The Mountains

by Stewart Edward White

A true sequence of events in the great mountains of North America, where the trails are few and bad.

Table of Contents
Chapter
1 The Ridge Trail
2 On Equipment
3 On Horses
4 How to Go About It
5 The Coast Ranges
6 The Inferno
7 The Foot-Hills
8 The Pines
9 The Trail
10 On Seeing Deer
11 On Tenderfeet
12 The Canon
13 Trout, Buckskin, and Prospectors
14 On Camp Cookery
15 On the Wind at Night
16 The Valley
17 The Main Crest
18 The Giant Forest
19 On Cowboys
20 The Golden Trout
21 On Going Out
22 The Lure of the Trail

282 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1904

About the author

From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote fiction and non-fiction about adventure and travel, with an emphasis on natural history and outdoor living. Starting in 1922, he and his wife Elizabeth "Betty" Grant White wrote numerous books they claimed were received through channelling with spirits. They also wrote of their travels around the state of California. White died in Hillsborough, California.

Reviews

[Shelly]

I wasn't that excited to read this book because it was so old, but a friend recommended it so I was curious. I was very pleasantly surprised within the first paragraph. Told in the first person, this is the story of three cowboys who travel from southern California to Yosemite on horseback. The language used made me long to be a writer!

[Jonathan Hendricks]

Entertaining advice on roughing it in the wilderness a hundred years ago. Humourous anecdotes, antiquated speech habits, and some funny stuff about foul-mouthed cowboys and a city-slicker sidekick called Tenderfoot.

[Rebecca Russavage]

Gonna go live in the Sierra Nevada now, bye