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Show 510. Phillips Exeter and Cate School. The doctors, college professors, and lawyers loved them. These were the kinds of people that Muir had been able to convert when he took them to the mountains. These were people who would walk the John Muir T r a i l . The openness with which he greeted i n f l u e n t i a l people - p o l i t i c i a n s like Mather, Pinchot, Roosevelt, Taft, Noble, and Kent; businessmen like Harriman, Carnegie, Lukens - allowed these men who were so different from Muir to become his a l l i e s , or at least willing to listen to him. Yet Muir also gained and kept the respect of scientists and scholars l i k e C. Hart Merriam, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Charles Sargent, Joseph Hooker, Asa Gray, and Joseph LeConte. He was equally capable of appealing to humanists, poets, and a r t i s t s , l i k e Francis Fisher Browne, Robert Underwood Johnson, William Keith, Charles Robinson, Thomas Hill, and Harriet Monroe. His own friendship and political alliance with such people indicated that he wanted to foster a kind of c o a l i t i o n of Americans which would cut across the increasingly r i g i d c u l t u r a l boundaries. He encouraged his own daughters to pursue their interests despite the social c o s t s , and he took joy in seeing more and more women in the mountains - these things signified that he hoped for a more equal kind of a l l i a n c e between men and women. Perhaps Pinchot appealed to genteel women's groups like the Daughters of the American Revolution because he wanted to cement an alliance between his own "directed social organization" and the middle and upper c l a s s e s of America. So Pinchot might appeal |