I. The general idea -- II. The geographical problem -- III. The immigrant train -- IV. Edmonton -- V. Athbasca landing -- VI. The Athabasca River -- VII. Grand rapids -- VIII. The Slave River -- IX. Great Slave Lake -- X. Fort Simpson -- XI. The Mackenzie River -- XII. Fort McPherson --XIII. The Eskimo -- XIV. The first traffic with the Indians -- XV. The Peel River -- The upper Peel River and the valley of noises -- XVII. Gold -- XVIII. The winter camp -- XIX. Prospecting and exploration -- XX. Bears and wolves -- XXI. The winter night -- XXII. The Indians' visit -- XXIII. Dogs -- XXIV. The broken knee -- XXV. The last of the white men -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVI. The Indian Camp -- XXVII. Caribou -- XXVIII. The old lady -- XXIX. Famine and riot -- XXX. Mitchell becomes an Indian -- XXXI. An Indian "Veillee" -- XXXII. Women -- XXXIII. The closest shave of all -- XXXIV. The skin boats -- XXXV. Summer hunting -- XXXVI. Mitchell remains an Indian -- XXXVII. The last of the Indians.
PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.
Foreword / John Burnham -- I. Introduction / Robert Sterling Yard -- II. In the shadow of Mt. McKinley -- III. Along the north side of the Alaskan range to Mt. Dall: expedition of 1925 -- IV. Jenny of Mt. McKinley -- V. Rainy Pass, saddle of the range: expedition of 1926 -- VI. Exploration of 1930 -- VII. Early exploration and later developments in the Mt. McKinley country -- VIII. Mt. McKinley National Park -- IX. American big game animals: mountain sheep, caribou, moose, deer and elk, bear, goat -- X. On conservation of big game.
I. England's Colonial Secret ; II. Laying the Structural Base of the Thirteen Colonies ; III. The Growth of Economic and Poltical Power ; IV. Provincial America ; V. The Clash of Metropolis and Colony ; VI. Independence and Civil Conflict ; VII. Populism and Reaction ; VIII. The Rise of National Parties ; IX. Agricultural Imperialism and the Balance of Power ; X. The The Young Republic ; XI. New Agricultural States ; XII. Jacksonian Democracy -- A Triumphant Farmer-Labor Party ; XIII. Westward to the Pacific ; XIV. The Sweep of Economic Forces ; XV. The Politics of the Economic Drift ; XVI. Democracy: Romantic and Realistic
Pertains to the ski technique developed by Hannes Schneider as explained by his former assistant Benno Rybizka - includes photographs
Contents
Foreward by Hannes Schneider
Introduction
Equipment
Learn to Walk and Climb
Downhill Running
The First Two Fundamental Exercises
The Third Fundamental Exercise
Speed Turns
Jump Turns and Terrain Jumps
Skiing and the Hannes Schneider Technique
Notes
Inscribed “ Elizabeth Rummel - Howard Carlson, Assiniboine, March 1940”
Benno Rybizka - former assistant to Hannes Schneider at St. Anton am Arlberg in the Austrian Tyrol
Game Wardens find out who killed the cock robin
Colonists found a “Blue Robin”
Three wives in a single season
Cousins of the Nightingale
Woodlands ring with flutelike music
The Mockingbird is a world-famous vocalist
Swallows of a feather flock together
What’s in a name?
Townsend’s Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi)
Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius)
Olive-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni)
Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina)
Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttata)
Veery (Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens)
Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis sialis)
Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana)
Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides)
Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)
Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus)
Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos)
Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre)
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum)
Bendire’s Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei)
California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum redivivum)
Crissal Thrasher (Toxostoma dorsale dorsale)
Leconte’s Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei lecontei)
Purple Martin (Progne subis)
Northern Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon albifrons albifrons)
Barn Swallow (Hirundo erhthrogaster)
Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina lepida)
Tree Swallow (Iridoprocne bicolor)
Bank Swallow (Riparia Riparia Riparia)
American Pipit (Anthus spinoletta spinoletta)
Sprague’s Pipit (Anthus spraguei)
Horned Lark (Otocoris alpestris)
Notes
Reprinted from National Geographic, Volume LXIX, No. 4, April 1936
Pertains to lighting fixtures available through Industrial Arts Shop in Boston in 1930 via mail order - 46 cards in a portfolio with three typed sheets with pricing information