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قراءة كتاب A Summer's Outing, and The Old Man's Story
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A Summer's Outing, and The Old Man's Story
A Summer's Outing
AND
THE OLD MAN'S STORY
BY
CARTER H. HARRISON.
CHICAGO:
DIBBLE PUBLISHING CO.
1891.
COPYRIGHTED BY
DIBBLE PUBLISHING CO
1891
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
G. M. D. LIBBY
PRINTER AND ELECTROTYPER
CHICAGO
Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings, contractions and discrepancies have been retained.
The cover of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
PREFACE.
"A Summer's Outing" comprises letters hastily written while the writer was on the wing. Being printed in the Chicago Tribune they were favorably received by many friends, who have urged their being published in book form, as a thing now needed by would-be tourists to the Yellowstone National Park and to Alaska. To this end they were revised and somewhat enlarged. If the little book be of little value, the apology is offered that it will be, too, of little cost.
"The Old Man's Story" is thrown in as filling between two covers, and need not be read except by those who find an idle hour hard to dispose of.
Carter H. Harrison.
231 Ashland Boulevard,
Chicago, May 6th, 1891.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
| INTRODUCTION. | |
| The Writer Indulges in Fancies | 9 |
| LETTER I. | |
| A Run Through Pretty Wisconsin and Minnesota — Beautiful St. Paul — Jealousy Between Twin Cities — An Indignant St. Paul Democrat and a Careless Seattle Man — Dakota and the Dirty Missouri River — A Dissertation on Waste of Land and Destruction of Trees — The Bad Lands — The Yellowstone River — Gateway to National Park and its Guardian Eagle | 15 |
| LETTER II. | |
| The National Park, "The Wonderland of the Globe" — The Home of the Evil One — Steam Vents — Geysers — The Grotto — The Giant — The Bee-Hive — The Castle and Old Faithful in the Upper Geyser Basin | 27 |
| LETTER III. | |
| Mammoth Hot Springs — A Wonderful Formation — The White Elephant — A Theory Accounting for the Hot Springs and Geysers — Mud Geysers — Marvelous Colorings of Some Pools | 45 |
| LETTER IV. | |
| How to do the Park — Hotels and Vehicles — My Innocents — Charming Scenery — Natural Meadows — Wild Animals — Beautiful Flowers — Debts to the Devil — Camp Life and Fishing — Wonderful Canyon — Painted Rocks — Glorious Waterfalls — Nature Grotesque and Beautiful | 59 |
| LETTER V. | |
| We Leave the Park Satisfied — Helena — Its Gold Bearing Foundations — Broadwater — A Magnificent Natatorium — A Wild Ride Through Town — Crossing the Rockies — Spokane — A Busy Town — Midnight Picnic — Fine Agricultural Country — Sage Bush a Blessing — Picturesque Run Over the Cascades — Acres of Malt Liquors — Tacoma — A Startling Vision of Mt. Renier (Tacoma) — Washington, a Great State | 82 |
| LETTER VI. | |
| Thriving and Picturesque Seattle — Two Curious Meetings — Victoria and its Flowers — Esquimault and the Warspite — Two Broken Hearted Girls — Charming Sail on the Island Sea — Picturesque Mountains — Growth of Alaska — Whales and their Sports — Native Alaskans — Their Homes, Habits, Food, Feasts and Wild Music — Baskets and Blankets — Salmon Fisheries — Mines and Dogs | 102 |
| LETTER VII. | |
| Steaming up the Ice-Packed Fiords and Channels of the Arctic Country owned by Uncle Sam — Salmon Canneries — Canoe Building by Natives — Ascent of the "Muir" Glacier, an Ice Cliff 300 Feet High — Fantastic Ice Formations at Takou — Summer and Winter Climates — Impudent Crows and Oratorical Ravens | 134 |
| LETTER VIII. | |
| Vancouver — A Picturesque, Growing City — A Run over the Canadian Pacific — Magnificent Scenery met with from the Start — A Glorious Ride — Fraser River Glutted with Salmon — A Never-Tiring View from Glacier House, Four Thousand Feet above the Sea — Rugged, Precipitous Grandeur of the Selkirks and Rockies — Natural Beauties of Banff — Reflections at the "Soo." | 162 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| The St. Mary's River — Charming Scenery — The Locality for Summer Homes — An Episode — Mackinaw — Grand Rapids, a Beautiful City | 196 |
| PART II. | |
| "THE OLD MAN'S STORY." | |
| The Secret of the Big Rock | 203 |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Carter H. Harrison, (Frontispiece.) | ||
| Terrace, Mammoth Hot Springs | Page | |