Way to Knpiti 



THIS railroad .... was pushed through a region in 

 which nature, both as regards wild man and wild 

 beast, did not and does not differ materially from what it 

 was in Europe in the late Pleistocene. . . . The 

 teeming multitudes of wild creatures, the stupendous size 

 of some of them, the terrible nature of others, and the 

 low culture of many of the savage tribes, especially of the 

 hunting tribes, substantially reproduced the conditions of 

 life in Europe as it was led by our ancestors ages before 

 the dawn of anything that could be called civilization. 



— Theodore Roosevelt, in Scribner's Magazine. 



