ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
The Promised Land Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
A Desert Dawn in New Mexico 4
Santa Fé: the Most Picturesque City between the Oceans 18
Remains of an Ancient Civilisation 24
The Land of the Turquoise Sky 38
Acoma: Supposed Ancient Site and Present Site 40
Acoma as It is To-Day 44
Acoma Hunter Home from the Hunt 48
Acoma Artisans 50
“Dance Mad!” 52
Young Acomans 54
The Education of a Young Hopi 56
The Pyramid-Pueblo of Taos 58
The Passing of the Puncher 64
Where the Roads Run Out and the Trails Begin 72
The Trail of a Thousand Thrills 88
Throwing the Diamond Hitch 90
Scenes in the Motor Journey Through Arizona 98
Not in Catalonia but in California 120
A Modern Version of the Sermon on the Mount 130
Santa Barbara, a City of Contrasts 168
The Mission of Santa Barbara 170
Lake Tahoe from the Slopes of the High Sierras 232
The Yosemite—and a Lady Who Didn’t Know Fear 250
Yosemite Youngsters, White and Red 252
The Greatest Oil Fields in the World 260
Over the Tehachapis 262
The Overland Mail 274
In the Oregon Hinterland 284
“Where Rolls the Oregon” 300
Where Rods Bend Double and Reels Go Whir-r-r-r 324
What the Road-Builders Have Done in Washington 332
The Unexplored Olympics 344
Where the Salmon Come from 348
Outposts of Civilisation 354
Breaking the Wilderness 356
Pack-Horses and a Pack-Dog 358
In the Great, Still Land 362
Sport on Vancouver Island 376
Life at the Back of Beyond 380
Transport on America’s Last Frontier 382
Transport on America’s Last Frontier 384
Scenes on the Cariboo Trail 400
Some Ladies from the Upper Skeena 422
Where No Motor-Car Had Ever Gone: Some Incidents of Mr. Powell’s Journey Through the British Columbian Wilderness 428
Some Siwash Cemeteries 448
Heraldry in the Hinterland 450
A Land of Sublimity and Magnificence and Grandeur, of Gloom and Loneliness and Dread 452
Map of the Far West, from New Mexico to British Columbia, Showing the Route Followed by the Author at end of volume