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Acknowledgments

My first debt, chronologically and otherwise, is to my late friend Peter Farb, who enthusiastically encouraged me to attempt this book. Ronald H. Limbaugh, archivist of the Muir Papers at the Holt-Atherton Pacific Center for Western Studies, University of the Pacific, has been unfailingly generous, both with his time and with his great knowledge of the Muir Papers. Thanks are due also to the members of his staff, especially Berenice Lamson.

I was cordially assisted by the staffs of other institutions holding Muir materials or items of related interest. These include the Yosemite National Park Research Library, with special thanks to Jack Geyer; the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, with special thanks to James Hanson and Harold Miller; the University of Wisconsin and its archivists Bernard Schermetzler and F. Frank Cook; the Huntington Library; the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, with special thanks to Mary-Ellen Jones; the Widener and Houghton libraries, Harvard University; the Cape Cod Community College library, with thanks to Gregory Masterson; the Martinez (California) Public Library; the John Muir National Historic Site, Martinez, with special thanks to P. J. Ryan, Armando Quintero, Margaret Plummer, and Linda Moon Stumpff; the California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, with thanks to Vicky A. Ryan and Joan Flynn of its Medical Records division; the Military Service Branch, National Archives, with thanks to Brenda Beasley Kepley; the Tennessee State Department of Conservation, with thanks to Terry Bonham.

Many individuals helped me along my way, and for what they freely gave, the mere mention of their names seems poor recompense. However, my sincere thanks to Millie Stanley, T. H. Watkins, Honora Moore, John Hay, Robert Card, Sr., Stephen B. Oates, Clara Gee Rymer, Grant Barnes, Nelson Lichtenstein, Eric Simmons, William Cadman, Robert E. Fletcher, Dr. John Talley, Eugene Newmann, Holway Jones, Dr. Gulden Mackmull, Harry Kearns, Roy Harvey Pearce, William A. Williams, and Charles A. Reich; to Lucille Adler for special examples; and to Elise R. Turner, who has cheerfully borne all the changes attendant to so long a labor.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation assisted me with a handsome grant while I was in the early stages of this work.