Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage. John Thomas Hyde

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

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066158934

       Index to illustrations.

       From the Great Lakes to Puget Sound.

       LAKE PARK REGION,

       GREAT WHEAT FARMS

       YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.

       WESTWARD STILL.

       THE MAIN RANGE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.

       LAKE PEND D'OREILLE.

       PORTLAND.

       LOWER COLUMBIA

       TO PUGET SOUND.

       Alaska and the Inland Passage.

       Table of Contents

PAGE
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

       Table of Contents

      “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


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