Creator
S. Hall Young
Recipient
John Muir
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2again down Mission br. to Eagle. The mountains are the most beautiful treeless & snowless mountains I have ever seen. At one camp, within a radius of a few [weres?] we picked 63 distinct varieties of flowers. I collected over 30 species of butterflies. The mountains of S.E. Alaska are not "is it" with these in flowers & insects. And such pastures! The herds of the U.S. might graze there.I hope you will take a trip across these mountains get botanizing & mountainizing. cant you come to me at Cape Nome the first of July next, ascending the Yukon with me to [illegible] where I am to attend a meeting of the Presbytery of Yukon the fourth Thurs. of July; thence I comtemplate going on up to Eagle 600 miles further, then take a pack train from Eagle across those mountains to headwaters of Copper R. & down it to Baldy, where I think of founding a mission? Thence it is easy to Sitka & down the Coast. What do you say? Shall we have another "high & solemn revel" together? Break away from the luxury of millionair trips to the freedom of roughing it with your old companion.We shot the various rapids of the Yukon in our boat when they were at their highest & fiercest, but we go through safely & enjoyed it. I was touched by the graves at White Horse Rapids of the fevor fellows who have been wrecked & drowned there. Afterwards, one midnight while steering along02615
Location
St. Michaels, Alaska
Date Original
1899-08-31T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0961-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0961
Copyright Status
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Copyright Statement
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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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
