Title:
Letter from Wanda [Muir] to [Louie Strentzel Muir], [1905 May].
Creator:
Wanda [Muir]
Publisher:
Muir/Hanna Family. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use
them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Louie Strentzel Muir]
Date:
[1905 May]
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir15_0500-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Nevada
Rights:
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Transcription:
Somewhere in Nevada Saturday Morning May, 1905 Dear Mama: We got started safely last night and are having just the very
best possible time. The weather is perfect and as there are only two other people in the car besides us four, we have lots
of room, and everything just our own way. We have been enjoying the most beautiful views all morning. I hadn;t the least idea
that we would see so much really truly mountain country. When I woke up this morning we were still in the snow sheds and the
car was stuffy and headachy. I couldn't see much, but as soon as I got the window open (much to the porter and conductor's
horror), I knew that we were in the mountains for the air had a delicious, snowy snap about it that I never felt anywhere
else. I forgot all about the stuffiness in my head and have been in a constant state of healthy rejoicing ever since even
though we are down in the sagebrush country now. I didn't expect the trip to be so much fun, but its perfectly fine. There
was lots of snow around Truckee and that and the sight of the blue mountains gave me a hard attack of mountain craze, just
when I thought I was going to be intently civilized. We opened all the windows and enjoyed ourselves tremendously, but the
conductor still thinks we are considerably crazy because we prefer wind off the snow to Pullman car bad air. Maybe we are
queer, but we are having a much better time than the lady in the drawing room section who is afraid of drafts, wears diamonds
and says in regard to things in general ''that it's such a bore, don't you know.'' It;s time for lunch now so I'll stop and
write again tomorrow. Lovingly, Wanda 01470