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SPECIAL JOHN MUIR'S POINTS OF CROSSING OF THE CUMBERLAND INTEREST: By Dan Styer John Muir - who records the intertwined feelings of ecstasy Muir encountered Oberlin College, would later ac ("miles and miles of beauty") and of despair ("I mountains for the Oberlin, Ohio quire the nick hardly dare to think of home and friends") fa first time in his life name John miliar to many long-distance solitary wilderness at the age of o'Mountains - encountered mountains for the travelers.6 twenty-nine years. first time in his life at the age of twenty-nine These three days also held superlative en years, on Muir's crossing of ~===-====:--::---==-~==---, counters with nature: On September 10, September Muir "began the ascent of the Cumber- the Cumberland provided some of 10, 11,and land Mountains, the first real mountains the best human 12, 1867, that my foot ever touched or eyes be- stories found in A when he held ... the glorious forest road of Kentucky Thousand Mile crossed the was grandly seen, stretching over hill and Walk to the Gulf Cumberland valley, adjusted to every slope and curve Plateau of by the hands of Nature -the most sub This three-day part Tennessee lime and comprehensive picture that ever of his walk held as part of his entered my eyes."7 Two days later, de superlative encoun thousand scending from the Cumberland Plateau, ters with nature mile walk Muir "Crossed a wide cool stream .. .. from Louis There is nothing more eloquent in Nature ville, Ken (( 'h, '
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JOHN MUIR NEWSLETTER IS BACK AND GOING DIGITAL After a year, we are announcements and you will ing on John Muir and his back! Last year we an receive a PdF version of the legacy, as well as poetry and nounced that we would be Newsletter. Those who do photos of the Sierra and come an "occasional" news not have web access, please other places dear to John letter, projecting two issues send us a short note request Muir's heart. Articles should per year. We only released ing a hard copy of the News be no longer than 2,000 one issue this past year. In letter. We suggest a dona words; but we also seek short an age of high cost of repro tion of $10 per year for those pieces and announcements. duction and mailing we have who would like the older for decided to follow the trail of mat as a hard copy. We are Please submit to: other newsletters by going no longer reminding subscrib W. R. Swagerty digital. Those withe mail can ers of a pending expira- Director, John Muir Center, continue to receive at no tion. We appreciate any and WPC99 Jaiya Ellis, charge the newsletter as part all support of the Cen- University of the Pacific, Sustainability Coordinator for the of a web serve list. Simply e ter. Your donation helps with Stockton CA 95211 University's three campuses, with her mail us at many Center agendas. or bye mail to central office in Muir Center [email protected] and we We continue to welcome [email protected] will include you in our future submissions of articles focus-
"26tft $~ 1869: ·~totfw_ FROM MOUNT HOFFMAN ~4~ By Terry Gifford (My first in weeks of boulder Smiling eerily like cats as they Your 'ramble' up from the seats) creep ~.~ Valley Left outside by the tree-stump Out from their crevices, table ~j'd To spend a night on this bare expecting to be fed. mountain, Amongst the cabins of May Disgusted by these half-tame ~.tfw_~ Lake Camp. A steep ascent of five thou summit pets sand feet, Breathless from the final yoovt u. fife'~ I turn and scree-slide down scramble Left me breathless before I the dusty trail ~'lljj'd turned the page. And the view, looking down on To bathe my legs in the clear Half Dome, ¥uwer And even starting from Snow May Lake. Flat Cloud's Rest, far glaciers and ~ . ''' From: Terry Gifford, Reconnecting I was pleased to pause on a Tenaya Lake, John Muir with John Muir (Athens: The Univer My First Summer real chair I sit quite still and meet the sity of Georgia Press, 2006), p. 131. intheSieffa marmots
J 0 H N MUIR EVENT AT PACIFIC, APRIL 1 3 On April 13, 2011, a spe From 7:30 until 9:15p.m., uled to be broadcast on the cial John Mur event will be film maker Catherine Tatge PBS American Masters series held in the Janet Leigh Thea of Global Village Media will on April18, will be shown ter at University of the Pa give a brief introduction to after Ms. Tatge's introduc cific. From 7:00 to 7:30p.m. her film "John Muir in the tion. photographer Scot Miller will New World ". This is a bio give a presentation on his graphical documentary of the work in the illustration of the extraordinary life of John From 9:15 until 10:00 p.m. 100th anniversary edition of Muir and his influence on there will be a reception and My First Summer in the Si American history. The 90 book signing by Scot Miller. erra. minute film, which is sched- PAGE 3
out about what is in the materials that are not accessible via the web or microform? The online finding aid is the answer. It lists the contents to every folder in the collection. For example, researchers will find that the Papers contain most of the collected bibliography of Muir as listed in Kimes' John Muir: A Reading Bibliography. They will also find photographs that have been donated to the collection since the microform project was completed. In addi Mike Wurtz tion, the collection includes Muir biographer In the archives William F. Bade's transcriptions of many of 2010 Muir's Journals, as well as Bade's collected reminiscences, and personal letters. One can also find Linnie Marsh Wolfe's correspondence ONLINE INVENTORY and papers as she wrote her biography of Muir, OF MUIR PAPERS IS and her transcriptions of some of Muir journals. g~~ UPDATED Papers from the Strenzel and Muir family includ ~bb(L ing legal and business papers for the Muir ranch By Michael Wurtz in Martinez are also available. There is also ~4to Holt-Atherton Special Collections poetry to and about Muir; John Muir's clipping University of the Pacific Library files that he kept on many different topics and ~~ memorabilia that includes Muir's odds and ends Recently, the staff of the Holt-Atherton Special such as passenger lists, maps and botanical tk~ . Collections had announced the addition of thou information from trips he took around the world. sands of John Muir correspondence to the web Researchers can also find a few real jewels library.pacific.edujhajmuir and click on digi within the John Muir Papers that have never tized material. This was added to images of made it to microform or online including photo Muir's drawings, photographs, and journals. graphs of construction of the Half Dome Cables These digital assets have been a tremendous Trail in 1919 and clippings on early California help to researchers around the world. However, agriculture that were probably collected by Muir there is still much of the collection that is not and his father-in-law, John Strentzel. available online. Digitally scanning and loading To get to the finding aid for the John Muir Pa the entirety of John Muir Papers and other col pers, visit library.pacific.edujhajmuir/find and lections would be a daunting task, so only the click on "Finding Aid of the John Muir Papers." most useful and significant items are made From the above website, researchers are invited available via the web at this time. to click on "Related Collections." Here, re In addition to all the new online material, we searchers can see over a dozen finding aids to have updated the John Muir Papers finding aid. other Muir related collections that the University A finding aid, sometimes referred to as a finding of the Pacific Library holds. guide, could be considered an inventory, table of contents, index, and annotated bibliography all in one. Collections that are the size and scope of the Muir Papers cannot be easily item ---- ized. A typical six inch box can hold over a thou sand individual documents. To list and describe each of those items would take a great deal of time. Archivists have chosen to organize collec tions along the lines of what the creator (in this case, John Muir) intended. Once we have cre ated the categories (such as letters, drawings, published materials, etc.) we describe them in slightly more specific terms, such as by date or location or subject. Then the researcher must request the items by folder or box. The online material represents the richest portion of the John Muir Papers. However, it is a minority of all the Muir material. The microform project that was completed in the 1980s in cludes much more of the collection, but still not every item. The entire collection resides at Holt Atherton Special Collections in the University of the Pacific Library. How can the researcher find PAGE 4
(continued from page 1) Muir's choices of routes, and through compari ous terrain through the use of hachures. The son to modern maps. Some of the maps exam earliest maps that would today be considered ined were George Woolworth Colton 's 1869 topographic maps are the 30 minute quadran "Map of Kentucky and Tennessee,"9 A.J. John glesls issued by the US Geological Survey in the son's 1866 "Map of Kentucky and Tennes 1890s. These were surveyed two or three dec see, "lo as well as all the relevant, internet ades after Muir's walk, so they need to be used available maps from the collections of the Li judiciously and in connection with the Civil War brary of CongressH, the David Rumsey collec era maps. tion of historical maps12, and the historical map Reconstructing the route archive of the University of Alabama .13 In order to reconstruct Muir's probable route, These comparisons show that the best avail A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf and Muir's map from the era of Muir's walk is Charles journal for the trip were searched for geographi Charles E. Swann's able Military Map of Kentucky E. Swann's 1863 "Military Map of Kentucky and cal clues, then a reasonable route was traced and Tennessee Tennessee. "14 Also valuable because it gives out on Civil War-era maps. That information was www.davidrumsey.com the names and characteristics of roads, is N. then transferred to topographical maps from the Michler's 1862 "Map of Middle and East Ten 1890s, and then transferred to modern maps. nessee.15" The 1863 map "Mountain Region of The result of this process has been recorded on North Carolina and Tennessee" by W. L. Nichol Google maps. 19 To see this map, go to .bllQ.;LL son and A. Lindenkohl16 has almost twice the maps.google.com/ Click on "search options." scale and was useful for confirming the previ On the drop-down menu, select "User-created ous two maps. maps." Type in "John Muir Cumberland." Click Finally, the "General Topographical Map" by on "search maps." Then click on "John Muir's Julius Bien & Co. was issued by the United Crossing of the Cumberland " to see Muir's route States War Department in 1895, but it was part and places visited along the way. of an "Atlas to Accompany the Official Records This process is for the most part easier than it of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861- sounds, and while it cannot be and does not 1865" and seems to show features as they pretend to be exact, most individuals perform existed in 1865, not 1895. Sheet XV is the ing the process would come up with a very simi relevant map.17 lar route; however a researcher possessing de None of these maps show features with the tailed local historical and geographical knowl accuracy and scale with which we are familiar edge could probably improve the end result. today. None of them show elevation contours; According to Muir's journal and A Thousand however the "General Topographical Map" of Mile Walk to the Gulf, Muir passed through Julius Bien mentioned above depicts mountain- Burkesville, Kentucky on September 8. He
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The next day, then the Morgan County Seat, was then located "after a few miles of level ground"21 Muir on the upper reaches of Emory River, just west walked upgrade with occasional views in which of Wartburg. "Kentucky was grandly seen "22 for "six or seven From Montgomery to Kingston, the only practi ··~~~ hours"23 to reach the top of the Cumberland cable route is east through Wartburg, then Plateau . He passed through Jamestown and as branching southeast at Crooked Fork and pro 3r~jcj- previously mentioned, spent the night with a ceeding northeast of Bitter Creek. This road ~ ~m On September 12, 1867, Muir records in his journal seeing the "most heavenly place I ever entered." Unfortunately, this exact location is difficult to determine today. (p. 23 "Florida and Cuba Trip" journal. John Muir Papers, Holt Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. © 1984 Muir-Hanna Trust) 00/JSIJS The question of the "most heavenly place" his cens ENDNOTES 1. Digitized images of Muir's notebooks are available through http :I/I ibra ry.pacific.ed u/ha/ digital/muirjournals/muirjournals.asp See jour nal number 1, images 9 through 13. Cystopteris 2. John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the (bladder fern) Gulf, ed . William Frederic Bade (Boston: Hough One of the plants ton Mifflin Company, 1916). Reprinted in John mentioned by Muir From: luirig.altervista .org Muir, The Wilderness Journeys, ed . with intro duction by Graham White (Edinburgh: Canon gate Classics, 1996) 3. Ibid., (1916}, p. 17; (1996}, ed. White, p. 9. 4. Ibid ., (1916), p. 22; (1996), ed . White, p. 11. 5. Ibid ., (1916), p. 29; (1996), ed . White, p. 14. seat of Jamestown. Indeed, even today the 6. Bonnie Johanna Gisel, ed ., Kindred and telephone book shows that there are three Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and households named "Livingston" in Jamestown. "gte~ Jeanne C. Carr, (Salt Lake City: University of And all of them live near the author's estimated Utah Press, 2001}, pp. 57-59. route south of downtown Jamestown! w.ule ~ 100t ~ 7. Muir, op. cit., (1916), p. 15; (1996), ed . At this point the author reached a dead end White p. 8. toward a solution of the blacksmith question, as ~~~ 8. Ibid., (1916}, p. 30; (1996}, ed. White, p. many Fentress County records were lost during 15. Muir's Houghton-Mifflin editor, William Fre a 1905 courthouse fire. However, a determined ~wJa. ~'OIL derick Bade identified the river in brackets as seeker armed with local records and local [Emory River] . ~ -·· knowledge might be able to uncover more. 9. George Woolworth Colton's 1869 Map of A visit today Kentucky and Tennessee (scale 1:1,584,000) is In his thousand-mile walk, Muir sought out available through "the wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way 1 http://alabamamaps.ua .edu/historicalmaps/ could find."34 The geographical route Muir took us states/kentucky/index.html is no longer particularly wild, leafy, or untrod It shows a road running from Montgomery, den. Anyone wishing to recreate Muir's journey Tennessee to Kingston, Tennessee, along will need to take side trips away from Muir's the west bank of the Emory River. The road geographical route to glimpse his spiritual route shown on this map supposedly crossed through the wild, the leafy, and the least trod Obed 's River just before that river joins with den. "John Muir's Crossing of the Cumber Emery's River. Modern names for these land"35 suggests more than two dozen sites to rivers are Obed River and Emory River. visit, from waterfalls to overlooks to springs to Modern maps show that this supposed virgin forests. road would have to descend a 400-foot cliff It is interesting to note that the "thousand to reach the Obed and then immediately mile" route taken by Muir is not the route taken ascend a 400-foot cliff on the other side. by the present-day John Muir Trail, which runs Colton's map also shows Clear Creek empty for 42 miles in the Cumberland Plateau through ing into the Obed upstream of Daddy's Big South Fork National River and Recreation Creek, whereas modern maps show that Area and adjoining Pickett State Forest. Nor is it the reverse is correct. No other map of that the route taken by the John Muir National Rec era shows this road. reation Trail, which runs for 21 miles along the 10. A.J. Johnson 's 1866 Map of Kentucky and north bank of Hiwassee River within Cherokee Tennessee (scale 1:1,521,000) is available National Forest in eastern Tennessee. These at the same web site listed in note #9. It two trails were named to acknowledge Muir as shows a road direct from Kingston, Tennessee an early naturalist walker in the area, not to re to Madisonville, Tennessee. create his precise route. 11. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/ Acknowledgement Had Muir walked this same route 143 gmdhome.html The author is grateful for the help of Willie R. years after he did, he would have 12. http://www.davidrumsey.com/ Beaty, President of the Fentress County Histori plenty of food options. This Hardee's 13. http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/ cal Society in Jamestown, Tennessee, who sug fast food restaurant on the Knoxville historicalmaps/index.html Highway in Wartburg, TN is probably gested some profitable avenues of investiga 14. Charles E. Swann, "Military Map of Ken only a few steps off the "thousand tion . Also to Wil Reding of Kalamazoo, Michigan tucky and Tennessee, " 1863, scale mile walk to the Gulf." who with his wife Sarah Reding retraced the 1:350.000 Available through!illQ.;il (Used with permission from the Fish thousand-mile walk route on 5 May to 25 June erman's Quartet website http:/1 www.davidrumsey.com/maps2433.html 2006, suggested improvements to a late draft thefishermansquartet.com http:// hd l.loc.gov /loc.gmd/g3951s.cs0216800 of this article. November 18, 2010 PAGE 8 15. N. Michler, "Map of Middle and East Ten sent in the 1916 published book but not in the nessee," 1862, scale 1:235,000. Available source journal (described in note #1). It is not through http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/ clear whether they were added by Muir or by g3962t.cws00162 editor William Frederic Bade, but in either case 16. W.L. Nicholson and A. Lindenkohl, they were added long after the fact, when "Mountain Region of North Carolina and Ten memory had undoubtedly faded. nessee," 1863, scale 1:633,600. Available 31. Muir, op. cit., (1916), p. 31; (1996), ed . through White, p. 15. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3900.cw0053000 32. The microfilm for this census has been 17. Julius Bien & Co., "General Topographical electronically scanned by HeritageQuest Map," sheet XV, United States War Department, Online and is available through 1895. Scale 1:633,600. Available through http://www.HeritageOuestOnline.com http://www .david ru msey.com/ detail?id= 1-1- 33. Muir, op. cit., (1916), p. 22; (1996), ed . 26982-1100281 White, p. 11. 18. These U.S. Geological Survey 30 minute 34. Ibid., (1916), p. 2; (1996), ed. White, p. 1. quadrangles (scale 1:125,000) are relevant: 35."John Muir's Crossing of the Cumberland" Wartburg, Tennessee, "Edition of Mar. 1896. op. cit. Topography by A. E. Murlin. Surveyed in 1893." Briceville, Tennessee, "Edition of July 1896. Schrankia, (sensitive briar) Topography by J.F. Knight and E.C. Barnard. One of the plants Surveyed in 1888-91." mentioned by Muir Loudon, Tennessee, "Edition of Oct. 1895. kansasnativeplantsociety.org Topography by F.M. Pearson 1884-5. Topography by C. E. Cooke 1891." Kingston, Tennessee, "Edition of Mar. 1891. Topography by F.M. Pearson. Surveyed in "~ tfu,_ ~ 4 tfu,_ 1884-5." Available through http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/ ~~. us_statesjtennesseejtopos/30mintopos.html 19. "John Muir's Crossing of the Cumberland." tfu,_ ~ ~ ~ tfuJ: Available through http://maps.google.com/ Search "User-created maps" for "John Muir tr~j J=t WkL ~ 28. About 25 miles in Kentucky and 10 miles in tfu,_ ~ ~ Tatge, producer of many PBS documentaries, shared a segment of her forthcoming American Masters production, "John Muir in the New World, " to air April 18, 2011. Professor Donald Worster, Muir's most recent biographer, shared thoughts on "John Muir and the Religion of Na ture" as the luncheon keynote, sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa. Officers in Pacific's division of Student Life gt,_~ shared what is going on at Pacific to promote environmental stewardship in the unique fresh ~~ John Muir Highway Dedication On June 5, 2010, around three hundred dedi cated John Muir enthusiasts gathered in Coul terville to launch California's newest historic highway. Named for John Muir, twenty-eight miles of Highway 132 from Coulterville east to where it merges with Highway 120 now com prise Mariposa County's John Muir Highway. Only miles from the north entrance to Yosemite National Park, Muir followed what is now High way 132 on his second journey to Yosemite in 1869. Coulterville has not changed a great deal since Muir's time and remains a small village where tourists join local residents at historic buildings still standing since the nineteenth century. Species of pine, especially yellow and Ribbon cutting ceremony sugar, permeate the air today as in Muir's time at John Muir Highway Dedication, when he stopped at Greeley Mill, noting "the June 5, 2010 fragrance of the sugary sap is delicious and scents the mill ." The result of combined efforts of local conser Bill Hanna and Lee Stetson vationists and promoters of sustainable agricul at John Muir Highway Dedication, ture and geotourism, John Muir Highway was June 5, 2010 the idea of Ken and Teri Pulvino, who caretake land along Greeley Hill Road (132) and operate Birders Homestead, a bed and breakfast in the midst of habitat once celebrated by Muir and home to many species of trees, birds, vernal pools and native grasses. A parade and pag eant were part of the gathering, which brought together several of Muir's Hanna family descen dants, actor Lee Stetson, and Santa Cruz-based bookbinders and artists, Peter and Donna Tho mas, who followed Muir's route to Yosemite "~~·~~ from San Francisco in 2007. A picnic lunch was sponsored by the Pulvinos on their prop ~~m~jawc erty, believed to be one of Muir's stops for ob ruJ w_ servations of nature, known to all who have ·~ ~MM: ~~ read My First Summer in the Sierra. tk~~.·~~~ 1 868 Ribbon cutting ceremony at John Muir Highway Dedication, June 5, 2010 PAGE 1 1 New Juan Bautista/ De Anza NHT Exhibit at John Muir National Historic Site! September 25 marked the unveiling of the first full-scale Anza Trail Exhibit in Martinez, Califor nia! This multi-sensory experience engages visitors through evocative images and interac tive displays. Grand opening festivities included fun family activities, live music and dance, and a celebration of the diversity of people whose RediscoverJ~h~n ~~,L. ___.::;,;._~ __....;:;~ Botanical Legacy lives were changed by the Anza Expedition. For Bedford Gallery more information call (925) 228-8860. January 9-March 27, 2011 Michael Branch writes High Country News blogessays Muir scholar Michael Branch recently began NEWS 8c NOTES writing a monthly blog essay called Rants from the Hill for High Country News. These short You are invited to celebrate the opening of essays are posted mid-month and concern life in the high country of Nevada's western Great Nature's Beloved Son Basin desert. The first of these essays "Greetings from Nevada " can be found at Rediscovering John Muir's Botanical Legacy http:/j www.hcn.org/blogsj rangej greetings Curated by Bonnie J. Gisel from-nevada-1-july-2010?src=mc Photographs by Stephen J. Joseph Yosemite Conservancy and the 351h Annual Fall Thursday, January 13, 6:00 to 8:00p.m. Gathering Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Yosemite Conservancy is the new nonprofit Arts, 1601 Civic Dr., Walnut Creek formed by a merger of the Yosemite Association and the Yosemite Fund . The Conservancy has a Enjoy wine and hors d'oeuvres provided by the long history in Yosemite with over 100 years of Bedford Gallery Guild. combined experience supporting the park. Yo $5 general admission, free for Friends of the semite Conservancy can make a difference in Bedford. what one sees in the park because they are the only philanthropic organization that is dedicated John Muir was a botanist throughout his life and exclusively to Yosemite. The Yosemite Conser his fondness for the nature and beauty of plants vancy has funded over 300 projects through contributed significantly to his understanding of $55 million in grants to help preserve and pro the need to preserve wilderness. Yet this aspect tect the park. The work of the Conservancy can of the well-known conservationist's passions is be found in every aspect of the visitor experi little known. In the spirit which John Muir em ence from trail restoration, bear-proof lockers braced the botanical world, the traveling exhibi and canisters, habitat restoration, outdoor edu tion, which is based on the Heyday book with cation and so much more. Annually the Yosem the same title, Nature's Beloved Son: Rediscov ite Conservancy recruits over 400 volunteers to ering John Muir's Botanical Legacy traces work in the park to repair trails, remove invasive Muir's travels to Canada, Indiana, the American species and provide visitor information. At the southeast, California, and Alaska, and presents 35th Annual Fall Gathering on October 2 at Wa vivid images and specimens of the actual plants wona, Yosemite Conservancy donated $5.9 that Muir held in his hands, carried in his pock million to Yosemite. Superintendant Neubacher ets, and preserved for all time. accepted on behalf of Yosemite National Park Service and celebrated with supporters. For The exhibit will run from January 9 through more information on the Conservancy, visit park March 27, 2011. For more information, please Superintendant Neubacher bookstores or check out their new website at accepting $5.9 million check visit The Bedford Gallery at www. yosem iteconserva ncy .org from Yosemite Conservancy at October 2, 2010 Fall Gathering http:/j www.bedfordgallery.org/current.htm WE'RE ON THE WEB !-ITrP:/ / Pi\CIFIC.EDU /X7391.XML THE JOHN MUIR C E N T E R University of the Pacific 3601 Pacific Avenue Stockton, California 95211 Phone: 209.946.2527 Fax: 209.946.2318 E-mail: [email protected] THE JOHN MUIR CENTER The John Muir Center promotes the ter was established in 1989 with the study of John Muir and environmental following objectives: ism at the University of the Pacific and beyond. • To foster a closer academic rela tionship between Pacific and the Center Objectives larger community of scholars, students and citizens interested As one of California's most important in regional and environmental historical figures, John Muir (1838- studies. 1914) was a regional naturalist with • To provide greater opportunities global impact. His papers, housed in for research and publication by the library's Holt-Atherton Special Col Pacific faculty and students. lections, are among the University's most important resources for scholarly • To offer opportunities for out-of research. classroom learning experiences. • To promote multi-disciplinary cur Recognizing the need both to encour ricular development. age greater utilization of the John Muir Papers by the scholarly community, and the need to promote the study of California and its impact upon the global community, the John Muir Cen-