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Kimes Entry Number
031
Original Date
10-24-1874
Publication
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin
Page/Column
p. 1, col. 1
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Salmon Breeding. The Establishment of McCloud River. John Muir, The Naturalist Gives a Graphic Description of What is Being Done. (Special Correspondent of the Bulletin.) U.S. Salmon Breeding Establishment on the McCloud River, Shasta Co." (1874). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 42.
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William and Maymie Kimes Annotation
Muir writes that he has escaped to the mountains from ""300 days of fog and refinement"" while writing his ""Studies in the Sierra."" He traveled to Yosemite and then by way of Mono Lake to the McCloud River, where he discovered a camp of the United States Fish Commission.