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Title: Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska

Author: Charles Warren Stoddard

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Language: English

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Over the Rocky Mountains to 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 the
privilege of republishing these notes of travel and adventure.

CONTENTS.

Chapter. Page.
I. Due West to Denver 7
II. In Denver Town 18
III. The Garden of the Gods 29
IV. A Whirl across the Rockies 40
V. Off for Alaska 47
VI. In the Inland Sea 56
VII. Alaskan Village Life 66
VIII. Juneau 74
IX. By Solitary Shores 86
X. In Search of the Totem-Pole 98
XI. In the Sea of Ice 111
XII. Alaska's Capital 124
XIII. Katalan's Rock 136
XIV. From the Far North 148
XV. Out of the Arctic 159

CHAPTER I.

Due West to Denver.

Commencement week at Notre Dame ended in a blaze of gl