FAR AND NEAR 



IN GREEN ALASKA 



CROSSING THE CONTINENT 



IT was my good fortune during the summer of 

 1899 to be one of a party of upwards of forty 

 persons whom E. H. Harriman of New York invited 

 to be his guests on a trip to Alaska. The expedition 

 was known as the Harriman Alaska Expedition, 

 and its object was to combine pleasure with scien- 

 tific research and exploration. The party embraced 

 a number of college professors, several specialists 

 from the biological and geological surveys of the 

 Government at Washington, two or three well- 

 known artists, as many literary men, a mining 

 expert, and several friends and relatives of Mr. 

 Harriman. 



We left New York on the afternoon of May 23, 

 in a special train of palace cars, and took ship at 

 Seattle the last day of the month. All west of the 

 Mississippi was new land to me, and there was a 

 good deal of it. Throughout the prairie region, as 



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