Over the Rocky Mountainsto Alaska
BY
CHARLES WARREN STODDARD
Third Edition
ST. LOUIS, MO., 1914
Published by B. HERDER
17 South Broadway
FREIBURG (BADEN)Germany
LONDON, W. C.68 Great Russell Str.
Copyright, 1899, by Joseph Gummersbach.
—BECKTOLD—
PRINTING AND BOOK MFG. CO.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
To
KENNETH O'CONNOR,
First-District-of-Columbia Volunteers,
Gen'l Shafter's Fifth Army Corps,
Santiago de Cuba:
In Memory of Our Home-life In
The Bungalow.
NOTE.
The Author returns thanks to the Editor of the Ave Maria for theprivilege of republishing these notes of travel and adventure.
CONTENTS.
- Due West to Denver 7
- In Denver Town 18
- The Garden of the Gods 29
- A Whirl across the Rockies 40
- Off for Alaska 47
- In the Inland Sea 56
- Alaskan Village Life 66
- Juneau 74
- By Solitary Shores 86
- In Search of the Totem-Pole 98
- In the Sea of Ice 111
- Alaska's Capital 124
- Katalan's Rock 136
- From the Far North 148
- Out of the Arctic 159
Chapter I.[7]
Due West to Denver.
Commencement week at Notre Dame ended in a blaze of glory. Multitudes ofguests who had been camping for a night or two in the recitationrooms—our temporary dormitories—gave themselves up to the boyishdelights of school-life, and set numerous examples which the studentswere only too glad to follow. The boat race on the lake was a picture;the champion baseball match, a companion piece; but the highly decoratedprize scholars, glittering with gold and silver medals, and badges ofsatin and bullion; the bevies of beautiful girls who for once—once onlyin the year—were given the liberty of the lawns, the campus, and thewinding forest ways, that make of Notre Dame an elysium in summer; thefrequent and inspiring blasts of the University Band, and the generaljoy that filled every heart to overflowing, rendered the last day of thescholastic year romantic to a degree and memorable forever....