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1985 John Muir Symposium
John Muir: Life and Legacy
The Pacific Historian,
Vol. 29, Numbers 2 & 3 (Summer/Fall, 1985)
In the spring of 1985 the University of the Pacific hosted a major conference, called to celebrate John Muir's life and legacy. It also toasted the John Muir Papers Microform Project, which [at the time was] nearing completion after a five-year effort to gather, organize, and publish all of Muir's extant journals, correspondence and holograph manuscripts. Over 250 registrants from all parts of the West gathered to hear twenty-five speakers and panelists from thirteen different academic institutions in nine different states and the District of Columbia.
Collectively the papers presented at the conference's eight academic sessions represent the cutting edge of Muir's scholarship in America today. Many of them broke new ground in Muir historiography by utilizing scholarly resources in the Muir-Hanna family collection at the University of the Pacific that had not been accessible before. Recognizing their importance, The Pacific Historian has selected twelve of the most important for publication in this special double issue.
- Excerpted from the Introduction.
Complete Document - courtesy of Oregon State University Library
Contents
Introduction
John Muir in Wisconsin
Millie Stanley
The Nature of John Muir's Religions
Ronald H. Limbaugh
Earthquakes or Snowflowers
Bart O'Brien
John Muir's Glacial Gospel
Paul D. Sheats
John Muir's Homage to Henry David Thoreau
Richard F. Fleck
John Muir's Yankee Friends and Mentors:
The New England Connection
Edmund A. Schofield
Western Imagery
John Muir and the Community of Nature
Kathleen Anne Wadden
John Muir and the Rights of Animals
Lisa Mighetto
John Muir's Alaska Experience
Frank Buske
John Muir and Tall Trees of Australia
P.J. Ryan
"Wilderness Saint" and "Robber Baron": The Anomalous Partnership of John Muir and the Southern Pacific Company for the Preservation of Yosemite National Park
Richard J. Orsi
Toward Future Muir Biographies: Problems and Prospects
Frederick Turner
From the Editors's Desk
Western Books reviewed by
Glenna Matthews
Pacific Bookshelf
Announcements
Editor
Sally M. Miller
Past Conferences
- 1980 - The University hosted its first John Muir Conference, which are
now held about every five years. A monograph series based on the conferences
began in 1981 with the publication of The World of John Muir.
- 1985 - The papers from this conference were published the same year in John Muir:
Life and Legacy, in The Pacific Historian, Vol. 29, Numbers 2 & 3 (Summer/Fall 1985).
- 1990 - The publication of conference proceedings continued with the
1993 publication of John
Muir: Life and Work, by the University of New Mexico Press.
- 1996 - a new volume based on the presentations made to the California
History Institute in 1996, entitled John
Muir in Historical Perspective was published in 1999; Also
available are the Abstracts of papers presented at the 1996
John Muir Conference.
- 2001 John Muir Conference - Abstracts
of Papers (Off-site link). Conference proceedings have been published
under the title: John
Muir: Family, Friends, and Adventures (2005).
- 2006 John Muir Conference - John Muir in Global Perspective
- 2010 - John Muir: Naturalist and Scientist
- 2014 John Muir Symposium: What has been saved; what has been lost:
John Muir’s Legacy, 1914-2014
- 2018 John Muir Symposium: The Practical John Muir
- 2019 John Muir Legacy Fair and Celebration of Muir-Hanna family's gift of John Muir Papers- Program, Presentations, and Details
- 2022 John Muir Symposium New Perspectives on Peoples and Parks