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former position with the hated "Hudson Bay" ! He was even deprived of the 

 land he had acquired, and died in Oregon City discredited and unhonored. 

 Long after his death a repentant people hailed him as "The Father of 

 Oregon." 



Both the dramatic style and the subject-matter of this volume hold the 



reader's interest throughout. H. M. Le Conte 



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Guide to This will prove a most useful little volume to all those who 



Giant Forest* visit Sequoia National Park, whether on the first visit or 

 after having already made several visits. As its name implies, 

 it is frankly a guide-book. It is filled with just the information needed to assist 

 one in making the numerous attractive trips in and about Giant Forest or to 

 more remote points in and about Sequoia National Park. A section is devoted 

 to each of the trips, and in each is included a table of distances and walking- 

 time, as well as descriptions of all points of interest. A detailed map of Giant 

 Forest and a trail map of Sequoia National Park will be found to be useful 

 supplements to the more detailed map of the park published by the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey. Very brief chapters are devoted to the history of the region and 

 to the wild animals, birds, trees, fishing, and wild flowers. W. L. H. 



Westward Mrs. Winifred Dixon has done a piece of work in her V/estward 

 Hoboes t Hoboes that was worth doing, and it is a pleasure to pronounce 

 it well done. The narrative and the illustrations combine to make 

 a delightful handbook on what to see and how to see it in the little-known 

 Southwest. Nor must the thoroughly satisfactory map be omitted. No one can 

 fail to have perceived what a difference maps make in the study of history or 

 geography. Hendrik Van Loon, in his Story of Mankind, and M. B. Synge, 

 in A Book of Discovery, understood this, placing elephants where lesser men 

 set down the names of towns, and savages or cannibals where tribal names 

 might have made no impression at all. So Miss Thaxter (the "Toby" of the 

 adventures) has the good sense to represent bad roads in Texas by an auto- 

 mobile sunk to the hubs in mud, to indicate danger by bandits, and, in short, 

 to make her map as vivid as her companion's story makes her. 



The book presents really valuable information to guide the motorist through 

 the wonders which are to be seen along the route taken by these "adventure- 

 some females." They traversed Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, bits of Utah, 

 Colorado, Montana, Minnesota, and so home. Their adventures are wittily told, 

 and undoubtedly some of their tales will become classics of the road. Begin- 

 ning with the judge who said that he would take the fact that they were 

 strangers in Texas into consideration, and who thereupon fined them far in 

 excess of the native sinner, to the last incident, where after a night spent 

 through inhospitality out in the rain-soaked streets they wake to find them- 



*Guide to Giant Forest. By Aijsel F. Hall. Published by the Author, Yosemite. Pages, 

 127, Price, 50 cents. 



^Westward Hoboes. By Winifred Hawkridge Dixon. Photographs by Katherine Thax- 

 ter and Rollin Lester Dixon. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Price, $4.00. 



