Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Helen] & Annie] Wanda
Transcription
[letterhead]
July 6 1896
Hello Midge Hellow Wanda! My!! if you could only come here when I call you, how wonderful you would think this hollow in the rocky Black Hills is. It is wonderful even to me after seeing so many wild mountains, curious rocks rising alone or in clusters, gray & jagged & rounded in the midst of a forest of pines & spruces & poplars & birches, with a little lake in the middle & carpet of meadow gay with flowers. It is in the heart of the famous Black Hills where the Indians & whites quarreled & fought so much. The whites wanted the gold in the rocks, & the Indians wanted the game - the deer & elk that used to abound here. As a grand deer pasture this was said to have been the best in America, & no wonder the Indians wanted to keep it.
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[letterhead]
for wherever the white man goes the game vanishes.
We came here this forenoon from Hot Springs 50 miles by rail & 12 by wagon. And most of the way was through woods fairly carpeted with beautiful flowers. A lovely red lily. Lilium Pennsylvanicum, was common 2 kinds of spiraea and a beautiful wild rose in full bloom. anemones, cala[illegible], larkspur etc etc etc far beyond time to tell. but I must not fail to mention Linneas. How sweet the air is. I would like to stop a long time & have you & Mama with me. What walks we would have!! We leave tonight for Edgemont.
Here is some mica flakes & a bit of spiraea I picked up in a walk with Prof Sargent.
Goodbye my babes. Some time I must bring you here I send love & hope you are well
John Muir
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Location
Custer, S.D.
Date Original
1896 Jul 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Helen] & Annie] Wanda, 1896 Jul 6." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 796.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/796
Resource Identifier
muir09_0288-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0288
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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
