Rhymes of the Rockies

by James W. Whilt

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.

While my words cannot express even in one detail the beauty as I see it, I truly and sincerely hope these few humble rhymes will paint in your mind a mental picture that time itself may impair but not erase.

With these thoughts ever vividly before me, I dedicate this book to the Rocky Mountains and their "wonder child"—the Glacier National Park.

JAMES W. WHILT.

Eureka, Montana
May 25, 1922

CONTENTS

[Adventurer's Luck]
[Au Revoir]
[Cabin of Mystery, The]
[Call of Nature, The]
[Chinook Wind, The]
[Ed Enders' Grave]
[Indian Trails]
[Lark Song, The]
[Memory's Camp-Fire]
[Moonlight]
[My Blanket-Roll]
[My Dream]
[My Garden]
[My Jewels]
[My Request]
[My Rhymes]
[Old Frying Pan, The]
[Pack Train, The]
[Pale Horse, The]
[Passing of the Range]
[Place Where I Was Born, The]
[Rainy Day, The]
[Rainstorm, The]
[Silent Voices of the Night]
[Snowstorm, The]
[Springtime]
[Streamlet, The]
[To the Robin]
[Trapper's Story, The]
[Trapper's Trail, The]
[When the Leaves Commence to Fall]
[Winter]