Ancillary websites and useful information

Ancillary Websites and Useful Information

For those of you readers that wish to learn more about the subjects presented in the preceding web pages, the following is a partial list of additional web sites which contain more in depth information.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best and most comprehensive web site.
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books on Emerson and Transcendentalism
Biography and Links

United States of America's Declaration of Independence

For the complete text of The Declaration of Independence and other historical legal documents the following web site is recommended.

Chief Seattle's words 1854

The actual speech and writing by Chief Seattle is still in debate. For a discussion on this issue the reader is encouraged to visit the following web sites.
http://www.nidlink.com/~bobhard/seattle.html and

Cherokee Nation Trail of Tears

The Cherokees in 1828 were not nomadic savages. In fact, they had assimilated many European-style customs, including the wearing of gowns by Cherokee women. They built roads, schools and churches, had a system of representational government, and were farmers and cattle ranchers. A Cherokee alphabet, the "Talking Leaves" was perfected by Sequoyah. The Cherokees even attempted to fight removal legally by challenging the removal laws in the Supreme Court and by establishing an independent Cherokee Nation. This tragic story of the Cherokee Nation is part of the history of the State of Georgia.

America the Beautiful

Lyrics written by Katharine Lee Bates; inspired by a trip to Pikes Peak; the original version written in 1893, published in 1895.
The poem was later associated with the hymn "Materna" written by Samuel G. Ward in 1882. The music and text were published together in 1910.

John Muir

It was California's Sierra Nevada mountains and Yosemite that truly claimed John Muir. He walked across the San Joaquin Valley through waist-high wildflowers and into the high country for the first time in 1868. Later he would write: "Then it seemed to me the Sierra should be called not the Nevada, or Snowy Range, but the Range of Light...the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I have ever seen."

John Muir is celebrated in California and the world for writings about the magnificent beauty and breathe taking panoramas of the Sierra Nevada mountains situated on the California - Nevada border.

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