Preface | ||
Part I. The Trip of 1879 |
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I. | Puget Sound and British Columbia | 3 |
II. | Alexander Archipelaco and the Home I found in Alaska | 13 |
III. | Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers | 25 |
IV. | The Stickeen River | 44 |
V. | A Cruise in the Cassiar | 56 |
VI. | The Cassiar Trail | 76 |
VII. | Glenora Peak | 87 |
VIII. | Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers | 97 |
IX. | A Canoe Voyage to Northward | 114 |
X. | The Discovery of Glacier Bay | 140 |
XI. | The Country of the Chilcats | 161 |
XII. | The Return to Fort Wrangell | 178 |
XIII. | Alaska Indians | 197 |
Part II. The Trip of 1880 |
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XIV. | Sum Dum Bay | 207 |
XV. | From Taku River to Taylor Bay | 234 |
XVI. | Glacier Bay | 258 |
Part III. The Trip of 1890 |
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XVII. | In Camp at Glacier Bay | 273 |
XVIII. | My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier | 294 |
XIX. | Auroras | 312 |
Index | 319 | |
Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon | 329 |
Alpenglow on Summit of Mt. Muir, Harrison Fiord, Prince William Sound | Frontispiece |
Hanging Valley and Waterfall, Fraser Ranch | 14 |
Lowe Inlet, British Columbia | 18 |
Indian Canoes | 30 |
Alaskan Hemlocks and Spruces, Sitka | 62 |
Old Chief and Totem Pole, Wrangell | 72 |
Admiralty Island | 128 |
The Muir Glacier in the Seventies, showing Ice Cliffs and Stranded Icebergs
From a photograph owned by Mr. Muir |
158 |
Stranded Icebergs, Taku Glacier | 182 |
Vegetation at High-Tide Line, Sitka Harbor | 212 |
Ruins of Buried Forest, East Side of Muir Glacier
From a photograph owned by Mr. Muir |
292 |
Floating Iceberg, Taku Inlet | 312 |
[ “Voyages of Muir and Young, 1879-1880 in Southeastern Alaska,” map from Alaska Days with John Muir (New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1915)] |
Except as otherwise indicated the illustrations are from photographs by Herbert W. Gleason.
Travels in Alaska
by
John Muir
with illustrations
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1915
[A painting of the Muir Glacier by Thomas Hill, owned by Mr. Muir.
From the book cover.] |
Copyright, 1915, by Houghton Mifflin Company
All Rights Reserved
Published November 1915
Muir, John (1838-1914). Travels in Alaska (Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin co., 1915). 326 pp., front., plates. 21 cm. Library of Congress Call Number F908.M95. LCCN 15026894.
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