Letter from John Muir to Louie [Muir], 1899 Jul 3.

Kodiak. July 3, 1899Dear Louie -I sent you a word from Homer, as Katchemak Bay, a branch of Cook Inlet last week when we intended to go on up the main Inlet to the head. But the plans were changed & we sailed across the mouth of the Inlet & down the coast of the Alaska peninsula to Kukak Bay...

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Main Author:	Muir, John
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Language:	English
Published:	Scholarly Commons 1899
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spelling	ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-27232 2023-08-27T04:10:25+02:00 Letter from John Muir to Louie [Muir], 1899 Jul 3. Muir, John 1899-07-03T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/2299 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/27232/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/2299 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/27232/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html John Muir Correspondence John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent mail message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle text 1899 ftunivpacificdc 2023-08-07T21:20:01Z Kodiak. July 3, 1899Dear Louie -I sent you a word from Homer, as Katchemak Bay, a branch of Cook Inlet last week when we intended to go on up the main Inlet to the head. But the plans were changed & we sailed across the mouth of the Inlet & down the coast of the Alaska peninsula to Kukak Bay where at midnight a party of ornithologists & mice catchers were landed with their presses & traps to work a week or so. Thence we sailed to Yuyak Bay on the northwest side of Kodiak Island near the famous Karluk canning station, a charming place [embosomed?] in green hills & mountains where the hunters of big game were sent off to hunt in the interior of the island. bears moose etc. Carrying guns & baggage & plans enough for a [Marsilla?] campaign. Thence we came here by way of the beautiful Northern & Narrow straits to this old Russian town arriving last Saturday afternoon. The weather is delightful & everybody is happy & well. The hills & mountains up to the snow are marvelously flowery & plushy & green Not even the Emerald Isle is so softly richly brilliantly green. The Sitka spruce & Western & Mountain hemlocks form fine forests all along the coast this far, or rather to Cook Inlet. Here less than a fifth of the Coast region is forested & only with02598 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/27232/thumbnail.jpg Text Kodiak Alaska University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Emerald Isle ENVELOPE(-114.104,-114.104,76.803,76.803)
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description	Kodiak. July 3, 1899Dear Louie -I sent you a word from Homer, as Katchemak Bay, a branch of Cook Inlet last week when we intended to go on up the main Inlet to the head. But the plans were changed & we sailed across the mouth of the Inlet & down the coast of the Alaska peninsula to Kukak Bay where at midnight a party of ornithologists & mice catchers were landed with their presses & traps to work a week or so. Thence we sailed to Yuyak Bay on the northwest side of Kodiak Island near the famous Karluk canning station, a charming place [embosomed?] in green hills & mountains where the hunters of big game were sent off to hunt in the interior of the island. bears moose etc. Carrying guns & baggage & plans enough for a [Marsilla?] campaign. Thence we came here by way of the beautiful Northern & Narrow straits to this old Russian town arriving last Saturday afternoon. The weather is delightful & everybody is happy & well. The hills & mountains up to the snow are marvelously flowery & plushy & green Not even the Emerald Isle is so softly richly brilliantly green. The Sitka spruce & Western & Mountain hemlocks form fine forests all along the coast this far, or rather to Cook Inlet. Here less than a fifth of the Coast region is forested & only with02598 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/27232/thumbnail.jpg
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Letter from John Muir to Louie [Muir], 1899 Jul 3.

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