Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood Johnson]
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Martinez, Oct. 1, 1895.My dear Mr. Johnson,I had a long talk the other day with the Vice President of our Sierra Club, Mr Olney, the friend of Irish, on Yosemite affairs, & after I had shown him how faithfully & well the Yosemite National Park was managed,--how sheep & destruction had been fenced out, the natural bloom & beauty called back, & how many visitors were now enjoying it; while the Valley itself, naturally the heart & soul of the park, was the only desolate neglected part of it--a frowsy, dirty, dusty, downtrodden, vular mustang pasture, going with deadly steadiness from bad to worse--he at length said “There is no hope for Yosemite under the management of shifting careless politicians. It must be receded to the federal government & placed under militarily supervision.” Only the monopoly now in possession of the Valley are opposed to the transfer while most everybody else are simply careless. However travel to the park is increasing so rapidly public opinion must grow stronger from year to year for good management. 1 It is becoming less & less [an] attraction. How many would visit Del Monte, Golden Gate Park, Central Park, or any other park in the world if made a dusty unkept flowerless pathless pasture fenced with a maze of barbed wire & turned over to the bad mercies of dollar getters! This state of things has greatly alarmed the monopoly, & I think they would require but little pressure to make them take away their barbed wire fences & keep their horses in stables instead of turning them loose every night provided campers were compelled to feed their animals in00863
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1895-10-01T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir08_1215-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1215
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. 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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
