Title:
Letter from John Muir to Strentzel [Family], 1878 Jul 6.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
Strentzel [Family]
Date:
1878 Jul 6
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir03_0849-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 24.5 x 19.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Genoa, Nevada
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
00800 Genoa? Nevada. July 6th 1878. Dear Strentzels, We rode our horses from Sacramento to this little village near?
Placerville Lake Tahoe. The plains foothills were terribly hot, the Upper Sierra along the South fork of the American River
cool picturesque, the Lake region almost cold. Spent three delightful days at the lake steamed around it, visited Cascade
lake a mile beyond the western shore of Tahoe. We are now making up our train roads? to push off into the great Basin. Am
well mounted, with the fine brave old garden desert before me, fear no ill. We will probably reach Austin, Nevada. in about
a month. Write to me there, Care Captn A. F. Rodgers. Your fruity hollow wears a most beautiful benignant aspect from this
alkaline standpoint, so does the memory of your extravagant kindness.