University of the Pacific Scholarly Commons John Muir Newsletters John Muir Papers Spring 4-1-2015 The ohnJ Muir Newsletter, Spring 2015 The ohnJ Muir Center Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmn Part of the American Studies Commons, Natural Resources and Conservation Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation The oJ hn Muir Center, "The oJ hn Muir Newsletter, Spring 2015" (2015). John Muir Newsletters. 97. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmn/97 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the John Muir Papers at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in John Muir Newsletters by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SPRING 2015 T H E J 0 H N M U I R CENTER Reflections on John Muir One-hundred years after his death Bill Swagerty, Co-Director, John Muir Center uring 20~~, many in~titutions honored which promotes tourism and environmental edu D John Mmr s legacy w1th an event associ cation along the John Muir Highway. The Jeffery ated with the centennial of his death on De dates to 1851 and was a stagecoach stop for Yo cember 24, 1914. It was also the fiftieth anni semite-bound passengers, as well as a resting versary of passage of the Wilderness Act by place and reprovisioning opportunity for pedes Congress in 1964 and the 15Qth anniversary of trians like Muir on his long walk to the Valley. the Yosemite Act, transferring the core of what Bill Jeffery, husband to Pacific's Pamela Eibeck, would become Yosemite National Park from the explained his family's likely connection with the State of California to the federal government.