. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION BY JOHN BURROUGHS E left New York on the afternoon of May 23, 1899, in a special train of palace cars, and took ship at Seattle the last day of the month. All west of the Mississippi was new land to me, and there was a good deal of it. Throughout the prairie region I, as a farmer, rejoiced in the endless vistas of beautiful fertile farms, all busy with the spring planting, and reaching from horizon to horizon of our flying train. As a home-body and lover of the cosy and picturesque I recoiled from the bald native
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION BY JOHN BURROUGHS E left New York on the afternoon of May 23, 1899, in a special train of palace cars, and took ship at Seattle the last day of the month. All west of the Mississippi was new land to me, and there was a good deal of it. Throughout the prairie region I, as a farmer, rejoiced in the endless vistas of beautiful fertile farms, all busy with the spring planting, and reaching from horizon to horizon of our flying train. As a home-body and lover of the cosy and picturesque I recoiled from the bald native farm houses with their unkempt surroundings, their rude sheds and black muddy barnyards. As one goes West nature is more and more and man less and less. In New England one is surprised to see such busy thriving towns and such in- viting country homes amid a landscape so bleak and barren. In the West on the contrary his surprise is that such opulence of nature should be attended by such squalor and makeshift in the farm buildings and rural villages. Of course the picturesque is not an element of the western (1). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. ). New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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