By Steven Gilbar, David Brower
Familiar names seem in those pages—John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, John McPhee, M.F.K. Fisher, Gretel Ehrlich—but much less customary writers equivalent to Daniel Duane, Margaret Millar, and John McKinney also are incorporated. one of the gemstones during this treasure trove are Jack Kerouac on hiking Mt. Matterhorn, Barry Lopez on snow ducks migration at Tule Lake, Edward Abbey on dying Valley, Henry Miller on huge Sur, and Joan Didion at the Santa Ana winds. Gary Snyder's inspiring Afterword displays the spirit of environmentalism that runs in the course of the ebook. Natural State additionally unearths the various alterations to California's panorama that experience happened in geological time and in human phrases. greater than a e-book of "nature writing," this e-book is excellent writing approximately nature.
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W hen the spring came tripping by from the south over the chaparral hills of Shasta, leaving flowers in every footprint as we passed, I set my face for Mount Shasta, the lightesthearted lad that ever mounted horse. A hard day's ride brought me to Portuguese Flat, the last new mining camp and the nearest town to my beloved Mount Shasta. Here I found my former partner in the Soda Springs property, Mountain Joe, and together we went up to Mount Shasta. The Indian chief, Blackbeard, gave me a beautiful little valley then known as Now-ow-wa, but now called by the euphonious name of Squaw Valley, and I built a cabin there.
His disease was consumption. I confidendy commend his experience to other skeletons. I superintended again, and as soon as we had eaten breakfast we got in the boat and skirted along the lake shore about three miles and disembarked. We liked the appearance of the place, and so we claimed some three hundred acres of it and stuck our "notices" on a tree. It was yellow-pine timberland-a dense forest of trees a hundred feet high and from one to five feet through at the butt. It was necessary to fence our property or we could not hold it.
I got Johnny to row-not because I mind exertion myself, but because it makes me sick to ride backward when I am at work. But I steered. A three-mile pull brought us to the camp just as the night fell, and we stepped ashore very tired and wolfishly hungry. In a "cache" among the rocks we found the provisions and the cooking utensils, and then, all fatigued as I was, I sat down on a boulder and superintended while Johnny gathered wood and cooked supper. Many a man who had gone through what I had would have wanted to rest.