Steep Trails: California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canon

Muir, John and William Frederic Bade

Boston: Houghton, 1918. Hardcover. Greenish-gray cloth boards with black lettering and illustrations; ix, 390 pp, bw illustrations. VG (light age toning and light shelfwear to boards, pages are otherwise clean and clear.). Item #181631

The papers brought together in this volume are arranged in chronological sequence. They span a period of twenty-nine years of Muir's life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation." -- Publisher's description. Contents include: Wild wool.--A geologist's winter walk.--Summer days at Mount Shasta.--A perilous night on Shasta's summit.--Shasta rambles and Modoc memories.--The city of the Saints.--A great storm in Utah.--Bathing in Salt Lake.--Mormon lilies.--The San Gabriel Valley.--The San Gabriel Mountains.--Nevada farms.--Nevada forests.--Nevada's timber belt.--Glacial phenomena in Nevada.--Nevada's dead towns.--Puget Sound.--The forests of Washington.--People and towns of Puget Sound.--An ascent of Mount Rainier.--The physical and climatic characteristics of Oregon.--The forests of Oregon and their inhabitants.--The rivers of Oregon.--The Grand Cañon of the Colorado.