Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880.

""This morning one of my good times came after a year's waiting, for then I set out under a happy group of welcoming conditions to explore the long left arm of this icy bay, with everything to bring glacial success."" After fourteen hours of canoe travel, Muir and his compan...

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Published: San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 9, 1880 1880
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glacier
glaciers
Alaska
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spelling ftunivpacific:oai:cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org:p16745coll2/1316 2023-05-15T16:20:38+02:00 Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880. 1880-10-09 http://cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16745coll2/id/1316 unknown San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 9, 1880 See also: no. 333, pp. 213-219; no. 341, v. 3, pp. 259-266 1880 ftunivpacific 2016-07-27T10:19:38Z ""This morning one of my good times came after a year's waiting, for then I set out under a happy group of welcoming conditions to explore the long left arm of this icy bay, with everything to bring glacial success."" After fourteen hours of canoe travel, Muir and his companions arrive at the main glacier, to be greeted ""with a tremendous dash of thunder, raising a fine dust and spray of ice and water to a height of 100 feet."" Later, as they make camp on a ""garden shelf,"" Muir closes his essay, saying, ""How hearty the wave-greeting on the rocks below, sent us by the two glaciers! And how glorious a song the sixteen cascades are singing.!"" Other/Unknown Material glacier glaciers Alaska University of the Pacific: Holt-Atherton Special Collections
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description ""This morning one of my good times came after a year's waiting, for then I set out under a happy group of welcoming conditions to explore the long left arm of this icy bay, with everything to bring glacial success."" After fourteen hours of canoe travel, Muir and his companions arrive at the main glacier, to be greeted ""with a tremendous dash of thunder, raising a fine dust and spray of ice and water to a height of 100 feet."" Later, as they make camp on a ""garden shelf,"" Muir closes his essay, saying, ""How hearty the wave-greeting on the rocks below, sent us by the two glaciers! And how glorious a song the sixteen cascades are singing.!""
title Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880.
spellingShingle Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880.
title_short Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880.
title_full Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880.
title_fullStr Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880.
title_full_unstemmed Alaska Land. An Eventful Day-Revelling Among the Glacial Monarchs. Fountain Source of Ice-Rivers-Wild Goats-Music of the Cascades. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Cascade Camp, Sum Dum Bay, August 29, 1880.
title_sort alaska land. an eventful day-revelling among the glacial monarchs. fountain source of ice-rivers-wild goats-music of the cascades. (special correspondence of the bulletin.) cascade camp, sum dum bay, august 29, 1880.
publisher San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 9, 1880
publishDate 1880
url http://cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16745coll2/id/1316
genre glacier
glaciers
Alaska
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glaciers
Alaska
op_relation See also: no. 333, pp. 213-219; no. 341, v. 3, pp. 259-266
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