THE PACK TRAIN ABOVE TIMBER LINE 118 From a photo by Belmore Browne "THE HUMES GLACIER, OVER WHICH WE WENT TO MOUNT OLYMPUS" 128 "OUR NATURE-MADE CAMP IN ELWHA BASIN" 128 THE "GOD MOUNTAIN" OF PUGET SOUND 132 Copyright 1910 by L. G. Linkletter "THE LIVE OAKS OF BERKELEY'S CAMPUS" 156 From a photograph by Wells Drury, Berkeley, Cal. LOOKING ACROSS THE CLOUDS TO MOUNT ADAMS FROM THE FLANKS OF RAINIER 156 Copyright 1909 by L. G. Linkletter "WE GLORIED IN THE SHEER MIGHTINESS OF EL CAPITAN" 158 "A VAST FLOWER GARDEN MAINTAINED ENTICINGLY BY DAME NATURE" 160 Copyright 1912 by Kiser Photo Co., Portland, Ore. LIGHT AND SHADOW IN YOSEMITE 160 SUNRISE AT HETCH-HETCHY 164 THE GOVERNMENT ROAD THAT LEADS TO MOUNT RAINIER 164 In the Oregon Country CHAPTER I "Out West" "What is the most pronounced difference between East and West?" A Bostonian once asked me that. I was East after a year or two of westerning, and he seemed to think it would be easy enough to answer off-hand. But for the life of me I could find no fit reply. For a time that is--and then it struck me. "Everyone is proud of everything out West," said I. "Local patriotism is a religion--if you know what I mean." You who have lived on the Pacific Slope will understand. You who have visited the Pacific Slope will half-understand. Did you ever hear of a New Jersey man fighting because his town was maligned? You never did! Have you yet encountered a York State small-town dweller who would devote hours to proving that his community was destined to outdistance all its neighbors because God had been especially good to it--and ready to back his boast to the limit? No indeed! Yet most of us have seen Westerners actually come to blows protecting the fair name of their chosen town, and I know scores of them who can, and will, on the slightest provocation, demonstrate that their particular Prosperity Center is the coming city of destiny.