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My first summer in the Sierra
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
This 20-page manuscript is the hand-corrected page proofs of John Muir's book My first summer in the Sierra, published in 1991. The proof is incomplete and starts on page 15. With note.
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Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 15 from a draft of chapter 7, page 151: "bronzing the grasses, + ripening the creeping heathworts along the banks of the stream to [a] reddish purple + crimson, while the flowers vanish [disappear], all save the goldenrods + a few daisies that continue to bloom on unscathed until the beginning of snowy winter. In still night the grass panicles" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 122): The North and South Domes • Facing page 6: A Flock of Sheep on the Road. • Facing page 20: California Azalea. [A. occidentalis] • Facing page 26: California Twining Lily. • Facing page 36: Cumulus Clouds in the High Sierra. • Facing page 40: A California Lizard. • Facing page 50: Sugar Pine Cones. • Facing page 58: An Old Indian Woman and Acorn Cache, in the Yosemite Valley. • Facing page 90: Forest near Crane Flat. • Facing page 100: A Glaciated Pavement. • Facing page 110: Junipers above Lake Merced. • Facing page 116: The Half-Dome. • Facing page 130: The North Dome. • Facing page 146: Cathedral Peak. • Facing page 148: Summit of Mt. Hoffman. • Facing page 152: White-bark Pine, appressed. • Facing page 162: Two-leaved Pines. • Facing page 166: Young Silver Firs. • Facing page 182b: The Liberty Cap. • Facing page 198: The Tuolumne Meadows, from Juniper Crest. • Facing page 202: Delaney Meadow. [The meadow where Mr. Muir spent six weeks in the summer of 1869, overseeing sheep-herding. Since named after Mr. Delaney, the owner of the sheep.] • Facing page 214: Bloody Canyon. • Facing page 224: Moraine Lake. [Now called Walker Lake] • Facing page 242: Mammoth Mountain. [Kuna Crest] • Facing page 248: Clumps of Albicaulis Pine on the Slopes of Cathedral Peak. • Facing page 250: Cassiope.
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