Description: Identifier: camplifeinwilder00farr (find matches) Title: Camp life in the wilderness Year: 1879 (1870s) Authors: Farrar, Charles Alden John, d. 1893. (from old catalog) Subjects: Camping Publisher: Boston, A. Williams and company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: On our way we called forthe Guide, who lived a short distance from the hotel,and he accompanied us. The drive to the Cataracts is one of the mostpleasant in the vicinity of Andover, and cannotbut be appreciated by any one having the slightestlove for nature. After driving about four milesfrom the village, you turn off from the road on theleft-hand side, and enter a field, which is mostlyovergrown with bushes. Leaving your team herein the shade of some tree, you proceed the rest ofthe way on foot. The path leads up the side of a mountain, throughbushes and trees, among which the sun strugglesto find an entrance. Up this shady mountain-path you climb slowly, lured on by the musicalmurmur of the silver stream as it calls to youfrom its rocky bed. Anon you turn from the path, and, standing bythe* side of some deep gorge, look down With feel-ings of mingled awe and delight, to behold thewaters of this joyous mountain-river dancing in thesunlight, as, gathered upon the top of some precipi- Text Appearing After Image: Upper Fall, Cataract Brook, Andovek, Me. 214 CAMP LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS. tous rock, they hesitate a moment ere they make themad plunge down, down, into some frightful abyss. This is certainly the prettiest series of cascadesand falls I have ever visited, and in bold and strik-ing approaches and beautiful surroundings they aresuperior to many among the White Mountains. Some of these cataracts have a large volumeof water, which pours over huge precipices, whoseseamed and scarred walls tell of a terrible war withthe elements, and give the impression that sooner orlater they will give up the struggle, and fall a brokenand shapeless mass into the bed of the torrent below. The stream on which this beautiful series of fallsis situated takes its rise in the mountains, underthe shadow of Old Bald Pate, and after flowingsome twelve or fifteen miles among mountains andvalleys, loses itself in the Ellis River. There are cosy nooks along the banks of this pic-turesque rivulet where a poetic dream Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

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Description: Identifier: inalaskanwildern00gord (find matches) Title: In the Alaskan wilderness Year: 1917 (1910s) Authors: Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927 Subjects: Eskimo languages Alaska -- Description and travel Publisher: Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: at countryand we were approaching the tundra and facinga prospect much more desolate and dreary thanthe wild picturesqueness of the upper Kuskokwimand quite different from the high terraces withforests of spruce timber and stretches of openmossy ground that we had with us on the middlereaches of the river. The animal life was alsochanged; the ducks and geese were now rare,but that may have been partly due to theirhaving already migrated south. The eagles,both bald and golden, that we saw very frequentlyall the way from the lake to the Holiknuk, nowdisappeared; the goshawk, a very frequent visitornear our camps farther up, came no longer, andthe magpie, seen about Sikmiut, was absent also.Indeed, there was little animal life of any kindon this stretch of the river. At Sikmiut andlater at Mamtrelich we were told that in formertimes the moose and the caribou came in largenumbers to this country, but that of late yearsthey had not been seen. September ist came in calm and clear with an124 Text Appearing After Image: A KUSKWOGAMIUT MAX, SHOWING LABRETS AND EARRINGS unruffled river stretching away in the brightsunshine and reflecting the banks. As we paddled along, the river spread out untilit seemed miles wide with islands and low head-lands, while the current became imperceptible.It seemed at this point as if we were on a largelake rather than a river. By our calculations we felt that we should benow near the native village of Mamtrelich andthe Bethel Mission, but we were uncertain whetherit would prove to be one days journey or two ormore. Early in the afternoon we saw a smallvillage of three huts on the left bank and paddledtowards it. We found one man at home stand-ing on the shore to meet us as we landed. Hemade the sign of welcome, but that seemed tobe all we could get out of him. By means of mysmall Innuit vocabulary and by gesture we triedto bring it home to this fellow that we wantedto know what was the name of his village, howfar it was to the next village, how far it was toMamtrelich, h Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

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Description: Identifier: wildernessofuppe01shel (find matches) Title: The wilderness of the upper Yukon; a hunter's explorations for wild sheep in sub-arctic mountains Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Sheldon, Charles, 1867-1928 Subjects: Hunting Mountain sheep Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: good meal. August 27.—We knew that some lakes were not farahead, and then the gill-net could be set with a good chanceof catching fish. Early in the morning we started, andin a little over seven and a half hours reached Lewis Lake.The Prevost River enters the Ross about half a mile be-low the outlet of the lake. For that distance from theoutlet the water is broken by shoals and riffles, whileledges of rock occur along the bank. Thousands of deadsalmon were on the rocky bars, and fifty or sixty ravensand two bald eagles were there to enjoy the feast. I wastowing the boat and the wind was blowing down river.A ledge jutted out into the water and I had to wade wellout in order to pass around it, while Jefferies was push-ing the canoe from behind. Heaving on the rope Irounded the rocks and saw on the bar a hundred and fiftyfeet ahead a magnificent male grizzly standing, head up,one forepaw raised from the ground, ears cocked straightup, looking at me. Quickly stooping low, I beckoned to Text Appearing After Image: Towing up the Ross River, August 23. Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

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