Through Glacier Park

By Mary Roberts Rinehart

Seeing America First with Howard Eaton. According to Wikipedia: "Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876-September 22, 1958) was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie.[1] She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it", although she did not actually use the phrase herself, and also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing.... Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays, such as The Bat (1920) were adapted for movies, such as The Bat (1926), The Bat Whispers (1930), and The Bat (1959). While many of her books were best-sellers, critics were most appreciative of her murder mysteries. Rinehart, in The Circular Staircase (1908), is credited with inventing the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing. The Circular Staircase is a novel in which "a middle-aged spinster is persuaded by her niece and nephew to rent a country house for the summer. The house they choose belonged to a bank defaulter who had hidden stolen securities in the walls. The gentle, peace-loving trio is plunged into a series of crimes solved with the help of the aunt. This novel is credited with being the first in the "Had-I-But-Known" school."[3] The Had-I-But-Known mystery novel is one where the principal character (frequently female) does less than sensible things in connection with a crime which have the effect of prolonging the action of the novel. Ogden Nash parodied the school in his poem Don't Guess Let Me Tell You: "Sometimes the Had I But Known then what I know now I could have saved at least three lives by revealing to the Inspector the conversation I heard through that fortuitous hole in the floor." The phrase "The butler did it", which has become a cliché, came from Rinehart's novel The Door, in which the butler actually did do it, although that exact phrase does not actually appear in the work."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Seltzer Books
• Release date: Mar 1, 2018
• ISBN: 9781455447855

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Often referred to as the American Agatha Christie, Mary Roberts Rinehart was an American journalist and writer who is best known for the murder mystery The Circular Staircase—considered to have started the “Had-I-but-known” school of mystery writing—and the popular Tish mystery series. A prolific writer, Rinehart was originally educated as a nurse, but turned to writing as a source of income after the 1903 stock market crash. Although primarily a fiction writer, Rinehart served as the Saturday Evening Post’s correspondent for from the Belgian front during the First World War, and later published a series of travelogues and an autobiography. Roberts died in New York City in 1958.

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THROUGH GLACIER PARK, SEEING AMERICA FIRST WITH HOWARD EATON BY MARY ROBERTS RINEHART

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Books by Mary Roberts Rinehart available from Seltzer Books:

Mysteries:

The Man in Lower Ten (1906)

The Circular Staircase (1908)

When A Man Marries (1910)

The Window at the White Cat (1910)

Where There's a Will (1912)

The Case of Jennie Brice (1913)

Street of Seven Stars (1914)

The After House (1914)

Locked Doors (1914)

K (1915)

Long Live the King! (1917)

The Amazing Interlude (1918)

Dangerous Days (1919)

Love Stories (1919)

Truce of God (1920)

Affinities and Other Stories (1920)

A Poor Wise Man (1920)

The Bat, with Avery Hopwood (1920)

The Confession (1921)

Sight Unseen (1921)

The Breaking Point (1922)

Non-Fiction:

Kings, Queens and Pawns: an American Woman at the Front (1915)

Through Glacier Park (1915)

Tenting To-Night : a chronicle of sport and adventure in Glacier park and the Cascade mountains (1918)

Isn't That Just Like a Man! (1920)

Young-Adult Novels:

Bab, a Sub-Deb (1916)

Tish (1916)

More Tish (1921)

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1916

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY P. F. COLLIER & SON, INCORPORATED

COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY MARY ROBERTS RINEHART

Published May 1916

FOREWORD

CHAPTER 1 THE ADVENTURERS

CHAPTER 2 FALL IN

CHAPTER 3 THE SPORTING CHANCE

CHAPTER 4 ALL IN THE GAME

CHAPTER 5 RUNNING WATER AND STILL POOLS

CHAPTER 6 THE CALL

CHAPTER 7 THE BLACK MARKS

CHAPTER 8 BEARS

CHAPTER 9 DOWN THE FLATHEAD RAPIDS

FOREWORD

There are many to whom new places are only new pictures. But, after much wandering, this thing I have learned, and I wish I had learned it sooner: that travel is a matter, not only of seeing, but of doing.

It is much more than that. It is a matter of new human contacts. It is not of places, but of people. What are regions but the setting for life? The desert, without its Arabs, is but the place that God forgot.

To travel, then, is to do, not only to see. To travel best is to be of the sportsmen of the road. To take a chance, and win; to feel the glow of muscles too long unused; to sleep on the ground at night and find it soft; to eat, not because it is time to eat, but because one's body is clamoring for food; to drink where every stream and river is pure and cold; to get close to the earth and see the stars—this is travel.

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CHAPTER 1 THE ADVENTURERS

This is about a three-hundred mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It is about fishing, and cool nights around a camp-fire, and long days on the trail. It is about a party of all sorts, from everywhere, of men and women, old and young, experienced folk and novices, who had yielded to a desire to belong to the sportsmen of the road. And it is by way of being advice also. Your true convert must always preach.

If you are normal and philosophical; if you love your country; if you like bacon, or will eat it anyhow; if you are willing to learn how little you count in the eternal scheme of things; if you are prepared, for the first day or two, to be able to locate every muscle in your body and a few extra ones that seem to have crept in and are crowding, go ride in the Rocky Mountains and save your soul.

If you are of the sort that must have fresh cream in its coffee, and its steak rare, and puts its hair up in curlers at night, and likes to talk gossip in great empty places, don't go. Don't read this. Sit in a moving-picture theater and do your traveling.

But if you go—!

It will not matter that you have never ridden before. The horses are safe and quiet. The Western saddle is designed to keep a cow-puncher in his seat when his rope is around an infuriated steer. Fall