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Periodical: The Mountain Pine

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Mountain Pine, The.
Successor to the Philosophical Journal.
Other titles: The Mountain Pine. Colorado's Magazine (with 2/10, February 1908)
1906-1908 Monthly
Crystola, CA, and from February 1908 in Langdon, CO. Language: English.
Publisher: Crystola Publishing Co.. Editor: George B. Lang.
Succeeds: Religio-Philosophical Journal -> Philosophical Journal
1/1 June 1906-2/12 May 1908. $1.00/year. Illustrated with photographs of J.M. Peebles, Henry Wagner, et al. 6 x 10, c. 36 pp.

This is the last gasp of the once-mighty Religio-Philosophical Journal, reduced in its old age to New Thought, fringe health advice, the "higher socialism" and long disquisitions throughout 1907-1908 by Dr. Henry Wagner of the H.B. of L. It functioned as a vehicle for the Crystola Camp and land-development in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado (near Pikes Peak and Ute Pass). In its last months devoted almost exclusively (except for Wagner's continuing series on "The Religion of Nature" and "The New Man") to cowboy stories and to tales of adventure and exploration in Africa.

Other Sources:NYPL.
Issues:Mountain Pine V1 1906
Mountain Pine V2 1907
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Mountain Pine was a San Francisco monthly of the mid-1900s whose first issue (June 1906) opened with Rev. John W. Ring's 'Fundamental Principles of Modern Spiritualism,' anchoring it firmly in the Spiritualist movement of mediumship, seances, and spirit-control. Around that core it wove the broader reform enthusiasms of the Progressive-Era West Coast: a socialism essay ('Why Socialism Comes'), health and physical-culture features, an educational 'university of a new kind,' and a notably occult and esoteric vocabulary of initiation, adepts, and magic. The result is a hybrid periodical — spiritualist at heart but reaching into occult study, mental self-culture, and social reform — published in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake it also chronicled ('The Fall and Rise of San Francisco'). It belongs with the reform-minded Spiritualist press rather than with any single narrower tradition.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:New Thought | Socialism and Labor Reform