CONTENTS 



I. Wild Wool 3 



II. A Geologist's Winter Walk . . 19 



III. Summer Days at Mount Shasta . 29 



IV. A Perilous Night on Shasta's Sum- 

 mit 57 



v. Shasta Rambles and Modoc Memo- 

 ries 82 



VI. The City of the Saints . . . 105 



VII. A Great Storm in Utah . . . 114 



VIII. Bathing in Salt Lake . . . .121 



IX. Mormon Lilies 126 



X. The San Gabriel Valley . . .136 



XL The San Gabriel Mountains . . 145 



XII. Nevada Farms 154 



XIII. Nevada Forests 164 



XIV. Nevada's Timber Belt . . . .174 

 XV. Glacial Phenomena in Nevada . 184 



XVI. Nevada's Dead Towns .... 195 



XVII. PuGET Sound 204 



XVIII. The Forests of Washington , . 227 

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