E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 57190-h.htm or 57190-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57190/57190-h/57190-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57190/57190-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/seeingwestsugges00dumbuoft SEEING THE WEST Suggestions for the Westbound Traveller [Illustration: The Yosemite Valley] SEEING THE WEST Suggestions for the Westbound Traveller by K. E. M. Dumbell Frontispiece Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1920 Copyright, 1920, by Doubleday, Page & Company All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian Copyright, 1914, by James Pott & Company “I knew it would call, or soon or late, a it calls the whirring wings, It’s the olden lure, it’s the golden lure, it’s the lure of the timeless things.” R. W. Service. AUTHOR’S NOTE The author begs to acknowledge, with thanks, the courtesy of the publishers and others named below for their kindness in granting her permission to use the extracts from their publications incorporated in this book: The Century Company, Messrs. Barse & Hopkins, The American Forestry Association, The U. S. Department of the Interior, The Western Guidebook Company, Mr. George Perkins Merrill, The Western chambers of commerce, and the various railroads. The extracts from Mr. John Muir and Mr. J. G. Percival are published by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers of their works. To Mr. Robert Sterling Yard, Executive Secretary of the National Parks Association, especial thanks are extended for his interest and assistance and the permission to quote freely from his most valuable book, “The Book of National Parks.” CONTENTS PART ONE The Southern Rockies I. The Rocky Mountain National Park II. Colorado Springs and Pike’s Peak III. Salt Lake City and the Zion National Park PART TWO The Northern Rockies I. The Canadian Rockies II. Glacier National Park and the Yellowstone National Park PART THREE The Northwest I. Alaska and Crater Lake National Park II. Mount Rainier National Park III. Lake Chelan and the Columbia River Region PART FOUR California I. Northern California II. Central California III. San Francisco and Environs IV. Southern California PART FIVE The Southwest I. The Grand Canyon II. Historic Places in New Mexico and Arizona Reference Books Index INTRODUCTION