Category: Travel Writing
THE GENTLE ART OF TRAMPING THE DIVIDING LINE OF EUROPE IN QUEST OF EL DORADO TRAMPING WITH A POET IN THE ROCKIES EUROPE--WHITHER BOUND? THE CHALLENGE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN OF THE SLAVES A PRIVATE IN THE GUARDS THE QUEST OF THE FACE RUSSIA IN 1916 PRIEST OF THE IDEAL THROUGH RUS...
THE GENTLE ART OF TRAMPING THE DIVIDING LINE OF EUROPE IN QUEST OF EL DORADO TRAMPING WITH A POET IN THE ROCKIES EUROPE--WHITHER BOUND? THE CHALLENGE OF THE DEAD CHILDREN OF THE...
2. Part 2GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, which we passed through first, is a preserve. It is God’s holy mountain on which no man may shoot. By the laws you are not allowed even to frighten a bird...
3. Part 3So I fastened my fat green wooden gentleman to the gut, and the gut to the line, and attaching a stone, flung him in the air. Behold, he flew like a grasshopper and disported wi...
4. Part 4“California,” says he, “is a whale swimming around the desert of Nevada; Idaho is a mountain throne and its curve is the curve of Montana. Wyoming fits into the angle of Utah. N...
5. Part 5One’s eyes naturally rest on the ladies, who are nearly all in seeming male attire, and some of this attire fits and some does not; some of it suggests homes where men are rare...
6. Part 6WE came to the top of the Valley of Boulder Creek, stretching away from the heart of the Rockies to the tents of the Indians and the indeterminate plains, one of the grandest of...
7. Part 7And we washed off our politics from our minds at high noon in a river. And Vachel sat astride of a giant tree that had fallen across the stream, and luxuriating in the heat he c...
8. Part 8But the ground under us was in slops of water, and rather than sit and shiver there for hours I was all for getting out, and still believed it possible. This faith or stubbornne...
9. Part 9“I’d like you to think of Lincoln as a poor man,” said Vachel, “an eccentric--laughed at, sneered at a great deal, entirely underestimated, a man who was a mystic, who believed...
10. Part 10“We’ll see,” I answered. “Canadians are subjects of a monarch; Americans are citizens of a Republic. Canadians look to the King. More than a mere line divides the two halves of...
11. Part 11WHAT a beaten-down and untidy place a Reservation is, strewn with jetsam from the wigwam, hoofed till not a flower remains! The Indians spend more time on horseback than on foot...
12. Part 12WE crossed the line again and returned to the United States. And then we went to the city of St. Paul, and we saw the falls where Minnehaha and Hiawatha met. We stood on the hig...