The western Avernus : or, Toil and travel in further North America
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is part of: Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
creator: Roberts, Morley, 1857-1942
issued: 2015-06
issued: 1887
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extent: 307 pages : folded map ; 21 cm
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note: IS w ^ -o-f tip wrttet^tf^ ||| a*. (k 11 X £> THE WESTERN AVERNUS OR TOIL AND TRAVEL IN FURTHER NORTH AMERICA BY MORLEY ROBERTS LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE i8§7 12479 All rights reserved TO MY FRIENDS THE AUTHORS OF ' THYRZA' AND 'THE CRYSTAL AGE' CONTENTS. chapter I. In Texas II. BULL-PUNCHING III. Iowa and Minnesota IV. In St. Paul V. To Manitoba and the Rockies . VI. The Kicking Horse Pass VII. The Railroad Camps VIII. The Columbia Crossing . . ... IX. The Trail across the Selkirks X. The Golden Range and the Shushwap Lakes XI. Round Kamloops XII. Through the Fraser Canon .... XIII. Down Stream to the Coast XIV. New Westminster XV. Back Tracks to Eagle Pass XVI. To Vancouver Island and Victoria XVII. Mount Tacoma Overhead .... XVIII. Oregon Underfoot XIX. Across the Coast Range .... XX. In San Francisco PAGE I 18 26 37 52 63 74 95 103 125 139 153 171 179 200 225 232 247 260 283 if i 0 WESTERN AVERNUS, CHAPTER I. IN TEXAS. THE wide prairie of North-west Texas, with Nature's sweet breath bearing faint odours of spring flowers, was around me; a plain of few scant trees or smaller brush, with here and there a rounded hill that emphasised the breadth of level land, and again the general surface broken, by quiet creeks and winter rain, into hollow canons beneath me, and beyond them once more the gentle roll of grassy prairie, and hills again. I looked around me and I was alone ; and yet not wholly solitary, for about me strayed a band of sheep, grazing the sweet grasses that were so green when near, and which showed a faint tinge of purple or delicate blue afar off. I was a Texas sheep- herder. A month before I had walked the crowded desolation of unnatural London. My life had been one of many changes. From B THE WESTERN A VERNUS the North of England to the wide brown plains of sunburnt Australia; from her again to the furrows of the ocean for many months of seaman's toil and -danger ; then England's greatest city and life, irksome and delightful by t…
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language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: London : Smith, Elder & Co.
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source: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. F5804.3 .R66
subject: West (U.S.)--Description and travel
subject: Northwest, Canadian--Description and travel
type: Text