A New Yosemite. Glorious Scenery, Magnificent Forests and Lovely Waterfalls. A Fine Piece of Descriptive Writing.

A New Yosemite. Glorious Scenery, Magnificent Forests and Lovely Waterfalls. A Fine Piece of Descriptive Writing.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

054A

Original Date

11-29-1875

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

This abridged reprint of no. 47 is prefaced with the statement: ""Mention was recently made in the Journal of Mr. John Muir, formerly a resident of this city but now of California, where he has acquired considerable distinction as a naturalist and geologist. The following extracts are from a letter of his published in the San Francisco Bulletin, descriptive of a:new Yosemite valley, on King's river, recently explored by him."" Muir went to Indianapolis in 1866 and was employed by Osgood, Smith & Co., where in 1867 an accident injured his eye.

Publication

The Indianapolis Journal

Page/Column

p. 3, cols. 3-4. [Scrapbook II, p. 73.]

Reprint/Offprint

Reprint no. 47 (abridged)

A New Yosemite. Glorious Scenery, Magnificent Forests and Lovely Waterfalls. A Fine Piece of Descriptive Writing.

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