Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Transcription
00673
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glorious. I got back from Whitney this P M. How I shall sleep, my life rose, wave like, with those lofty granite waves now it may wearily flat [in margin: float] for a time along the smooth flowery plains. Love to all my friends Ever cordially yrs John Muir ————
[in margin: It seems that this new Fishermans Pk is causing some stir in the newspapers If I feel writeful I will send you a sketch of the region for the Overland]
[1]
#46. Independence Oct [underlined: 16]th 1873 ———————————
Dear Mrs Carr.
All of my seasons Mountain work is done. I have just come down from Mt Whitney & the newly discovered Mtn five miles N.W. of Whitney, & now our journey is a simple saunter along the base of the range to Tahoe where we will arrive about the end of the month or a few days earlier. I have seen a good deal more of the high Mtn region about the head of Kings & Kern Rivers than I expected to do in so short & so late a time Two weeks ago I left the Doctor & Billie in the Kings River Yosemite & set out for
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Mt Tyndall & adjacent mtns & Canons. I ascended Tyndall & ran down into the Kern R Canon & climbed some name- less mtns between Tyndall & Whitney & thus gained a pretty good general idea of the region After crossing the range by the Kearsage pass I again left the Doc’ & Bill, & pushed southward along the range & W’ward & up Cottonwood Crk to Mt Whitney then over to the Kern Canons again & up to the new “[underlined: highest”] peak wh I did not ascend as their was no one to attend to my horse; Thus you see I have rambled this highest portion of the Sierra pretty thouroughly though hastily I spent a night without fire or food in a very icy wind storm on one of the spires of the
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new highest peak by some called Fishermans Peak That I am already quite recovered from the tremendous exposure proves that I cannot be killed in any such manner on the day previous I climbed two mtns – making over 10,000 ft of altitude. I saw no mtns in all this grand region that appeared at all inaccessible to a mountaineer, give me a summer & a bunch of matches & a sack of meal & I will climb every mtn in the region I have passed through Lone Pine & noted the Yosemite & local subsidences accom- plished by the earthquakes The bunchy bushy composital of Owens Valley is intensely
Location
Independence
Date Original
1873 Oct 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1873 Oct 16." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1541.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1541
Resource Identifier
muir02_1199-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1199
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
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
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. 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
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
