Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
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3talking time rambling over all the occurances of these 18 years since last we met - & as I lost some sleep arriving in the middle of the night I have not been feeling very well. I had a hard time in the yellowstone park though I saw so much to interest me. The forests, the parks, the canon, the falls, the lake, the geysers, the hot coral springs. I joined a party of three that I met on the cars & employed a guide & cook to furnish horses tents & do all the camp work etc. The roads & the weather & the food & the cooking were all very rough. In galloping along a smooth piece of ground my horses front feet broke into a hole & he fell head over heels pitching me ahead half a mile or so, whirling me over in somersaults in such a way that I was
Location
Portage City, [Wisc]
Date Original
[1885] Aug 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 41 x 13 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir05_0390-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 05, Image 0390
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
