Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

By Mary Roberts Rinehart

This book is a travelog about a three-hundred-mile trip across the Rocky Mountains on horseback with Howard Eaton. It describes many fascinating moments like fishing, cool nights around a campfire, and long days on the trail. The characters of this book are a party of all sorts, from everywhere, of men and women, old and young, experienced folk and novices. The only thing that unites them is a desire to belong to the sportsmen of the road. Being written about 100 years ago, the book is still an interesting read about travel and adventures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: May 29, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547025450

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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Mary Roberts Rinehart

Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton

EAN 8596547025450

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

FOREWORD

ILLUSTRATIONS

THROUGH GLACIER PARK

THROUGH GLACIER PARK

I THE ADVENTURERS

II FALL IN

III THE SPORTING CHANCE

IV ALL IN THE GAME

V RUNNING WATER AND STILL POOLS

VI THE CALL

VII THE BLACK MARKS

VIII BEARS

IX DOWN THE FLATHEAD RAPIDS

FOREWORD

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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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THROUGH GLACIER PARK

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THROUGH GLACIER PARK

I

THE ADVENTURERS

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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 off! For the first day or two, dear traveler, you will have to be extracted! After that you will learn that