The Young Alaskans in the Rockies

Rob, John, and Jesse are back from Alaska, this time crossing the Canadian Rockies a year or two ahead of the railroad. Their Uncle Dick, an engineer on the preliminary survey, and Moise, the Métis packer and cook, take them up the Athabasca by pack-train, over Yellowhead Pass, and down a rain-ruined trail along the Fraser to Tête Jaune Cache. There the horses go home and heavy plank boats take over, across a low divide and down the Canoe River to the old Boat Encampment, then down the Columbia to Revelstoke. Evenings go to fur-trade history, days to white goats, grizzlies, and rapids nobody wants in high water. Hough was writing for boys in 1913, but he kept the geography honest, and the passes, rivers, and portages are all where he says they are.