Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Strentzel [family]
Transcription
West Walker River Near Wellingtons Station, July 11th 1878 –
Dear Strentzels. We are now fairly free in the sunny basin of the grand old sea that stretched from the Wasatch to the Sierra. There is something perfectly enchanting to me in this young desert with its stranded island ranges. How [in margin: 665] bravely they rejoice in the flooding sunshine endure the heat & [illegible] All goes well in camp. We have ridden our first 200 miles. All the Indians we meet are harmless as Sage bushes though perhaps about as bitter at heart The rim here goes brawling out into the plain after breaking through a range of basaltic lava. In three days we shall be on top of Mt Grant, the highest peak of
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Location
West Walker River
Date Original
1878 Jul 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 12.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Strentzel [family], 1878 Jul 11." (1878). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 431.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/431
Resource Identifier
muir03_0851-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0850
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
