Muir Visits Los Angeles

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John Muir first visited Los Angeles on this day in 1877. Traveling from Santa Monica inland, he wrote, “An hour’s ride over stretches of bare, brown plain and through cornfields and orange groves brought me to handsome conceited lil town of Los Angeles, where one finds Spanish adobes & Yankee shingles overlapping in very curious antagonism.”
Then he spent 5 days in the San Gabriel Mountains.
Via Los Angeles History.






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