Creator
John Bidwell
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
020825for food. For a large part of the way down the mountain our course lay along the divide, on the north side of the precipitous canon [diacritic] of the Stanislaus, and was generally west. We knew that California must lie to the west, and that was the direction we aimed to travel. With this understanding one morning (about the 20th of Oct., 1841,020826I think it was) I started ahead of the party to try to kill some game, and became separated for 36 hours or more. Near night I was hastening north to intersect the trail of the party going west. It was almost too dark to see a trail, when I came to an enormous fallen tree. I tried to go around the top but it was too brushy. As I passed by the but, which seemed to tower some twenty or more feet above my head, I was obliged to hasten on and find a secluded place to
Location
Chico, Calif.
Date Original
1896-04-20T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir09_0132-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0132
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Page Number
Page 5
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
