Steep Trails: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, The Grand Cañon by John Muir (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)

Manuscript specimen

Fragment of page 6 from a draft of chapter 7, pages 145-146 (note: this fragment directly leads from the fragment tipped into volume 4 of this set): "a forest that stretches away indefinitely before you seemingly unbroken by openings of any kind. As soon as you enter the woods, the gray mountain peaks are lost to view. The ground is littered with fallen trunks that lie crossed + recrossed like storm-lodged wheat, + besides the crop of pines, the rich soil composed of outspread moraines, supports a"

Added images

• Facing page (same image as facing 358b): O'Neill's Point, Grand Canyon

• Facing page 26: Mt. Watkins, from Mirror Lake.

• Facing page 28: From the Summit of Cloud's Rest, toward Tissiack (Half Dome).

• Facing page 46: Mt. Shasta.

• Facing page 54: Mt. Lassen in Eruption.

• Facing page 84: Mt. Shasta from the North.

• Facing page 86: Muir's Peak, from Stewart Lake.

• Facing page 118: A Salt Lake Sunset.

• Facing page 128: Avalanche Lily (Erythronium grandiflorum).

• Facing page 136: San Gabriel Valley.

• Facing page 152: Big-Cone Spruces Douglasii macrocarpa).

• Facing page 162: An Artesian Well. [Part of the water supply of the city of Ogden, Utah]

• Facing page 168: Nut Pine (Pinus monophylla).

• Facing page 176: Fox-Tail Pines.

• Facing page 206: A Scene in Puget Sound.

• Facing page 210: Mount Baker.

• Facing page 230: A Giant Western Arbor-Vitae.

• Facing page 258: Snoqualmie Fall.

• Facing page 264: Mt. Rainier, from Cloud Camp.

• Facing page 292: Mt. Hood, Oregon, from Cloud Cap Inn.

• Facing page 330: The Columbia Lakes, source of the Columbia River, in Windermere Valley, B.C.

• Facing page 340: Cape Horn, Columbia River.

• Facing page 344: Crater Lake.

• Facing page 348: The Grand Canyon, - Cliffs at Grand View.

• Facing page 358: Across the Grand Canyon from "Thor's Hammer."

• Facing page 372: A nut Pine on the Rim of the Grand Canyon.