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James Edwin Mrs. Morris. A Pacific Coast Vacation
A Pacific Coast Vacation
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
CHAPTER I. AUF WIEDERSEHEN
CHAPTER II. PLENTY OF ROOM
CHAPTER III. OFF FOR ALASKA
CHAPTER IV. FIRST VIEWS
CHAPTER V. FURTHER GLIMPSES
CHAPTER VI. GOLD FIELDS
CHAPTER VII. MUIR GLACIER
CHAPTER VIII. SITKA
CHAPTER IX. ALASKA
CHAPTER X. FAREWELL TO SKAGWAY
CHAPTER XI. WASHINGTON AND OREGON
CHAPTER XII. OFF FOR CALIFORNIA
CHAPTER XIII. SAN FRANCISCO
CHAPTER XIV. CALIFORNIA FARMS AND VINEYARDS
CHAPTER XV. YOSEMITE
CHAPTER XVI. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
CHAPTER XVII. HERE AND THERE ON THE COAST
CHAPTER XVIII. WALLA WALLA VALLEY
CHAPTER XIX. HISTORICAL REFERENCES
CHAPTER XX. YELLOWSTONE PARK
Footnote
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James Edwin Mrs. Morris
Published by Good Press, 2021
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A beautiful morning in June finds us aboard the Great Northern Flyer, bound for the Pacific coast. We were soon up on the river bluffs. Here is some fine farming land, the only drawback being the lack of well water. The geological formation is entirely different from that of Indiana and Illinois, where water may be had on the bluffs as easily as lower down toward the riverbed. Here the underground water current lies on a level with the bed of the river and a well must go down five or six hundred feet through the bluff before water is obtained.
Our route here follows the Mississippi, which in places is jammed with rafts of logs on their way down to the saw mills. Each log bears the owner’s mark. One sees many logs, big fellows worth ten or fifteen dollars, which have slipped from their rafts and like independent boys, get lost in all sorts of places.
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