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}evening in a canyon of the Rockies, 
when the clouds turn to color and flame 
from horizon to horizon. 
Anything that helps one understand 
nature, that: reveals information about 
wild life or the land or the stream, is 
doubly valuable to a tourist. Often, 
for lack of a botany covering local 
phases of plant life, I have stood 
vexed instead of entranced as I looked 
at some starry flower in the woods or 
fields. Always, the working library 
carried will be found in some ways de- 
ficient. A moving-van truck would not 
carry the information required in books 
for a transcontinental tour. But it is 
not too much for an automobile camper 
to add a few pounds of assorted read- 
ing with which to make memories. 
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cious and worthy memories are those 
relating to reading, or trying to read, 
a book. The tourist actually grows 
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tains become oppressive, the desert cre- 
ates a fear of the great spaces, agorra- 
phobia, and the mind full of repletion 
longs for other gratification, for differ- 
ent food or pabulum or balanced ration 
of impressions. In such circumstances 
a few good books that are large in 
their outlook, deep in their thought and 
great in their substance will prove as 
eventful as crossing Berthoud, or 
seeing the atmosphere over Great Salt 
Lake, or quenching the thirst at a 
sweet spring after weeks of the sting- 
ing alkalis. 
Books are worth while if only a few 
times they occupy the undivided atten- 
tion. A page that one has read be- 
neath the redwoods, or in the purple 
shadow of a rock in the dry and thirsty 
land, or which rested the eyes after too 
long a strain of sight-seeing, becomes 
a relic and a memento of an occassion. 
One ties the mile-stones of human 
thought to the pilot peaks and the 
mountain passes of the trails. The 
Map means not merely things seen, but 
also ideas and ideals realized and their 
significance understood. 
Upon the return from a tour, the 
third period of reading begins. Then 
news items in the papers, articles in 
magazines, fiction of localities, history, 
biography, exploration, geology, forest 
bulletins and books or lectures about 
birds, beasts and streams all come to 
have meanings, interests and pleasures 
that last on through the years. I sub- 
scribe for newspapers that are printed 
in centers of regions in whose affairs I 
take a personal and vivid interest. I 
clip them, accumulating thousands, 
tens of thousands of slips that some- 
how recall a village, a bend in a river, 
an island or a mountain range. 
As I remarked, I am impertinent if 
I tell anyone what to read about the 
regions to be toured. The libraries of 
It will identify you. 
the nation contain too many books for 
selection. But I would fail of my chief 
opportunity—and hope—if I did not 
endeavor to help others to the satisfac- 
tion which I have had because I was 
helped to see a little, at least, by Rus- 
kin, and to think about the significance 
of what I saw by reading Thoreau. 
Tours on which I took no books, and 
went through regions about which I 
had read nothing or remembered but 
a few trivial things, added but little 
to my information, gave but transient 
pleasure, and soon were but casual and 
unimportant memories. 
But when I have paid the price in 
preparation, and gave the effort and 
attention while I was on my way, then 
forever afterwards I find myself read- 
ing and thinking and remembering the 
peak hours of delight—and often at 
the moment, in the midst of difficulty 
or scattering attention, I did not real- 
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“LES RAQUETTES” 
(Continued from page 16) 
this hitch will be found later in this 
article. The “Bearpaw” is generally 
webbed with moose or caribou thongs. 
The latter being finer, permits of finer 
webbing that renders the “shoe” so 
made more adaptable to use early in 
the winter when the snow is light and 
fluffy and has not yet been hardened by 
a thaw. 
There are many types of “shoes” 
which are built more or less on the 
same general lines, with no individ- 
ual characteristics worth mentioning. 
These all form a sort of “happy me- 
dium” that really serves the needs of 
the average sportsmen quite well, de- 
pending upon the degree of rough usage 
they will be subjected to. As a class 
these are dubbed by woodsmen “pump- 
kin-seed” shoes, and among these the 
diamond-shaped “Perry” (Fig. 7) is 
probably the most singular. This shoe, 
however, designed for Perry’s Arctic 
expedition, was constructed for exactly 
the same purposes as I have described 
in reference to the “Penobscot.” For 
the most part the names of these 
“pumpkin-seed” shoes are purely trade 
names, and policy does not permit of 
my going into that detail. They are 
easily recognized by their general re- 
semblance to Fig. 2, and are usually 
webbed with cowhide, with a guarantee 
not to sag, that has, in my experience, 
held up pretty well even in the thaw 
season when the shoes get thoroughly 
soaked. Caribou hide will not stand 
up well when the snow is wet, for the 
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