Mormon Lilies. Liliaceous Wonder-A Mountain Covered with Flowers Gorgeous Lily Gardens-A Sublime Scene-The Queen of All. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Salt Lake, July, 1877.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

069

Original Date

7-19-1877

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

""Lilies are rare in Utah ... chiefly on account of the fiery saltness of the soil and climate."" On a trek to the Oquirrh range, however, Muir found a profusion of lilies, a ""whole mountain side aglow with them"" He later comments, ""Liliaceous women and girls are rare among Mormons .... But down in the Sun Pitch Valley at Gunnison I discovered a genuine lily happily named Lily Young. She is a granddaughter of Brigham Young, slender and graceful, with lily-white cheeks, tinted with clear rose."" He concludes that in his memories of U tab ""with its golden lilies, will ever rise in clear relief, and associated with them will always be Lily Young, the prettiest lily lass in Utah.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, July 19, 1877

Page/Column

p. 4, cols. 1-2

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 69A, no. 341, v. 8, pp. 126-[135]; no. 350, pp. 126-[135].

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Mormon Lilies. Liliaceous Wonder-A Mountain Covered with Flowers Gorgeous Lily Gardens-A Sublime Scene-The Queen of All. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Salt Lake, July, 1877." (1877). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 53.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/53