Summering in the Sierra. John Muir Discourses of Sierra Forests, Etc.-The Glorious Solitudes of Nature-Pine Nuts as Food-Tuolumne Meadows-Mono Pass-A Lovely Lake. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Mono Lake, July, 1875.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

046

Original Date

8-3-1875

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

Muir and his friends William Keith, J. B. McChesney, and John Swett were detained by a late snowstorm in their excursion to Tuolumne Meadows; however, the next morning was bright with sunshine and high spirits. Muir rhapsodizes: ""Going to the mountains is going home, and gladly we climbed higher through freshened piney woods .... All the mountain voices-birds, winds, leaping and plashing brooks-were turned to downright gladness. Even our melancholy pack mule seemed to catch a trace of the general joy as he trudged along the winding trail .... "" Muir ends his essay saying, ""Amid these glorious Alps, San Francisco, with its cares and money, became yet more perfectly invisible.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin

Page/Column

p. 1, cols. 2-3

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also no. 505

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Summering in the Sierra. John Muir Discourses of Sierra Forests, Etc.-The Glorious Solitudes of Nature-Pine Nuts as Food-Tuolumne Meadows-Mono Pass-A Lovely Lake. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Mono Lake, July, 1875." (1875). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 28.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/28