Another Summer: The Yellowstone Park and Alaska

The author records a summer journey across North America that combines travel narrative, practical observation, and close natural description. Beginning with rail passages to a famous mountain park, the account details hot springs, geysers, terraced basins, and the canyon and falls of a central river, then continues west along the Columbia to Pacific towns and aboard a coastal steamer bound for Alaska. The narrative describes glacier approaches, coastal settlements, mining camps, a shipboard accident, and anecdotes gathered on the return trip. Chapters alternate vivid landscape sketches with logistical notes on routes, accommodations, transport, and the everyday experience of long-distance travel.