Brian C. Wilson is professor of comparative religion at Western Michigan University and author of John E. Fetzer and the Quest for the New Age.
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In the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson boarded a train in Concord, Massachusetts, bound for a month-and-a-half-long tour of California—an interlude that became one of the highlights of his life. On their journey across the American West, he and ... SEE MORE