ALS, one page, 8.25 x 12.25, April 12, 1906. Written from Adamana, Arizona, a letter to Mr. Wells, in full: “I have just returned from a long visit to the wonderful petrified forests hereabouts & find your letter of the 4th. It is impossible for me to prepare an article for the June number of your magazine under present circumstances however anxious I might be to do so, for on account of death & sickness in my family I have been away from home for nearly a year, have not written a line for the press in all this time & of course am overloaded with neglected work. The Century, World’s Work, Cosmopolitan, & Everybody’s Magazines are all calling for articles, & a half dozen publishers for books, & nearly all their claims or requests are ahead of yours. But I hope to get the most pressing of this off my hands ere long & may find a chance to prepare a short article for you. In the meantime I can only send my best wishes & assure you that I am faithfully yours.” In fine condition. During the late months of 1905, Muir situated himself at the small train-stop town of Adamana to study closely the region’s fossils and petrified trees for a series of articles for Cosmopolitan magazine. Distraught by the Santa Fe’s wolfish railroad practice of carting off the petrified logs for tourist trade, Muir urged his friend, President Theodore Roosevelt, to intervene. The 1906 creation of the Petrified Forest National Monument marked one of the first instances in which the presidentially authorized Antiquities Act was employed. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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