Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Mar 27.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images
or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Date:
1899 Mar 27
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0714-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, March 27, 1899 My dear Johnson We have won the fight against forest enemies The Sheepmen are nowhere, I'll send
you a copy of Hermanns reply to a telegram Olney I sent him. Ive spent most of the winter on forest protection at least Ive
done little besides writing about it. For the first time we are to have a lot of guards in the Sierra Reservation with orders
to keep out sheep etc two troops of Cavalry have been ordered to the National Parks as usual inspite of the miserable Manilla
war. If only a few soldiers were mixed with the civil guards I think sheepdays would be over in California forests. Public
opinion on our side is certainly growing becoming more active-while thieves are less hopeful-getting the resolutions under
Civil service rules will be a grand gain. I have just been writing to Gilder about the biography business. I have not done
a thing as far as actual work on it- it still seems far off. I have not much that is striking to tell in my smooth happy wild
life excepting what I have seen since nobody would walk with me it must be hard to make my studies readable to most book people.1
Still I may try it sometime after this forest stuff is off my hands Then I have a Yosemite book to write for you a glacial
Article. I would like to write the Rainier Park as you suggest in your letter but I cant promise just now I must try to get
a lot of half done work finished. Ever yours John Muir 1JM holograph note insterted later at this point Twice I tryed
to coax friends into a fine Canon both balked because forsooth a stone bush were in the way. 10025