John Muir Newsletter, Spring 1991

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spring, 1991 JOHN MUIR MONOGRAPH TO APPEAR The John Muir Center for Regional Studies has completed its work on the papers presented in April, 1990, to the California History Institute on John Muir's life and work. The edited papers are now in the hands of a major publisher. The eventual volume will contain an introduction, fifteen separate essays, and an appendix. The book will be divided into six sections, each of which will focus on a different aspect of Muir's life and work. The sections include one on Muir the individual, another on Muir and religion, and a third on Muir and wilderness. An additional section deals with Muir and literary themes, another on Muir and the physical sciences, and a last section focuses on some of the places associated with Muir or on which he wrote. The volume will be handsomely illustrated. It is hoped that the book will be published within a year. It is sure to be an outstanding volume of great interest to anyone who follows John Muir, his career, or the environment. The Newsletter will keep its readers informed as to official date of availability and price. 1991 CALIFORNIA HISTORY INSTITUTE The Californa History Institute conference on "California' s Gold Rushes: Past and Present,'' held on April 18-21, 1991 was a great success. It featured a dozen different sessions which included over 20 presenters. As last year, the two days of academicsessions were followed by a breakfast meeting of the Jedidiah S. Smith Society, and then a field trip to the Mother Lode and the Northern Mines. The topics covered during the conference included Gold Rush business, finance and technology, interpreting the Gold Rush Experience, Calaveras County Mining in the past and present, the formative years of California's Gold Mining, Gold Rush artifacts, philosophy and literature, and the national context for the California Gold Rush. The John Muir Center plans to publish as many of the conference papers as possible. new series, volume 1 number 2 THE THOREAU SOCIETY JUBILEE JULY 8-19, 1991 To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, The Thoreau Society of Concord, MA, is sponsoring nature walks, tours and outings, poetry readings, lectures, musical events, panel discussions and exhibits in Worcester, MA, July 8- 12, and in Concord, MA, July 11-19. The focus of the Worcester portion of the Society's Jubilee will be Henry David Thoreau as a social critic, engineer, scientist, and connoisseur of music. In Concord, the Jubilee will focus on Thoreau as a nature writer, pioneering ecologist, and conservationist. The Jubilee will be open to the general public. Community members, environmentalists, Scholars, Thoreau-enthusiasts, and scientists are welcome to attend one or all of the events. Registration materials and additional information, including details about costs, lodging, and transportation will be available in early May. For further information or to pre-register, contact Jubilee organizers at (508) 369- : 4213. USING THE JOHN MUIR PAPERS AT UOP by Daryl Morrison The John Muir Papers at the Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections of the University of the Pacific Libraries, came to UOP over a period of 20 years from the Muir-Hanna families. Extensive use is made of this magnificent resource that contains approximately 75% of Muir's extant papers. Special Collection librarians are Daryl Morrison, Head of Special Collections Department/ Special Collections Librarian, and Cynthia Stevenson, Manuscript/Archivist Librarian. The Department hours are 8-5 Monday thru Friday. Visiting scholars are advised to call [phone] to confirm hours prior to arrival. Authors of many recent publications have made use of Muir's papers, journals and notebooks, drawings and sketches, personal library, and photograph collection, yet many aspects of Muir's life and thought still await scholarly inquiry. Academic and popular journals and magazines, such as San Diego, Sea Kayaker, MD, Outdoors, Cobblestone, California History, Wisconsin Natural Resources, GEO, Landmarks, Wisconsin Academy Review, National Geographic, and Sierra all have drawn upon the Muir papers in the past few years. Margin: a Quarterly Magazine for Imaginative Writing and Ideas, issue 8, 1990, edited in Scotland by Robin Magowan and Walter Perrie, published a "Special Bird issue" which used John Muir quotes and observations on birds. Books geared to youth such as John Muir: Writer, Naturalist and Guardian of the Wilderness, (Gareth Stevens, 1989) md John Muir by Eden Force (Silver Burdett Press, 1990) a biography in a series for young adult readers called Pioneers in Change ate carrying the'legacy of John Muir to a new generation. Recent publications which made use of the photographs and drawings from the John Muir Papers include Chemistry as Viewed From Bascom 's Hill, by Aaron J. Ihde, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990, an extensive history of the Chemistry Department at the UW- Madison; "Milestones in California History: John Muir andihe California National Parks" by Keith Kennedy, published in California Historical Quarterly, Summer, 1990; and Yosemite: an American Treasure by Ken Brower, a book sold to members of the National Geographic Society. Fresno Metro Museum prepared an exhibit on the Yosemite and King's Canyon National Parks Centennials featuring several Muir photographs. Extensive use of Muir photographs were used for the documentary recently aired on PBS, "The Wilderness Idea.'' This was one of a four part series co-produced by Florentine Films and WGBH, exploring the evolution of American ideas about the Wilderness. During the last few months The Holt-Atherton Department has had contact with Lisa Mighetto in regard to a second printing of her book Muir Among the Animals: The Wildlife Writings of John Muir, Sierra Club Books; Lee Stetson in regard to commercial release of his KQED video presentation in which he impersonates Muir; Jan Izzo of Children's Press for an educational book for 5-8 year old children, John Muir, Man of the Wild Places; Richard Fleck in preparation for a slide presentation at the Denver Museum of Natural History in May on Muir in , Alaska; J. Parker Huber for a slide presentation which he has given to Audubon societies, nature sanctuaries, and environmental non-profit groups; and Hoffman and Heath, .__ who are to publish a grade 4 Social Studies book Exploring Regions Near and Far. Most of the John Muir Papers are available to researchers on microfilm and may be used at the UOP Library and through interlibrary loan. The microform edition of The John Muir Papers, 1858-1957 and the accompanying Guide to the John Muir Papers, 1858-1957, edited by R.H. Limbaugh and K.E. Lewis are available for purchase from Chadwyk -Healey, 1101 Ring Street, Alexandria, VA 11214. A pamphlet entitled The John Muir Collections compiled by Daryl Morrison and Cynthia Stevenson gives a brief overview of the collection. It is available from the Holt-Atherton Special Collections/ k University of the Pacific Libraries/ Stockton, California 95211 for $4.00 including shipping and handling. THANK YOU The staff of the John Muir Center for Regional Studies is gratified at the postive response from readers and subscribers to the Newsletter. We are very appreciative of readers' efforts to supply us with the latest news and announcements. Please keep the information flowing. Your efforts make this Newsletters reality. JOHN MUIR NEWSLETTER. VOL. I, #2 (NEW SERIES) Published quarterly by the John Muir Center for Regional Studies, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211 Editor Center Director Staff Sally M. Miller R.H. Limbaugh This Newsletter is printed on recycled paper. JOHN MUIR AND THE NECESSITY OF COMPROMISE by Gilbert B. Workman, Canada College (Editor's note: a portion of this material was first presented at the Muir Conference in April, 1990) John Muir was much more than an intuitive, metaphysical theorist. He was also a scientist, a student and analyst of physical natures we know from his observations and writings on glaciers and his notebooks on the " flora and fauna of Alaska and the Sierra. He could combine the contemplative and philosophical with the ~ physical, and he assumed the roles of ecologist and environmentalist and, eventually, of propagandist and political campaigner. In these later roles, Muir was able to modify his natural inclinations and preferences for "the pathless way." He was willing to set aside his love of the remote mountain peaks and the sacred groves of Sequoias, and to come, down into the cities and the halls of Congress in order to preserve the source of that, spiritual heritage of things wild. To do this, he was forced to compromise. One can appreciate Muir's complexity, his multi- faceted genius, and his ability to help resolve America's - wilderness ambivalence, to straddle the gap between wilderness as a place for man to conquer and wilderness as a condition of man's spiritual and rational salvation. It is fortunate that we had a man of John Muir's wisdom and ability to compromise who was able to protect as much of America's wilderness inheritance as he possibly could. Muir recognized full well that the presence of man disrupts the national community of the forest, and he also fully understood that man, unfortunately, was firmly involved in the woods, and that waste and destruction were making rapid headway into the nation's diminishing wild areas and forests. He realized, however, that only people, through a changed awareness of wilderness could counter the destructive mentality that was rampant. Only through developing a large constituency who loved the wild places could they be maintained; he believed. This development would require compromise, and some alteration, perhaps, of portions of those wild places. Critics of John Muir sometimes aver that he naively misjudged the extent of such compromise and alteration, and suggest-that Muir should have maintained a stricter 'no compromise' posture.But Muir saw the situation more realistically and he began a quest for a middle way instead of the strictly pathless way. He started to introduce more of the public to the wilderness by helping to found the Sierra Club in 1892 as an organization which would both extol the values of Nature and also take political action across a wide range of conservation issues. By forming an alliance with Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of Century magazine, he reached a national audience, and together he and Johnson were instrumental in creating Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Although these parks were not to be the pristine wilderness preserves he revered, Muir's compromises were the necessary concessions which he believed he had to make if anything were to be saved. Moreover, as he said,"Nothing that we do on the side of justice can be wholly lost.'' ANDREW CARNEGIE ON JOHN MUIR [Editor's note: This undated clipping from the San Francisco Chronicle, ca. 1910, was found in an envelope enscribed in John Muir's hand: "Carnegie on Water supply &.J.M. etc. " Muir and Andrew Carnegie corresponded occasionally and met in person at least once. In 1910 Miiir attended a special dinner in Southern California in Carnegie's honor. From the John Muir Papers, Holt Athertpn Library, University of the Pacific, Series VI, Related Articles and Scraps] 7 Andrew Carnegie has long ago come to be regarded as a traitor to the camp of "the interests." Although in a sense one of them, he is not with them, at least in sentiment, and is often quite annoying to.his old associates because of his habit of clear thinking expressed in plain speech. He has said some distressing things about certain forms of tariff robbery of which he had intimate personal experience, and .he has come to be regarded as a heretic whom the American Protective Tariff league would rejoice to burn at the stake. Mr. Carnegie delivers a shrewd sidewinder directed at his sentimental fellow countryman, John Muir, who has : got off wrong on the Hetch Hetchy question. Says Mr. Carnegie: John Muir is a fine Scotchman, like my friend John Burroughs; but for all that it is too foolish to say that the imperative needs of a city to a full and pure water supply should be thwarted for the sake of a few trees or for scenery, no matter how beautiful it might be. The Tweed ring in New York was corrupt, there is no question of that, but it was composed of men with broad views on some things, and they prepared for the future of New York. Now New York has a magnificent water supply, a young sea, up in the hills, which can supply a population of 10,000,000 people with all the water that they can use. New York also has a fine system of wharves, which will be a splendid investment to the community. The parks of the city are exceptionally fine. Doubtless Mr. Carnegie's common sense view of the matter will prevail when it comes up for settlement. It is not pressing, as the city must first exhaust the lake Eleanor possibilities^ [Secretary of the Interior] Ballinger's adjudication will settle nothing one way or the other, but when the time- comes that the bay cities can demonstrate that there is real need of the Hetch Hetchy supply neither Congress nor the administration will refuse the grant. ENVIRONMENTAL PRESIDENT COOLS HIS HEELS by Char Miller (Editor's note: excerpted by permission of In These Times, 2/6-12/91) ■. Manuel Lujan, whose performance as Secretary of Interior has been uninspired, won't be departing anytime soon. Why? Many commentators claim that President Bush is comfortable with Lujan's inactivity because the president is not serious about the environment. But there's more to it than that. Were Bush to have an aggressive secretary of the interior, he or she would challenge one of Bush's cherished self-delusions—that he is really a committed and engaged conservationist. Sound odd? It does until you consider who Bush has embraced as his presidential role model—Theodore Roosevelt. "I'm an Oyster Bay kind of guy." Bush has confessed, referring to his hero's Long Island hometown, And it is to the 26th president that Bush has turned to pump up his sagging image on environmental matters, happily affirming that he is a "T-R. conservationist." Bully for George. This affirmation is not as goofy as it might first appear. Both men are identified with their love of vigorous athletics and the great outdoors. So what if zooming across choppy Maine waters in a "cigarette" powerboat doesn't quite strike a Rooseveltian pose. Bush is merely indulging in the politics of image-building, something Teddy well understood. He knew the political benefits that derived from his Rough Rider image. Besides, conservation is good politics, maybe even good Republican politics. By hooking his wagon to Roosevelt's star, Bush hopes to challenge the Democratic Party's apparent lock on the environmental agenda. As Bush has observed, not only was Teddy a Republican but so were most of the leading conservationists of his day, includinghis key advisers, George Bird Grinnell, editor of Forest and Stream; and Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the U.S. Forest Service. Even California naturalist John Muir, long-time president of the Sierra Club, voted for the GOP. George Bush should feel right at home with these heroes of an earlier age. - That is part of the problem, of course. In allying himself with Progressive Era conservationists, Bush is. demonstrating how dated his environmental perspectives are. The reputations of Roosevelt and Pinchot, for( example, were built on their intense efforts to mediate between development and conservation. Since then, the effectiveness of their strategy has been challenged, a consequence of the deleterious effects of continued resource exploitation. The one figure who is accorded great respect today—John Muir~is hardly cut from the same cloth as Bush. Muir's enraptured embrace of the divinity within nature, his provocative call for the adoption of wilderness values, smacks too much of tree-hugging for our pinstrip- ped president. These earlier conservationists are poor models for Bush in other ways as well. Indeed, one need only examine the Roosevelt administration's environmental record to understand why Bush should have thought twice before choosing T.R.-as his mentor and guide, a choice that reveals clear differences both in terms of their ap- proach to conservation and to the presidency. Simply put, Roosevelt's accomplishments in conservation are staggering. Among other things, he doubled the number of national parks, from 5 to 10, created the first National Monuments (setting aside 18 spectacular settings altogether) and established 51 bird sanctuaries to protect nesting and feeding grounds. Both animals and tourists owe much to Roosevelt's initiatives. None of these actions came without a fight. Western developmental interests challenged his every move. Roosevelt's administration was nonetheless so aggressive in its pursuit of conservation—an aggressiveness particularly associated with forester Pinchot—that its opponents coined the new epithet "Pinchotism" to describe governmental regulation of land use. For Republicans, the Progressive Era was a shining moment in conservation history. But it is not likely that any of Roosevelt's luminescence will rub off on Bush± Roosevelt and his advisers thought in grand terms, mapped out their strategy and then moved decisively, establishing precedent for an engaged and activist presidency. Bush talks but does not act. x . Take the case of the White House Conference on Global Warming last April. Bush hoped to use it as a platform from which to make plain his commitment to the environment, to take the lead on an issue of great consequence. But rather than propose stronger legislation designed to cut emissions, specifically carbon dioxide, Bush pleaded for more time and greater research into the problem, a cautious approach that sabotaged his public- relations ploy. Such caution also characterized his response to debates over off-shore drilling—he delayed action until after the year 2000~and over clean-air legislation. As for the latter, he offered up strong words of support for a, rigorous congressional bill, but he did not provide the leadership necessary to make good on his verbal commitment. Ultimately, it was Congress that acted': Roosevelt had no sympathy for such an approach: "Words without action," he once wrote, are but "intellectual debauchery." To avoid having that damning label stuck on him, to begin living up to Roosevelt's standard, Bush would have to pursue a more audacious environmental policy. And there's no better way to begin fitting words to action than to fire his current Secretary of the Interior. A MUIR LETTER introduced by Bruce Merrell While working as a reference librarian at the public library in Anchorage, Alaska last year, I was approached by a young woman. She was visiting Alaska for the first time, said that a distant relative had lived in Alaska many years ago, and wondered if the library had any information about him. The relative's name was Samuel Hall Young. Recognizing the name immediately, I showed her autographed copies of Young 'sfour books about Alaska and located several Of his letters to John Muir. in our microfilm copy of the Muir Papers. I went on to explain my own interest in Muir and asked if she or anyone in her family had anything belonging to Young. ' 'Oh, yes,'' she said. ' 'I have his knapsack and snowshoesl'' Did she know if anyone had saved old letters or photographs? ' 'Well, if anyone has anything, it would be Aunt Marg.'' I wrote Aunt Marg in Georgia and was delighted to receive a speedy reply. "I'm not always this prompt on answering correspondence," she wrote, "but I have recently been going through some old letters in doing genealogical research of my grandmother, Fannie Kellogg Young, and her family. Most of the letters I have are from my grandfather to my grandmother but among them I found a letter from John Muir to Grandpa . . . I am enclosing a copy. You notice that the signature is missing. I expect that Grandpa cut it out to give to a grandchild. He was that sort of person. I'm sure it was not to sell. However/ the letter is obviously from John Muir. '" S. Young Hall was the author of Alaska Days with John Muir, published the year after Muir's death. Young was a Presbyterian missionary, nine years Muir's junior, whom Muir met in 1879 while making his first trip ' to Alaska. He and Young shared many adventures that year and the next—climbing mountains, scrambling over glaciers, travelling for weeks on end by native dugout canoe, and discovering Glacier Bay. Young was also the owner of Stickeen, the truculent mongrel who was the subject of Muir's best-selling book. J This is evidently the only surviving letter from Muir to Young. Many others were received by Young, but according to his autobiography, were lost when the steamboat Leah sank below Kaltag on the Yukon River in 1906. Young's library of fifteen hundred volumes arid all his personal papers were reduced tod. 'muddy pulp.' '2 The following letter was written when, at Young's instigation, the two old friends had renewed their correspondence after a long hiatus: Los Angeles, Cal., May 31, 1910. Dear friend Young:- I wrote to you the other day, briefly telling you : that I had read your manuscript and forwarded it with your letter to the publishers, with a note from myself to the Century Company giving your address, and no doubt you will hear from it ere long. I soon learned that you would be able to write some good books if ever you had the opportunity, and since we voyaged together through that glorious archipelago how much your knowledge of Alaska has been increased by those long years on the shores of the Behring Sea and far north on the head of the McKenzie, and among the mines and miners of the interior. I am glad therefore that you contemplate resigning your position as missionary and devoting your rich ripe years to literature: After you fell on that mountain you evidently lost track of your way. In ascending the mountain you never touched the glacier or were near it. All the way was on the main ridge of the spur. Only after you fell and I had slid you down on your back to the glacier did you touch a glacier, but such mistakes do not interfere with the main truthful effect of the adventure. Did you see George Wharton James [sic] article in The Craftsman, published in Syracuse, N.Y.? Evidently he had heard your lecture, and his account is a wretched caricature-of the whole adventure. Although I never intended taking any notice in my writings of this adventure, after reading James' account I made up my mind to tell the story as it really was, and have written it but have not published it. When published, if published at all, it will simply be as a little story of adventure-toldamong other adventures and will no£ interfere with your account. The photographs for illustrating I have not yet seen, since undoubtedly they are held at Martinez, but I will give them immediate attention as soon as I return to Martinez, and add what I can of my own which will be in a few days.3 I spent about two weeks in Prince William Sound in 1899 on the Harriman Expedition and had a glorious time there visiting all the fiords with their many glaciers, some twelve of the first class, which flow into the sea. As you say, the scenery of that Sound is wonderfully beautiful. I feel pretty sure that you should change the name of the book which you say you will call the ' 'Mushing Parson." "Mushing" is slang, even in Alaska, and parsons should be better described no matter how they travel. I am sure that it would be a very bad title. Noth- ing of that catchy character should ever be attached to a sound hard work of real literature. It is delightful to know that you and Mrs. Young are feeling true to your name, growing younger with the ripening years, and that all your children and grandchildren are thriving and hopeful. Yes, my wife has gone to the better land. My two children, Wanda and Helen, are married. Wanda has two fine boys. Helen was married a year ago, after a long fight for health on the plateaus and deserts of California and Arizona. She is now quite well. When I am at home I am entirely alone. Not a soul in the large house on the hill, which perhaps you saw while yon visited us at the time we were living in the cottage a mile further up the valley. I have always said that I would not bother writing books until I was too old to climb mountains, but I have been at work lately. I suppose you have seen The Mountains of California, Our National Parks, and Stickeen. Stickeen was brought out in book form by, Houghton Mifflin Company last year and seems to be a great favorite. I suppose you have a copy. If not, let me know and I will send you one. About a month ago I sent another book to the publishers called My First Summer in the Sierra., I have another nearly ready to send; [sic] a young folk's-book of animal stories. I am also at work on an autobiography which will probably not be published for several years, as it promises to have no end. I hope to work this summer also on a book about Yosemite Valley and other Yosemites, a sort of travelers' handbook, which ought to have been written long ago. I also propose writing a book on Alaska, but that will not be before another year or so. The fact is that I have hardly commenced to draw upon my many note books and the results of my scientific studies have scarcely been touched as yet. Like yourself I still feel young, although I cannot climb mountains quite so fast as I could years ago. I should be delighted to see you on your way to the east or on your return. My permanent address will be Martinez, and even if I should be away letters will be forwarded or held at the office until I return. With kindest regards to Mrs. Young, and all good luck wishes for your success in literature I am, [signature cut out] [P.S.:] The last 2 years of my life have been spent mostly in defense of the Yosemite National Park. To Rev. S. Hall Young, Cordova, Alaska S. Hall Young bristled at Muir's suggestion that he abandon the term ''mushingperson. " ".I have consulted my most literary Alaska friends and some in the East," he wrote Muir In his next letter, "and all are taken with the title. In fact, there is no other word used up here to express the same idea. "4 Eighty years later, Young's family continues to bristle. His granddaughter recently wrote that her cousin, who was bOm in Alaska, was ". quite scornful of John Muir's objecting to Grandpa's use of the word "mushing. "5 . N S, Hall Young had the final word on the subject. Whenhis autobiography appeared in 1927 it carried the title Hall Young of Alaska: The Mushing Parson. 'Margaret S._ Hughes to Bruce Merrell, September 19, 1989. 2S. Hall Young, Hall Young of Alaska: The Mushing Parson (New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1927), p. . _ 413. 3Muir refers to his rescue of Young on Glenora Peak, up the Stikine River out of Wrangell in 1879. This famous event is described in Young's Alaska Days with John Muir, pp. 37-56. George Wharton James' account is found in "An Act of Heroism," The Craftsman (vol. 7, no. 6), March 1905, pp. 665-667. Muir's version is found in Travels in Alaska, pp.30-55. For a discussion of the Muir-Young relationship in general and the accounts of this rescue in particular, see Herbert F. Smith, John Muir (New Haven: College & University Press, 1965), Twayne United States Authors Series, pp. 106-07 and 150. 4S. Hall Young to John Muir, June 14, 1910 (JMP Series I A, #04794). sMargaret S. Hughes to Bruce Merrell, March 23, 1990. NATURE WRITING ISSUE TO APPEAR A special issue of North Dakota Quarterly on nature writing will be published this spring. It is edited by Sherman Paul and Donald Scheese, and contains twenty articles on individual nature writers, including one on John Muir. MUIR'S BULLETIN OF BIBLIOGRAPHY Is there any interest in an update of the 1978 Bulletin of Bibliography entry so that more recent articles on John Muir can be referenced? We have received this suggestion and would like to know if readers are interested in this matter. NEW LEGAL REFERENCE TO JOHN MUIR DAY by Harold W, Wood, Jr. A new legal reference should be used by educators who seek to promote "John Muir Day" activities in their local school or educational institution. "John Muir Day," April 21, is officially recognized by law in California. The Legislature has, however, effective January 1, 1991,. re-numbered the Education Code provision establishing it as a day of special significance, so the correct citation now is Education Code § 37222, subdivisions (a)(2) and (b)(2). "John Muir E>ay" was established originally by the California Legislature in 1988 as a California Commemorative Holiday to be annually proclaimed by the Governor on each April 21. An 1989 law also established John Muir Day, April 21, as^ day for public schools and educational institutions to hold exercises commemorating John Muir and his importance in conservation. The Education Code provision provides that all public schools and educational institutions are encouraged to hold suitable exercises on April 21 "that stress the importance that an ecologically sound natural environment plays in the quality of life for all of us, and to emphasize John Muir's significant contributions to the fostering of that awareness and the indelible mark he left on the State of California." "John Muir Day" has now been combined with two other days of special significance ("Day of the Teacher" and "California Poppy Day"), as subdivision (a)(2) and (b)(2) of Education Code § 37222. The new law makes it clear that it is the intent of the Legislature that the exercises encouraged by the law ' 'be integrated into the regular school program, and be conducted by the school or institution within the amount otherwise budgeted for educational programs." Educators and others involved in public schools and institutions of higher education should be encouraged to help implement the law by ensuring that "John Muir Day" is recognized on each April 21 a day of special significance oh their campus. ORIGINAL PORTRAIT OF MUIR NOW AVAILABLE The Wowona Press, a small press which publishes materials on the environment and state and national parks and monuments, has available a newly-commissioned portrait of John Muir in commemoration of the Yosemite Centennial. This John Muir Print by artist Art Smith is limited to 1200 impressions. It is in color, 19' by 12' and is available in both signed and unsigned formats. 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