Yellowstone Park and Alaska

ANOTHER SUMMER
THE YELLOWSTONE PARK
AND
ALASKA

BY
CHARLES J. GILLIS

Printed for
Private Distribution

Copyright, 1893, by
CHARLES J. GILLIS.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York

The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusionimpressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soulever does in this world is to see something and tell whatit saw in a plain way.—Ruskin.

With the Compliments
of the Author.

PREFACE.

In the spring of 1892, a party was made up for a trip to Alaska. Thedifferent members thereof were to cross the continent by such routesas they pleased, and meet at Portland, Oregon, on the second of July.This plan was followed, and all the party boarded the steamer Queenat Tacoma, prepared for the journey of a thousand miles up the coastof Alaska.

Some account of this, and also of an excursion to the YellowstonePark, made on the way westward, is given in the following pages.

CONTENTS.