Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Strentzel [Family]
Transcription
00800
[ Genoa?] Nevada. July 6th 1878.
Dear Strentzels,
We rode our horses from Sacramento to this little village [ near?] Placerville & Lake Tahoe. The plains & foothills were terribly hot, the Upper Sierra along the South fork of the American River cool & picturesque, & the Lake region almost cold. Spent three delightful days at the lake – steamed around it, & visited Cascade lake a mile beyond the western shore of Tahoe. We are now making up our train [ roads?] to push off into the great Basin. Am well mounted, & with the fine brave old garden desert before me, fear no ill. We will probably reach Austin, Nevada. in about a month. Write to me there, Care Captn A. F. Rodgers. Your fruity hollow wears a most beautiful & benignant aspect from this alkaline standpoint, & so does the memory of your extravagant kindness.
Location
Genoa, Nevada
Date Original
1878 Jul 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24.5 x 19.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Strentzel [Family], 1878 Jul 6." (1878). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 430.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/430
Resource Identifier
muir03_0849-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0848
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
