The Mountains

by Stewart Edward White

A trip through California on horseback.

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gonna go live in the Sierra Nevada now, bye