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John of the mountains : the unpublished journals of John Muir
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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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Manuscript specimen Fragment, with extensive corrections in pencil, from a draft of chapter 7, page 145 (note: this fragment directly leads to the fragment tipped into volume 8 of this set): "one of the loveliest glacier meadows I ever enjoyed, lies hidden in an extensive forest of Twoleafed Pine, in the basin of the ancient Tuolumne Mer de glace, about ten miles to the west of Mount Dana. Imagine yourself at the Tuolumne Soda Springs on the bank of the river. You set off northward through" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 90): Mono Pass • Facing page 6: A Sierra Canyon. [Kings River Canyon] • Facing page 8: Dwarf Pine (P. albicaulis). • Facing page 24: Mount Rainier. • Facing page 44: A Snow-Bridge over a Stream. • Facing page 52: A Snow-Banner. • Facing page 60: Mount Ritter. • Facing page 76: The Minarets. • Facing page 92: A Portion of the Sierra Range from Owen's Valley, near Independence. • Facing page 98: Red Lake, in Bloody Canyon. • Facing page 104: Lateral Moraines above Moraine Lake. • Facing page 106: Blue Gentians in the Tuolumne Meadows. • Facing page 124: Shadow Lake. [Now called Merced Lake] • Facing page 138: Rocky Islet in an Alpine Lake. • Facing page 140: Rock-Fringe (Epilobium obcordatum). • Facing page 148: A Series of Flowers from Delaney Meadow. • Facing page 156: A Hanging Meadow. • Facing page 170: A Sugar Pine. • Facing page 180: A Young Sugar Pine. • Facing page 188: A Young Incense Cedar. • Facing page 194b: Among the Red Firs. • Facing page 208: A Prostrate Sequoi ("Fallen Monarch"). • Facing page 222: Sheep on a Mountain Slope. • Facing page 228: Junipers. • Facing page 232: Mountain Hemlock, on Piute Mt • Facing page 240: Needle (Fox-Tail) Pines. • Facing page 286: Mossbrae Falls at Shasta Springs.
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Manuscript specimen Fragment from a draft of chapter 7, page 147 (note: this fragment directly leads to the fragment tipped into volume 7 of this set): "+ seems delightfully substantial + familiar. The rosiny pines are types of health, the Robins feeding on the lawn ^sod belong to the same species you have known since childhood, + surely these are the very flowers of the old home garden. Bees hum as in a harvest noon," Added images • Color frontispiece (same as original frontispiece): El Capitan, Yosemite National Park • Facing page 10: Water-Ouzel. • Facing page 34: Wild Sheep. … [photo. By Enos A. Mills] • Facing page 56: A Young California Panther. • Facing page 84: Hemizonia. • Facing page 94: Chamissal Bush (Adenostoma fasciculata). • Facing page 108: A Southern California Bee-Ranch. • Facing page 116: Maidenhair Ferns. • Facing page 128: Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Point. • Facing page 132: Bridal Veil Fall. • Facing page 134: The Cathedral Rocks. • Facing page 136: The Yosemite Fall. • Facing page 154: The Nevada Fall. • Facing page 184: Yellow Pines in Yosemite Valley. • Facing page 190: The South Dome, from the River • Facing page 192: The South Dome in Winter. • Facing page 204b: From the Summit of Fairview Dome. • Facing page 222: Down Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point Trail. • Facing page 224: Looking down on the Nevada Trail. • Facing page 236: The Tuolumne Meadows. • Facing page 242: South from the Summit of Mt. Dana. • Facing page 244: Southeast from the Summit of Mt. Lyell. • Facing page 246: The Big Tuolumne Canyon. • Facing page 268: The Royal Arches. • Facing page 272: "Icy Blades" on the Lyell Glacier. • Facing page 280: Hetch Hetchy Falls.
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, including 22 autograph letters, from 1902 to 1913, from Muir to his daughter, Helen Muir Funk. There is also correspondence with Enos Abijah Mills, J. Marshall Watkins, and the John Muir Association, and photocopies of Muir's Thousand mile journey (FAC 624).
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, including 22 autograph letters, from 1902 to 1913, from Muir to his daughter, Helen Muir Funk. There is also correspondence with Enos Abijah Mills, J. Marshall Watkins, and the John Muir Association, and photocopies of Muir's Thousand mile journey (mssFAC 624).
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