Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
Louie [Strentzel Muir]
Transcription
[1]
[letterhead]
July 21st 1896
Dear Louie,
We arrived here last evening after a hard ride through dust & the smoke of furning forests from Kootenay Lake on the Columbia & found your telegram & letters from Maggie Helen & Yourself which set my moind more at ease. After leaving Helena wewent to Great Falls on the Missouri by the Great Northern R.R. Thence by a narrow gauge to Shelby Junction on the Great Northern wehre at Midnight we took the train for Belton going to bed at 1 A M. & rising at 4 A.M. to see the Marias Pass in the Rocky Mtns. It was grand with peak streams & forests but O how sleepy we were we arived at Belton at 5.35. AM
02130
[2]
a place in Grand Woods of 3 houses. Here we found Pinchot encamped on the bank of the Flathead River in a bed of Linnaea & Pyrola among grand mountain pines spruces Thyme & Larches. From here we drove 3 miles through those charming woods to McDonald Lake & there at the foot of the lake took a small steamer for the head of it where there is a kind of log hotel. This is one of the most beautiful of all the glacier mountain lakes I have yet seen, more beautiful seom ways even than Tahoe. It is about 10 miles long embosomed in lofty forested mountains with all my favorite norther wood flowers beheath the trees. Next day we rode through the woods
Location
Spokane, Washington
Date Original
1896 Jul 21
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 15 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1896 Jul 21." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 810.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/810
Resource Identifier
muir09_0334-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0334
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
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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
