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By William S. Thomas

Hunting Big Game with Gun and with KodakTrails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland

G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York    London

Mother 'Possum and her Family

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TRAILS AND TRAMPS
IN ALASKA AND
NEWFOUNDLAND

BY

WILLIAM S. THOMAS

AUTHOR OF “HUNTING BIG GAME WITH GUN AND KODAK”

WITH ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SEVENILLUSTRATIONS FROM ORIGINALPHOTOGRAPHS

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
1913

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Copyright, 1913
BY
WILLIAM S. THOMAS

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

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To
MY WIFE
WHO SHARED NONE OF THE PLEASURES OF THE TRAIL AND BORE
ALL THE ANXIETIES FOR MY RETURN.

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PREFACE

The matter here submitted has been accumulatedupon several hunting trips in thewilderness, and many excursions from timeto time into the woods and fields about home.The author has for some years kept more orless extensive field notes, and has taken numerousphotographs of objects, scenes, orincidents by the way.

Not all of the narrative is concerned withthe chase, but all has to do with, or is in someway attributable to, the wanderlust that fromboyhood days has cast its spell over the authorat uncertain intervals, and from time to time,has compelled a pilgrimage nearer or fartherinto the regions of that freedom found onlywhere man is not.

If in the heart of the reader it sets vibratingagain some chord once sounded by the breathof the forest, or stirs to harmony some strings[Pg vi]hitherto not attuned to the music of the greatoutdoors, the mission of this volume will nothave been vain, for it will then have assistedin a modest way the interpretation of thatmedium of expression of which Bryant hassaid,

W. S. T.

Pittsburgh, Pa.,
March, 1913.

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