THE MOUNTAINS

BY

STEWART EDWARD WHITE

AUTHOR OF
"THE BLAZED TRAIL," "SILENT PLACES," "THE FOREST," ETC.

PREFACE

The author has followed a true sequence of events practically in all particulars save in respect to the character of the Tenderfoot. He is in one sense fictitious; in another sense real. He is real in that he is the apotheosis of many tenderfeet, and that everything he does in this narrative he has done at one time or another in the author's experience. He is fictitious in the sense that he is in no way to be identified with the third member of our party in the actual trip.

CONTENTS

I. [THE RIDGE TRAIL]
II. [ON EQUIPMENT]
III. [ON HORSES]
IV. [HOW TO GO ABOUT IT]
V. [THE COAST RANGES]
VI. [THE INFERNO]
VII. [THE FOOT-HILLS]
VIII. [THE PINES]
IX. [THE TRAIL]
X. [ON SEEING DEER]
XI. [ON TENDERFEET]
XII. [THE CAÑON]
XIII. [TROUT, BUCKSKIN, AND PROSPECTORS]
XIV. [ON CAMP COOKERY]
XV. [ON THE WIND AT NIGHT]
XVI. [THE VALLEY]
XVII. [THE MAIN CREST]
XVIII. [THE GIANT FOREST]
XIX. [ON COWBOYS]
XX. [THE GOLDEN TROUT]
XXI. [ON GOING OUT]
XXII. [THE LURE OF THE TRAIL]

THE MOUNTAINS