Creator

[George W. Stewart]

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

[letterhead]

Do you expect to visit Kern River Canon [diacritic] this summer with the Sierra Club? If you do, there are two places which you as Ganger of gorges and Inspector of Gulches, should visit. One is the canon [diacritic] running parallel with Kern River and which was once, apparently, the bed of that stream. The other is the canon [diacritic] of the Little Kern, the wildest canon [diacritic] or ch[illegible] I have seen in the mountains. It is about six miles long and no one has passed through it. Both will be near the Sierra Club's permanent camp, that is, within a few miles of it.
By mail to-day I send you copies of Overland Monthly with article on the Poetry of the Polynesians. I got to work on it after my return from the mountains last summer. The

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Location

Visalia, Calif.

Circa Date

[1906]

Source

Original letter dimensions: 27 x 20.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir16_0521-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 16, Image 0521

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

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.

Pages

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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