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SEEING THE WEST
WESTBOUND TRAVELLER
The Yosemite Valley
Seeing the West
Suggestions for the
Westbound Traveller
By
K. E. M. Dumbell
Frontispiece
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY JAMES POTT & COMPANY
“I knew it would call, or soon or late, a it calls the whirring wings,
It’s the olden lure, it’s the golden lure, it’s the lure of the timeless things.”
R. W. Service.
The author begs to acknowledge, withthanks, the courtesy of the publishersand others named below for their kindnessin granting her permission to use the extractsfrom their publications incorporatedin this book:
The Century Company,
Messrs. Barse & Hopkins,
The American Forestry Association,
The U. S. Department of the Interior,
The Western Guidebook Company,
Mr. George Perkins Merrill,
The Western chambers of commerce, and the various railroads.
The extracts from Mr. John Muir andMr. J. G. Percival are published by permissionof, and by special arrangementwith, Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company,publishers of their works.
To Mr. Robert Sterling Yard, ExecutiveSecretary of the National Parks Association,especial thanks are extended for hisinterest and assistance and the permissionto quote freely from his most valuablebook, “The Book of National Parks.”