosed manuscript to me to have it copied & sent to you. He says you have often asked him to write on this subject, but that he has never had a chance until now to do so. My father intends to send the article after you have kindly revised it to Harper's Weekly unless you advise otherwise. Will you please read it over and make what corrections you think

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advisable & return the article to me.
The last word we heard from my father was from Astoria from whence …

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Letter From John Muir To [George G.] Kip, 1897 Aug 5., John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To [George G.] Kip, 1897 Aug 5., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Aug 5th 1897.

Bancroft Library

My dear Mr. Kip,

I did not meet you on the 3d because I was lame with a slight abrasion on ankle. My sister was not feeling well enough for the trip & had to give it up. Much to her sorrow I start for Banff on the Rockies tomorrow to study some spruces thereabouts & perhaps may go with Prof. Sargent to Alaska for another look at some of the trees there. How glad I would have been to be free to go with you to my old Yosemite home. It is now …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Aug 3., John Muir Aug 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Aug 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

the trees he speaks of are the big spruce 2.2 miles south of Port Townsend State of Wash. I remember a fallen tree at [Quillcene?] 425 feet in length, 350 ft to first limb, all were destroyed before he reached there

Martinez, Aug. 3/97

My dear Mr Lukens.

I thank you for the directions to the giant trees. It will go hard with me if I dont see them. I leave tomorrow or next day & look forward to a better trip than this which I hope to make with you ere long.

With best wishes to all

& love …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] J[Ohnson] To John Muir, 1897 Aug 3., Robert Underwood Johnson Aug 1897

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] J[Ohnson] To John Muir, 1897 Aug 3., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

1897

Aug.

3.

Dear Muir:

Here is a proposition form the Century Magazine of New York. It is that you should write for it a group of short articles _ say a page or two in length each on the curious or wonderful things you have seen or experienced in your exploration calling them "Notes of an Explorer" or something better & printing several at once. In this you could describe that wonderful aurora in

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Alaska, the adventure on the glacier when the buzzards were looking for you, the Salmon Stories and lots of serious and …

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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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