By Mary Roberts Rinehart THROUGH GLACIER PARK. Illustrated. K. Illustrated. THE STREET OF SEVEN STARS. THE AFTER HOUSE. Illustrated. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY Boston and New York THROUGH GLACIER PARK SEEING AMERICA FIRST WITH HOWARD EATON [Illustration: THE AUTHOR] THROUGH GLACIER PARK SEEING AMERICA FIRST WITH HOWARD EATON BY MARY ROBERTS RINEHART _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS_ [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1916 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY P. F. COLLIER & SON, INCORPORATED COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY MARY ROBERTS RINEHART ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published May 1916_ _FOREWORD_ _There are many to whom new places are only new pictures. But, after much wandering, this thing I have learned, and I wish I had learned it sooner: that travel is a matter, not only of seeing, but of doing._ _It is much more than that. It is a matter of new human contacts. It is not of places, but of people. What are regions but the setting for life? The desert, without its Arabs, is but the place that God forgot._ _To travel, then, is to do, not only to see. To travel best is to be of the sportsmen of the road. To take a chance, and win; to feel the glow of muscles too long unused; to sleep on the ground at night and find it soft; to eat, not because it is time to eat, but because one's body is clamoring for food; to drink where every stream and river is pure and cold; to get close to the earth and see the stars--this is travel._ CONTENTS I. The Adventurers 3 II. "Fall in" 13 III. The Sporting Chance 21 IV. All in the Game 35 V. "Running Water and Still Pools" 44 VI. The Call 51 VII. The Black Marks 63 VIII. Bears 77 IX. Down the Flathead Rapids 86 ILLUSTRATIONS