NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1921
Copyright 1921
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
The Quinn & Boden Company
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
RAHWAY NEW JERSEY
TO
C. L. CHESTER
Hoping he will find in these pages some compensation for the fun he missed in not being along.
INTRODUCTION
The day on which I first conceived the idea of a boat trip down the Columbia hangs in a frame all its own in the corridors of my memory. It was a number of years ago—more than a dozen, I should say. Just previously I had contrived somehow to induce the Superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park to grant me permission to attempt a winter journey on ski around this most beautiful of America’s great playgrounds. He had even sent a Government scout along to keep, or help, me out of trouble. We were a week out from the post at Mammoth Hot Springs.