The awakening of the desert . es of our Pacific coast territory. There were a very few, however, who were attractednot by gold but by admiration for the sublime and beau-tiful in nature, especially through companionship withthe noble trees and towering cliffs of the Sierras; andthese men aided in revealing to the world the previouslyunwritten history of these formations. Among them wereJohn Muir, the shepherd, naturalist, and author, andGalen Clark, the pioneer and discoverer of the MariposaGrove. I appreciated Galen Clarks homage for naturewhen, after spending a night at his cabin, built in 1
The awakening of the desert . es of our Pacific coast territory. There were a very few, however, who were attractednot by gold but by admiration for the sublime and beau-tiful in nature, especially through companionship withthe noble trees and towering cliffs of the Sierras; andthese men aided in revealing to the world the previouslyunwritten history of these formations. Among them wereJohn Muir, the shepherd, naturalist, and author, andGalen Clark, the pioneer and discoverer of the MariposaGrove. I appreciated Galen Clarks homage for naturewhen, after spending a night at his cabin, built in 1857,he personally led me among those monarchs of the forest,stating the heights of various trees, and for my satisfac-tion assisted in measuring the trunks of many; one ofthem was 101 feet in circumference. He referred to themin affectionate terms, expressing the hope that theymight be spared from the lumbermans axe. It was still later when I first visited Muirs haunts inthe Yosemite; George Anderson, a Scotch ship-carpenter,. O eo o a H J c/2 o W o W a si - = 5 ADVENTURES OF AN AMATEUR DETECTIVE 407 had spent the summer in drilling holes into the graniteface of the upper cliff of the great South Dome, drivingin it iron pins with ropes attached. Two or three per-sons were tempted to scale with the aid of these ropes theheights, which are nearly a perpendicular mile above thevalley. I, too, was inclined to make the venture. I pro-ceeded in advance, followed by Anderson, who had intow a young San Franciscan with a connecting ropearound the young mans waist. It was a dizzy but in-spiring ascent and I was pleased to reach the top twentyminutes in advance of my pursuers. While spendingan hour upon the summit, I discovered on its barren sur-face, a ladys bracelet. On showing it to Anderson, hesaid: You are the third party who-has made this pulled up a young woman recently but she never men-tioned any loss except from nausea. Returning to Mer-ced, I observed a vigorous young
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