The cover of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
PREFACE.
"A Summer's Outing" comprises letters hastily written while the writer was on the wing. Being printed in the Chicago Tribune they were favorably received by many friends, who have urged their being published in book form, as a thing now needed by would-be tourists to the Yellowstone National Park and to Alaska. To this end they were revised and somewhat enlarged. If the little book be of little value, the apology is offered that it will be, too, of little cost.
"The Old Man's Story" is thrown in as filling between two covers, and need not be read except by those who find an idle hour hard to dispose of.
Carter H. Harrison.
231 Ashland Boulevard,
Chicago, May 6th, 1891.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| INTRODUCTION. | |
| The Writer Indulges in Fancies | [9] |
| LETTER I. | |
| A Run Through Pretty Wisconsin and Minnesota — Beautiful St. Paul — Jealousy Between Twin Cities — An Indignant St. Paul Democratand a Careless Seattle Man — Dakota and the Dirty Missouri River — A Dissertation on Waste of Land and Destruction of Trees — TheBad Lands — The Yellowstone River — Gateway to National Park andits Guardian Eagle | [15] |
| LETTER II. | |
| The National Park, "The Wonderland of the Globe" — The Home ofthe Evil One — Steam Vents — Geysers — The Grotto — The Giant — TheBee-Hive — The Castle and Old Faithful in the Upper GeyserBasin | [27] |
| LETTER III. | |
| Mammoth Hot Springs — A Wonderful Formation — The White Elephant — A Theory Accounting for the Hot Springs and Geysers — MudGeysers — Marvelous Colorings of Some Pools | [45] |
| LETTER IV. | |
| How to do the Park — Hotels and Vehicles — My Innocents — CharmingScenery — Natural Meadows — Wild Animals — Beautiful Flowers — Debtsto the Devil — Camp Life and Fishing — Wonderful Canyon — PaintedRocks — Glorious Waterfalls — Nature Grotesque and Beautiful | [59] |
| LETTER V. | |
| We Leave the Park Satisfied — Helena — Its Gold BearingFoundations — Broadwater — A Magnificent Natatorium — A WildRide Through Town — Crossing the Rockies — Spokane — A Busy Town — Midnight Picnic — Fine Agricultural Country — Sage Bush aBlessing — Picturesque Run Over the Cascades — Acres of MaltLiquors — Tacoma — A Startling Vision of Mt. Renier (Tacoma) — Washington, a Great State | [82] |
| LETTER VI. | |
| Thriving and Picturesque Seattle — Two Curious Meetings — Victoria and its Flowers — Esquimault and the Warspite — TwoBroken Hearted Girls — Charming Sail on the Island Sea — Picturesque Mountains — Growth of Alaska — Whales and theirSports — Native Alaskans — Their Homes, Habits, Food, Feastsand Wild Music — Baskets and Blankets — Salmon Fisheries — Minesand Dogs | [102] |
| LETTER VII. | |
| Steaming up the Ice-Packed Fiords and Channels of the ArcticCountry owned by Uncle Sam — Salmon Canneries — Canoe Buildingby Natives — Ascent of the "Muir" Glacier, an Ice Cliff 300Feet High — Fantastic Ice Formations at Takou — Summer andWinter Climates — Impudent Crows and Oratorical Ravens | [134] |
| LETTER VIII. | |
| Vancouver — A Picturesque, Growing City — A Run over the CanadianPacific — Magnificent Scenery met with from the Start — A GloriousRide — Fraser River Glutted with Salmon — A Never-Tiring Viewfrom Glacier House, Four Thousand Feet above the Sea — Rugged,Precipitous Grandeur of the Selkirks and Rockies — NaturalBeauties of Banff — Reflections at the "Soo." | [162] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The St. Mary's River — Charming Scenery — The Locality for SummerHomes — An Episode — Mackinaw — Grand Rapids, a Beautiful City | [196] |
| PART II. | |
| "THE OLD MAN'S STORY." | |
| The Secret of the Big Rock | [203] |