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| Alaska's Thousand Islands, as seen from Sitka | [78] |
| An Alaska Indian House, with Totem Poles | [66] |
| Chancel of the Greek Church, Sitka | [75] |
| Chilkat Blanket | [81] |
| Columbia River, looking Eastward from Rock Bluff | [Frontispiece] |
| Detroit Lake and Hotel Minnesota, Detroit, Minn. | [11] |
| Falls of the Gibbon River, National Park | [29] |
| Floating Fish Wheel, Columbia River | [42] |
| Hotel Tacoma, Tacoma, W. T. | [47] |
| Lake Pend d'Oreille, Idaho | [33] |
| Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, National Park | [21] |
| Mount Hood, from the Head of the Dalles, Columbia River | [38] |
| Mount Tacoma, W. T. | [44] |
| Old Faithful Geyser, National Park | [18] |
| Scenes among the Alaskan Glaciers | [89] |
| Scenes in the Inland Passage | [59] |
| Sitka, Alaska | [72] |
| T'linket Basket Work | [68] |
| T'linket Carved Spoons | [85] |
| T'linket War Canoe | [83] |
| Yellowstone River, National Park | [25] |
From the Great Lakes to Puget Sound.
“To the doorways of the West-Wind,
To the portals of the Sunset.”
hile, in the old world, armies have been contending for the possession of narrow strips of territory, in kingdoms themselves smaller than many single American States, and venerable savants have been predicting the near approach of the time when the population of the world shall have outstripped the means of subsistence, there has arisen, between the headwaters of the Mississippi and the mouth of the stately Columbia, an imperial domain, more than three times the size of the German empire, and capable of sustaining upon its own soil one hundred millions of people. What little has been done—for it is but little, comparatively—toward the development of its amazing resources, has called into existence, on its eastern border, two great and beautiful cities, which have sprung up side by side on the banks of the great Father of Waters.
It is there, at St. Paul and Minneapolis, that the traveler's journey to Wonderland may be said to begin. And what could be more fitting? for are they not wonders in themselves, presenting, as they do, the most astonishing picture of rapid expansion the world has ever seen?