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Title: The Young Alaskans in the Rockies

Author: Emerson Hough

Release Date: January 20, 2009 [EBook #27850]

Language: English

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THE
YOUNG ALASKANS
IN THE ROCKIES

BY
EMERSON HOUGH

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
MCMXIII

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1913

[Illustration: A TRAPPER'S SHACK, STANDING AT THE EDGE OF THE
BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN LAKE WHICH LAY GREEN AND MIRROR-LIKE, SURROUNDED ON
ALL SIDES BY GREAT MOUNTAIN WALLS]

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. ROB, JOHN, AND JESSE IN CAMP 9
II. AT THE FIRESIDE 18
III. HITTING THE TRAIL 28
IV. WESTWARD HO 48
V. HIGHER THAN THE ROCKIES 54
VI. THE ATHABASCA AT LAST 63
VII. CROSSING THE ATHABASCA 68
VII. IN HIGH ALTITUDES 78
IX. THE HEART OF THE MOUNTAINS 85
X. RAINBOW LAKE 91
XI. THE PASS 102
XII. THE WILDERNESS 116
XIII. AFTER THE WHITE GOATS 126
XIV. DOWN THE FRASER 144
XV. THE GREAT MOUNTAIN 156
XVI. AT THE TETE JAUNE CACHE 162
XVII. LEO THE GRIZZLY-HUNTER 172
XVIII. SOUTHWARD BOUND