| PAGE | ||
| FOREWORD | ||
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | AUF WIEDERSEHEN | [1] |
| II. | PLENTY OF ROOM | [34] |
| III. | OFF FOR ALASKA | [46] |
| IV. | FIRST VIEWS | [59] |
| V. | FURTHER GLIMPSES | [72] |
| VI. | GOLD FIELDS | [85] |
| VII. | MUIR GLACIER | [91] |
| VIII. | SITKA | [103] |
| IX. | ALASKA | [116] |
| X. | FAREWELL TO SKAGWAY | [129] |
| XI. | WASHINGTON AND OREGON | [137] |
| XII. | OFF FOR CALIFORNIA | [160] |
| XIII. | SAN FRANCISCO | [173] |
| XIV. | CALIFORNIA FARMS AND VINEYARDS | [187] |
| XV. | YOSEMITE | [191] |
| XVI. | SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | [210] |
| XVII. | HERE AND THERE ON THE COAST | [217] |
| XVIII. | WALLA WALLA VALLEY | [224] |
| XIX. | HISTORICAL REFERENCES | [228] |
| XX. | YELLOWSTONE PARK | [236] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| PAGE | |
| Junction of the Mississippi and Black Rivers | [9] |
| Falls of Saint Anthony | [11] |
| Falls of Minnehaha | [13] |
| Old Fort Snelling | [15] |
| Roadway, Soldiers’ Barracks, Fort Snelling | [17] |
| Entering the Cascade Range | [35] |
| Lava Beds in Washington | [37] |
| Tangle of Wild Fern in a Washington Forest | [39] |
| Mount Rainier | [41] |
| Street in Tacoma, Washington | [45] |
| Parliament House, Victoria | [51] |
| Gorge of Homathco | [53] |
| Light House, Point Robert | [55] |
| Fjords of Alaska | [57] |
| Fishing Hamlet of Ketchikan | [59] |
| Fort Wrangel, Alaska | [63] |
| Chief Shake’s House, Fort Wrangel | [67] |
| Entering Wrangel Narrows | [71] |
| Douglas Island, Looking Toward Juneau | [73] |
| Silver Bow Cañon, Juneau. (By permission of F. Laroche, photographer, Seattle, Washington) | [75] |
| Old Russian Court House, Juneau | [77] |
| Street in Juneau | [79] |
| Greek Church, Juneau | [81] |
| Indian Chief’s House, Juneau | [83] |
| Summit of the Selkirk Range, at Head of Yukon River. Old Glory Waves Beside the British Flag | [85] |
| The Skagway Enchantress | [89] |
| Skagway, Showing White Pass | [91] |
| Muir Glacier (section of) | [93] |
| Greek Church, Killisnoo | [99] |
| Kitchnatti | [101] |
| Sitka—Soldiers’ Barracks, Old Russian Warehouse and Greek Church on the right, Indian Village on the left, Russian Blockhouses Beyond, and Mission Schools in the Distance. (By permission of F. Laroche, photographer, Seattle, Washington) | [103] |
| Indian Avenue, Sitka | [105] |
| Blockhouse on Bank of Indian River, Sitka, Alaska | [107] |
| Rapids, Indian River, Sitka | [113] |
| Where Whales and Porpoises Poke Their Noses Up Through the Brine | [119] |
| Steamer Queen Leaving Juneau | [133] |
| Alps of America | [135] |
| Government Locks on the Columbia River | [143] |
| Rapids, Columbia River | [145] |
| Farm on the Bank of the Columbia River, Below the Dalles, Oregon | [147] |
| Scene on an Oregon Farm in the Willamette Valley | [151] |
| Roadway in Oregon | [153] |
| Climbing the Shasta Range | [163] |
| The Highest Trestle in the World, near Muir’s Peak, Shasta Range | [165] |
| Mount Shasta. (By permission of F. Laroche, photographer, Seattle, Washington) | [167] |
| Street Scene in Chinatown, San Francisco | [177] |
| Museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco | [181] |
| Early Morning, Yosemite Valley | [189] |
| Wawona Valley | [191] |
| Oldest Log Cabin in the Sequoia Grove, Mariposa County, California. Old Columbia in the Foreground | [193] |
| Half Dome and Merced River | [195] |
| Merced River, Yosemite Valley | [197] |
| Yosemite Falls | [199] |
| El Capitan | [201] |
| Bridal Veil Falls and the Three Brothers (solid rock) | [203] |
| Mirror Lake, Sleeping Water | [205] |
| Yosemite Falls, Showing Floor of the Valley | [207] |
| Sunrise in Yosemite Valley | [209] |
| Entering Hell Gate Cañon | [233] |
| Liberty Cap and Old Fort Yellowstone | [235] |
| Hotel Mammoth, Hot Springs, Yellowstone Park | [237] |
| Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Park, Just Before an Eruption | [239] |
| Yellowstone Lake | [241] |
| Camping on the Shore of Lake Yellowstone | [243] |
| Paint Pots on Shore of Yellowstone Lake | [245] |
| Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone | [247] |
| Gibbon River Falls | [249] |
| Micky and Annie Rooney | [251] |
A Pacific Coast Vacation
CHAPTER I
AUF WIEDERSEHEN
Off to see the land of icebergs and glaciers; the land I have often visited in my imagination. It seems but yesterday that the first geography was put into my hands. O, that dear old geography, the silent companion of my childhood days.
The first page to which I opened pictured an iceberg, with a polar bear walking right up the perpendicular side, and another bold fellow sitting on top as serenely as Patience on a monument.
“What was an iceberg? What were the bears doing on the ice and what did they eat? Was that the sun shining over yonder? Why didn’t it melt the ice and drop the bears into the sea? No, that was not the sun, it was the aurora borealis. Aurora? Who was she and why did she live in that cold, cold country, the home of Hoder, the gray old god of winter?”