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Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska By: Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) |
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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 glory. Multitudes of
guests who had been camping for a night or two in the recitation
rooms our temporary dormitories gave themselves up to the boyish
delights of school life, and set numerous examples which the students
were only too glad to follow. The boat race on the lake was a picture;
the champion baseball match, a companion piece; but the highly decorated
prize scholars, glittering with gold and silver medals, and badges of
satin and bullion; the bevies of beautiful girls who for once once only
in the year were given the liberty of the lawns, the campus, and the
winding forest ways, that make of Notre Dame an elysium in summer; the
frequent and inspiring blasts of the University Band, and the general
joy that filled every heart to overflowing, rendered the last day of the
scholastic year romantic to a degree and memorable forever. There was no sleep during the closing night not one solitary wink; all
laws were dead letters alas that they should so soon arise again from
the dead! and when the wreath of stars that crowns the golden statue of
Our Lady on the high dome, two hundred feet in air, and the
wide sweeping crescent under her shining feet, burst suddenly into
flame, and shed a lustre that was welcomed for miles and miles over the
plains of Indiana then, I assure you, we were all so deeply touched
that we knew not whether to laugh or to weep, and I shall not tell you
which we did. The moon was very full that night, and I didn't blame it! But the picnic really began at the foot of the great stairway in front
of the dear old University next morning. Five hundred possible
presidents were to be distributed broadcast over the continent; five
hundred sons and heirs to be returned with thanks to the yearning bosoms
of their respective families. The floodgates of the trunk rooms were
thrown open, and a stream of Saratogas went thundering to the station at
South Bend, two miles away. Hour after hour, and indeed for several
days, huge trucks and express wagons plied to and fro, groaning under
the burden of well checked luggage. It is astonishing to behold how big
a trunk a mere boy may claim for his very own; but it must be remembered
that your schoolboy lives for several years within the brass bound
confines of a Saratoga. It is his bureau, his wardrobe, his private
library, his museum and toy shop, the receptacle of all that is near and
dear to him; it is, in brief, his sanctum sanctorum , the one inviolate
spot in his whole scholastic career of which he, and he alone, holds the
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