Travels in Alaska

• Main Author: Muir, John, 1838-1914.
• Other Authors: Parsons, Marion Randall, Mrs., Gleason, Herbert W., Hill, Thomas.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston 1915
• Subjects: Muir; John; 1838-1914 > Travel > Alaska; Natural history > Alaska; Naturalist > United States > Biography; Conservationists > United States > Biography; Alaska > Description and travel; Cassiar; Fraser Reach; Glacier Bay; Glenora; Indian; Lowe; Lowe Inlet; Randall; Taku; Taku River; Thomas Hill; Archipelago; glacier; glaciers; Wrangell Island; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10605/238

The Riverside Press Cambridge. This book is part of the Natural History Collection, a book collection which supports the James Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural World. Prepared for publication by Mrs. Marion Randall Parsons. Illustrations: Alpenglow on summit of Mt. Muir, Harrison Fiord, Prince William Sound -- Hanging Valley and waterfall, Fraser Reach -- Lowe Inlet, British Columbia -- Indian canoes -- Alaskan hemlocks and spruces, Sitka -- Old chief and totem pole, Wrangell -- Admirality Island -- The Muir Glacier in the seventies, showing ice cliffes and stranded icebergs (from a photograph owned by Mr. Muir) -- Stranded icebergs, Taku Glacier -- Vegetation at high-tide line, Stika Harbor -- Ruins of buried forest, east side of Muir Glacier (from a photograph owned by Mr. Muir) -- Floating iceberg, Taku Inlet. Except where otherwise indicated the illustrations are from photographs by Herbert W. Gleason. The colored half-tone which appears on the cover is from a painting of the Muir Glacier by Thomas Hill, owned by Mr. Muir. Part I. The Trip of 1879. Puget Sound and British Columbia -- Alexander Archipelago and the home I found in Alaska -- Wrangell Island and Alaska summers -- The Stickeen River -- A cruise in the Cassiar -- The Cassiar Trail -- Glenora Peak -- Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers -- A canoe voyage to northward -- The discovery of Glacier Bay -- The country of the chilcats -- The return to Fort Wrangell -- Alaska Indians. Part II. The Trip of 1880. Sum Dum Bay -- From Taku River to Taylor Bay -- Glacier Bay -- In camp at Glacier Bay -- My sled-trip on the Muir Glacier -- Auroras -- Index -- Glossary of words in the Chinook jargon.