Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage. John Thomas Hyde
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John Hyde, Frederick Schwatka
Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage
With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066158934
Table of Contents
From the Great Lakes to Puget Sound.
THE MAIN RANGE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.
Alaska and the Inland Passage.
Index to illustrations.
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Alaska's Thousand Islands, as seen from Sitka | 78 |
An Alaska Indian House, with Totem Poles | 66 |
Chancel of the Greek Church, Sitka | 75 |
Chilkat Blanket | 81 |
Columbia River, looking Eastward from Rock Bluff | Frontispiece |
Detroit Lake and Hotel Minnesota, Detroit, Minn. | 11 |
Falls of the Gibbon River, National Park | 29 |
Floating Fish Wheel, Columbia River | 42 |
Hotel Tacoma, Tacoma, W. T. | 47 |
Lake Pend d'Oreille, Idaho | 33 |
Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, National Park | 21 |
Mount Hood, from the Head of the Dalles, Columbia River | 38 |
Mount Tacoma, W. T. | 44 |
Old Faithful Geyser, National Park | 18 |
Scenes among the Alaskan Glaciers | 89 |
Scenes in the Inland Passage | 59 |
Sitka, Alaska | 72 |
T'linket Basket Work | 68 |
T'linket Carved Spoons | 85 |
T'linket War Canoe | 83 |
Yellowstone River, National Park | 25 |
From the Great Lakes to Puget Sound.
“To the doorways of the West-Wind,
To the portals of the Sunset.”
hile, in the old world, armies have been contending for the possession of narrow strips of territory, in kingdoms themselves smaller than many single American States, and venerable savants have been predicting the near approach of the time when the population of the world shall have outstripped the means of subsistence, there has arisen, between the headwaters of the Mississippi and the mouth of the stately Columbia, an imperial domain, more than three times the size of the German empire, and capable of sustaining upon its own soil one hundred millions of people. What little has been done—for it is but little, comparatively—toward the development of its