John Muir letters available online

[SkierBob]

http://www.sacbee.com/latest/story/2332939.html
link to archives ->http://library.pacific.edu/ha/digital/

A trove of some 6,500 letters to and from renowned California conservationist John Muir is now available on the Internet.

The University of the Pacific in Stockton, where the letters are housed, announced the new online access today in cooperation with UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library. The project was funded with a $111,181 grant from the California State Library.

"John Muir's correspondence offers a unique first-hand perspective on his thoughts and experiences," Shan Sutton, associate dean and head of special collections at Pacific, said in a statement.

The archive of correspondence includes full-text transcriptions that can be viewed alongside images of the original Muir letters. Many of the letters involve discussions between Muir - considered a founder of the American environmental and parks movement - and other leading figures of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The archive joins other Muir material held by Pacific, previously made available online, including drawings, journals and photographs.

[K9luvr]

When I worked on the Groveland Ranger District of the Stanislaus NF, it was great fun to read, "my summer in the sierra" and walk along a lot of the areas that he did on that trip.  It was so different than he described, yet many things were just the same.  Logging, fire suppression, catastrophic wildfire had made things different but you could still tell a lot of places by the descriptions.