Rhymes of the Rockies

Title page
RHYMES
of the
ROCKIES
JAMES W. WHILT
SECOND EDITION
COPYRIGHT, 1922 BY JAMES W. WHILT JERRY G. MASEK
W. B. CONKEY COMPANY CHICAGO THE HAMMOND PRESS
Printed in the United States of America
PREFACE
Having spent the major part of my life in the Rocky Mountains as timber cruiser, packer, trapper and guide, I have learned to love their beauty and grandeur; enjoy their solitude and feel that they are a part of me.
It is there one can breathe the air of the Great Out Doors and gaze on mountains and glaciers whose never ending chain stretches into space and to listen to the waterfall's laughter. Where the denizens of the wild roam unmolested as they did for ages past, when man first came to this Virgin Paradise. Where camp-fires still glow at eventide,—their smoke wreaths adding incense to the freshness of the air.