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Fall 2008 121 Robert Marshall “A perfectly new, untrammeled world” N A posthumous collection of Marshall’s Alaska journals and earlier writings, initially entitled Arctic Wilderness (later, Alaska Wilderness), was published in 1956, just as Zahniser began drafting the wilderness act. These pieces had earlier been typed and distributed among friends, family, and wilder- ness advocates. Untrammeled appears three times in this book, which Zahniser read and reviewed favorably in Nature.3 Bob Marshall (left) and Ward Shepard, Mission Mountains, Montana, about 1925, and a view of the Chinese Wall in Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness N Marshall first gained national prominence as a writer with a seminal 1930 article, “The Problem of the Wilderness.” In de- scribing the self-sufficiency required in wilderness, he wrote, Sources “This is inconceivable under the effete superstructure of 1. Marshall, “The Problem of the Wilderness,” Scientific Monthly urbanity; it demands the harsh environment of untrammeled 30 (Feb. 1930): 143; Howard Zahniser, “A Statement on Wilderness Preservation in Reply to a Questionnaire,” Mar. 1, 1949, Senate Com- expanses.” Zahniser quoted this article extensively, including mittee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Hearings before the Committee this sentence, in his lengthy 1949 essay for the Legislative on S. 1176, 85th Cong., 1st sess., June 19–20, 1957, p. 188–89. 1 Reference Service of the Library of Congress. 2. Nature Magazine 29 (Apr. 1937): 237. For Zahniser’s quotations, see Ed Zahniser, ed., Where Wilderness Preservation Began: Adiron- N Marshall used the word untrammeled twice in his well- dack Writings of Howard Zahniser 5TICA .9 .ORTH #OUNTRY "OOKS known 1937 article for Nature Magazine, “The Universe of the 1992), 50, 74. He did not, however, quote the untrammeled passage. 3. Robert Marshall, Alaska Wilderness: Exploring the Central Wilderness is Vanishing.” Describing a remote Rocky Mountain Brooks Range "ERKELEY 5NIVERSITY OF #ALIFORNIA 0RESS lake, for example, he wrote: “Everything about the place, from 68; Howard Zahniser, “Nature in Print: Wilderness In Our Time,” Nature the bright green sedges that surrounded the lake, to the lodge- Magazine 49 (June/July 1956): 284–85. Marshall also used untram- pole-covered mountain sides that rose from its shores, to the meled in earlier work: a 1922 journal article, “Nicks Pond,” reprinted rock-covered pinnacles that jutted far above it, was a perfectly IN 0HIL "ROWN ED Robert Marshall in the Adirondacks: Writings of a Pioneering Peak-Bagger, Pond-Hopper and Wilderness Preservationist new, untrammeled world, just as it had come fresh from the (Saranac Lake, NY: Lost Pond Press, 2006), 122; “Recreational Limita- dawn of time.” Zahniser, who had been writing a monthly col- tions to Silviculture in the Adirondacks,” Journal of Forestry 23 (Feb. umn for Nature since 1935, quoted from Marshall’s article at 1925): 173; “Adventure, Arrogance, and the Arctic,” Young Wings, May least twice, in speeches given in 1953 and 1957.2 1933, p. 11. 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