Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Strentzel [Family]
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would probably be called a glaciated Monom[illegible] Now it is clear that this fury inland region was icy prior to the lake period. I have also been so fortunate as to settle that [pined?] species we discussed & found [illegible] nest & young of the Alpine sparrow. What do you thank of all this? a” that & a’ that [illegible] The sun heat has been intense What a triangle of noses, Capt’ R’s, Embecks, & mine. Mine sore Embecks sour Caps sorest, scaled & dry as the backs of lizards, & divided into sections all over the surface & burned up on the edges like the surface layers of the desicated sections of adobe flats. On Lone Mountain we were thirsty How we thought of the Cool singing streams of the S[illegible] while our blood fevered & boiled & throbbed. Three of us ascended the mountain against my counsel & re= =monstrances while forty miles from any known water Two of the three nearly lost their lives, I suffered least though I suffered as never before, & was the only one strong enough to ascend a sandy canon to find & fetch the animals after descending the mtn. Then I had to find my two companions. One I found death like crying in the hot sand scarily conscious & unable to speak above a frightful whisper. I managed however to get him on his horse. The other I found in a kind of delirious stupor voiceless in the sage brush. it was a fearfully exciting search & I forgot my own exhaustion in it though I never for a moment lost my will & wits[in margin: or doubted our ability to endure & escapse. We reached water at daybreak of second day - two days & nights in this fire without water. A lesson has been learned that will last][in margin: & we will not suffer so again. Of course we could not eat or sleep all the time, for we could not swallow food, & the [illegible] [prevented?] sleep]
Location
In Camp near Belmont Nevada
Date Original
1878 Aug 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 32 x 20.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0882-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0882
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
