32. Alaska, Its Meaning to the World, Its Resources, Its Opportunities. (1914.) Charles R. Tuttle. A good deal of space is given to the history of the Government railway legislation. It lauds the energy of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce which conducted a successful lobby in Washington city during the anxious months while the Alaska railway bill hung fire in Congress.
33. Alaska, the Great Country. (1908.) Ella Higginson. This third book is by a lady whom many love to call "our foremost story-teller and sweetest singer." It is most personal, crowded with real adventures, some of them humorous, which the reader shares vividly. Mrs. Higginson says, "No one writer has ever described Alaska. No one writer can ever describe it, but each must do his share according to the spell the country casts upon him." Her description is bright and fascinating. She is now revising it and bringing it up to date for a new edition.
34. American Fur Trade of the Far West. (1902.) Hiram Martin Chittenden.
35. Yellowstone National Park, Historical and Descriptive. Same author.
No. 34 is a history of the pioneer trading posts and early fur companies of the Missouri River and Rocky Mountains and of overland commerce.
No. 35 is the author's best known work. A fifth edition was published in 1905. No man has had a better opportunity to know the Yellowstone than Gen. Chittenden who was in charge of the government work there and no writer more evenly combines the scientific mind of the practical engineer with the charm of a poetic and artistic observer. To read this is next best to seeing the park.
36. The City That Made Itself; A Literary and Pictorial Record of the Building of Seattle. (1914.) Welford Beaton. Printed in a choice leatherbound silk-lined finely illustrated edition of three hundred copies which readily found their way to the libraries of the well-to-do. The book tells of the hills that have been laid low, of the valleys that have been filled, the tide flats that have been redeemed, of the street car lines and electric development. One chapter on the "Ladies Library Association" shows how women laid the foundation of the public library. Another chapter describes the architecture of the metropolis "from log cabin to sky scraper."
37. Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage. (1911.) Carrie Adell Strahorn. A woman's unique experience during thirty years of pathfinding and pioneering from the Missouri River to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico. An unusually interesting narration of the days when travel was beset with different if not more dangers than today. The book is put out attractively with 350 illustrations.
38. Guardians of the Columbia. (1912.) John H. Williams.
39. The Mountain That Was God. (1910.) Same author.