Wanderings in Alaska. A Lovely Sail-Majestic Mountain Views-More Glaciers. Visit to a Deserted Indian Village. Habitations of the Natives-Carved Images and Other Relics-Indian Rites-A Doomed Race. Fort Wrangel, October 12, 1879.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

096

Original Date

11-1-1879

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

Enthralled with the scenery, Muir writes: ""Wherever you chance to be always seems at the moment of all places the best; and you feel that there can be no happiness in this world or in any other for those who may not be happy here."" Upon visiting the deserted village, Muir comments: ""These noble ruins seem to foreshadow too surely the fate of the Stickene [sic] tribe .... Under present conditions their only hope seems to lie in good missionaries and teachers, who will stand between them and the degrading vices of civilization and bestow what good they can.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Nov. 1, 1879

Page/Column

p. 1, col. 4

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 175, v. 1, pp. 208-212; no. 333, pp. 68-[75]; no. 34l,v. 3, pp.86-[94]

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Wanderings in Alaska. A Lovely Sail-Majestic Mountain Views-More Glaciers. Visit to a Deserted Indian Village. Habitations of the Natives-Carved Images and Other Relics-Indian Rites-A Doomed Race. Fort Wrangel, October 12, 1879." (1879). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 185.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/185