Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
51
This concerns the Sargent Nat Park Commission Muir was not a member but went with them and helped them
[letterhead]
[in margin: Helena Montana, will be our address for two weeks or so-]
July 5 1896
My dear Mr. Johnson
We are fairly off & away into the western woods. Tomorrow we mean to go to Deadwood & from there climb the highest of the Black Hills. The blackness of which is from a covering of yellow pine. My old Sierra friend. This is its eastern limit All the Company- Sargent, Brewer, Geo. Abbott & Hague are good found fellows & I feel a little like myself once more. And here, on the edge of the western woods I turn towards you Wave my hand & bless you for you know what
John Muir
Location
Hot Springs, S.D.
Date Original
1896 Jul 5
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Jul 5 ." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 793.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/793
Resource Identifier
muir09_0280-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0280
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections/fees-and-forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
