Excerpt from Life in the World's Wonderland, Illustrated: A Graphic Description of the Great Northwest, From the Mississippi River to the Land of the Midnight Sun; Including Descriptions of Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Fremont, Lincoln, Kansas City, Ottumwa, Fort Madison

I cannot find it in my heart to pass them by. We were not strangers to each other when our Western pilgrimage began. It was a little doubt ful if they were equal to the task, but our associations had been SO pleasant I could not leave them behind. They were my constant com panions. They stood by me in every emergency. Through States and Territories they led me safely on. From St. Paul to Alaska they never faltered. Amid the wilds Of the Columbia Valley they were fearless, heroic. At the terrible Dalles, when a big salmon, maddened because he had come into collision with my hook, nearly pulled me into the river, -my faithful friends clung to the soil and preserved my life. We tramped together through the boiling water Of the National Park 5 down by the great falls of the Yellowstone and through rain, hail, and mud in the Grand Canon. When we emerged from our sojourn in the park, they looked sickly; I feared that the hour Of separation was at hand. During the night they met a young colored physician in the Pullman car, and when I awoke in the morning they were beside my berth, their cheeks glowing in ruddy health. Home was reached and my gratitude promoted my companions to the most exalted position. But Objections were made, they were so big and coarse, and to my great sorrow they were forced upon the retired list, where, amid their venerable com panions, they will relate the wondrous adventures of their journey.

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