William S. Thomas
Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066128005
Table of Contents
Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland CHAPTER I CRUISING AND HUNTING IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
CHAPTER II OBSERVATIONS ON KODIAK ISLAND
CHAPTER III HUNTING BIG GAME ON THE KENAI PENINSULA
CHAPTER IV A TRIP TO NEWFOUNDLAND
CHAPTER V HUNTING WITH A FERRET
CHAPTER VIII A PLEA FOR PROTECTION
The Log of the North Shore Club
Recreations of a Sportsman on the Pacific Coast
Hunting Big Game with Gun and with Kodak
PREFACE
The matter here submitted has been accumulated upon several hunting trips in the wilderness, and many excursions from time to time into the woods and fields about home. The author has for some years kept more or less extensive field notes, and has taken numerous photographs of objects, scenes, or incidents by the way.
Not all of the narrative is concerned with the chase, but all has to do with, or is in some way attributable to, the wanderlust that from boyhood days has cast its spell over the author at uncertain intervals, and from time to time, has compelled a pilgrimage nearer or farther into the regions of that freedom found only where man is not.
If in the heart of the reader it sets vibrating again some chord once sounded by the breath of the forest, or stirs to harmony some strings hitherto not attuned to the music of the great outdoors, the mission of this volume will not have been vain, for it will then have assisted in a modest way the interpretation of that medium of expression of which Bryant has said,
“To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A varied language.”
W. S. T.
Pittsburgh, Pa.,
March, 1913.
ILLUSTRATIONS
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| Mother ’Possum and her Family | Frontispiece |
| Ketchikan | 3 |
| Myriads of Salmon | 5 |
| “Father” Duncan | 7 |
| Metlakatla | 8 |
| Guest House | 9 |
| “Father” Duncan’s Church | 10 |
| Where the Indians Roamed | 11 |
| Street Scene in Metlakatla | 12 |
| Metlakatla Belles | 13 |
| Indians Cheering the Secretary | 15 |
| Totems at Sitka | 18 |
| Indian War Canoe | 20 |
| Petersburg | 22 |
| Streams of Crystal Water | 23 |
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Lighthouse
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