Creator
M.H. Myrick
Recipient
John Muir
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[letterhead]Jany 31 1895Dear Mr. Muir--Your friends have thought that you knew something about mountains--but, just read the enclosed "Volcanoes are [illegible]!" and just see how much there is yet to learn?! Read it all, carefully, if you can.As to Lassens', I know something about it. I have been there. There is no crater to Lassen--it is a sharp ridge cone. What the writer calls "Bummer's Hell," is not on the peak at all. It is "Bumpass' Hell," named after Bumpass an old mountaineer, who guided me to the place--it is at least three miles from the base of the cone, and is not a crater; but a level surface of about 60 acres, sulphur and steam springs scattered about, and often to the surrounding country.How about Shasta? Is the rim of the crater "such a knife edge that explorers have had to break away the sharp crest to make a place to sleep"?And then, what about the last paragraph! In one night, a mountain thrown up, 25 miles in circumference, 2 miles high, & steam and smoke 17 miles high! and explosions heard 2000 miles!! and
Location
San Francisco, Cal
Date Original
1895-01-31T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir08_0779-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0779
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
