John Muir at 74 Back From Quest For Queer Trees. Veteran California Naturalist Climbed Mountains of South America and Africa. Found What He Sought in the Two Continents. 'He is More Wonderful than Thoreau,' Ralph Waldo Emerson Once Said of Him.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1984
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Emerson; Kathleen; Pacific; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/657; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1656/viewcontent/A40.pdf

correspondence can obtain partial microfilm copies via interlibrary loan. This restriction does not apply to those portions of the Muir collection not scheduled for filming. Accessable now are published works, scraps, and manuscript materials dated after 1914. All original papers should be reopened for scholarly use by the spring of 1985. A SECOND MUIR CONFERENCE Plans are well advanced for the second Muir Conference at the University of the Pacific, to be held April 12-13, 1985 in conjunction with the 38th Annual California History Institute. The tentative program includes presentations and papers by more than a dozen Muir scholars, including Millie Stanley (Muir in Wisconsin), Bart O'Brien (The Muir-Whitney Controversy), Paul Sheats (Muir's Gospel of Glaciers), Peter Palmquist (Muir's Wilderness Photo Collection), Richard Fleck (Muir's Homage to Thoreau), Ron Limbaugh (The Nature of Muir's Religion), Kathleen Wadden (Muir and the Community of Nature), Lisa Mighetto (Muir and Animal Rights), Frank Buske (Muir in Alaska), P. J. Ryan (Muir in the South Pacific), Abe Hoffman (Muir and Mono Lake), Linda Moon Stumpff (The Quotable John Muir), Michael Cohen (The Impact of Muir's Philosophy on the Modern Sierra Club), and Fredrick Turner (The Book I Didn't Write: Prospects for Further Muir Biographies). This will be a banner event, so make sure you have early reservations! CLIPPING FROM THE MUIR COLLECTION Editor's note: Muir disembarked at New York in the spring of 1912, having just returned from a ten-month journey, his last great nature excursion. This interview, published in the New York World March 31 and prompted by an unnamed reporter with a thirst for adventure, reflects the restless state of Muir's psyche both during and after the trip. He hurried from place to place like a man driven by deadlines and desparation. More worrisome still was the bookmaking agony that awaited him back home and that prompted the remarks quoted in the last paragraph below. JOHN MUIR AT 74 BACK FROM QUEST FOR QUEER TREES Veteran ...