[Conversation with Charles Kellogg.]

Authors

In Charles Kellogg, The Nature Singer, His Book.

Files

Kimes Entry Number

A29-b

Original Date

1-1-1929

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

Charles Kellogg walked from Sonora via Tuolumne to Yosemite in 1912. Having passed through Hetch Hetchy, upon meeting Muir for the first time he expressed his enthusiasm for the beauty of the valley. Muir responded sadly with deprecating remarks about the vandals that "would drown the valley and blot out all that beauty and the politicians would divide the plunder!" Later Kellogg discussed the dog story he was writing, lamenting his inability to get his dog across the trail and into his tent. Muir's advice was: "Don't be in a hurry, it took me thirty years before I could get Stickeen across that narrow ice bridge." After reading Stickeen, Kellogg concluded that "it was worth thirty years to wait for such a masterpiece."

Publication

Morgan Hill [California]: Pacific Science Press

Page/Column

pp. [201]-202

Location

WFK

Recommended Citation

In Charles Kellogg, The Nature Singer, His Book., "[Conversation with Charles Kellogg.]" (1929). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 637.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/637