Chapter I: Front Matter

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SEEING THE WEST

Suggestions for the Westbound Traveller

SEEING THE WEST

Suggestions for the Westbound Traveller

by

K. E. M. Dumbell

Frontispiece

Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1920

Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page & Company All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1914, by James Pott & Company

“I knew it would call, or soon or late, a it calls the
whirring wings,
It’s the olden lure, it’s the golden lure, it’s the
lure of the timeless things.”

R. W. Service.

AUTHOR’S NOTE

The author begs to acknowledge, with thanks, the courtesy of the publishers and others named below for their kindness in granting her permission to use the extracts from their publications incorporated in this book:

The Century Company, Messrs. Barse & Hopkins, The American Forestry Association, The U. S. Department of the Interior, The Western Guidebook Company, Mr. George Perkins Merrill, The Western chambers of commerce, and the various railroads.

The extracts from Mr. John Muir and Mr. J. G. Percival are published by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers of their works.

To Mr. Robert Sterling Yard, Executive Secretary of the National Parks Association, especial thanks are extended for his interest and assistance and the permission to quote freely from his most valuable book, “The Book of National Parks.”

CONTENTS

PART ONE

The Southern Rockies

I. The Rocky Mountain National Park

II. Colorado Springs and Pike’s Peak

III. Salt Lake City and the Zion National Park

PART TWO

The Northern Rockies

I. The Canadian Rockies

II. Glacier National Park and the Yellowstone National Park

PART THREE

The Northwest

I. Alaska and Crater Lake National Park

II. Mount Rainier National Park

III. Lake Chelan and the Columbia River Region

PART FOUR

California

I. Northern California

II. Central California

III. San Francisco and Environs

IV. Southern California

PART FIVE

The Southwest

I. The Grand Canyon

II. Historic Places in New Mexico and Arizona

Reference Books

Index