INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Alaska's Thousand Islands, as seen from Sitka 78 An Alaska Indian House, with Totem Poles 66 Chancel of the Greek Church, Sitka 75 Chilkat Blanket 81 Columbia River, looking Eastward from Rock Bluff Frontispiece Detroit Lake and Hotel Minnesota, Detroit, Minn. 11 Falls of the Gibbon River, National Park 29 Floating Fish Wheel, Columbia River 42 Hotel Tacoma, Tacoma, W. T. 47 Lake Pend d'Oreille, Idaho 33 Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, National Park 21 Mount Hood, from the Head of the Dalles, Columbia River 38 Mount Tacoma, W. T. 44 Old Faithful Geyser, National Park 18 Scenes among the Alaskan Glaciers 89 Scenes in the Inland Passage 59 Sitka, Alaska 72 T'linket Basket Work 68 T'linket Carved Spoons 85 T'linket War Canoe 83 Yellowstone River, National Park 25 FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO PUGET SOUND. "=To the doorways of the West-Wind, To the portals of the Sunset.=" While, in the old world, armies have been contending for the possession of narrow strips of territory, in kingdoms themselves smaller than many single American States, and venerable _savants_ have been predicting the near approach of the time when the population of the world shall have outstripped the means of subsistence, there has arisen, between the headwaters of the Mississippi and the mouth of the stately Columbia, an imperial domain, more than three times the size of the German empire, and capable of sustaining upon its own soil one hundred millions of people. What little has been done--for it is but little, comparatively--toward the development of its amazing resources, has called into existence, on its eastern border, two great and beautiful cities, which have sprung up side by side on the banks of the great Father of Waters.