Travels in Alaska

by John Muir

	Preface Map of John Muir's Travels in Alaska

	Part I. The Trip of 1879

I.	Puget Sound and British Columbia	3
II.	Alexander Archipelaco and the Home I found in Alaska	13
III.	Wrangell Island and Alaska Summers	25
IV.	The Stickeen River	44
V.	A Cruise in the Cassiar	56
VI.	The Cassiar Trail	76
VII.	Glenora Peak	87
VIII.	Exploration of the Stickeen Glaciers	97
IX.	A Canoe Voyage to Northward	114
X.	The Discovery of Glacier Bay	140
XI.	The Country of the Chilcats	161
XII.	The Return to Fort Wrangell	178
XIII.	Alaska Indians	197

	Part II. The Trip of 1880

XIV.	Sum Dum Bay	207
XV.	From Taku River to Taylor Bay	234
XVI.	Glacier Bay	258

	Part III. The Trip of 1890

XVII.	In Camp at Glacier Bay	273
XVIII.	My Sled-Trip on the Muir Glacier	294
XIX.	Auroras	312

	Index	319
	Glossary of Words in the Chinook Jargon	329

Illustrations

Alpenglow on Summit of Mt. Muir, Harrison Fiord, Prince William Sound	Frontispiece
Hanging Valley and Waterfall, Fraser Ranch	14
Lowe Inlet, British Columbia	18
Indian Canoes	30
Alaskan Hemlocks and Spruces, Sitka	62
Old Chief and Totem Pole, Wrangell	72
Admiralty Island	128
The Muir Glacier in the Seventies, showing Ice Cliffs and Stranded Icebergs From a photograph owned by Mr. Muir	158
Stranded Icebergs, Taku Glacier	182
Vegetation at High-Tide Line, Sitka Harbor	212
Ruins of Buried Forest, East Side of Muir Glacier From a photograph owned by Mr. Muir	292
Floating Iceberg, Taku Inlet	312
[ "Voyages of Muir and Young, 1879-1880 in Southeastern Alaska," map from Alaska Days with John Muir (New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1915)]

Except as otherwise indicated the illustrations are from photographs by Herbert W. Gleason.
The colored half-tone which appears on the cover is from a painting of the Muir Glacier by Thomas Hill, owned by Mr. Muir.

Travels in Alaska

John Muir

with illustrations

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1915

[A painting of the Muir Glacier by Thomas Hill, owned by Mr. Muir.
From the book cover.]

[Scanned and converted to HTML by Dan E. Anderson, from a copy in the UCI Library.]

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