Cruisings in the Cascades, a Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur photography, Hunting, and Fishing, with Special Chapters on Hunting the Grizzly Bear, the Buffalo, Elk, Antelope...

Cruisings in the Cascades, a Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur photography, Hunting, and Fishing, with Special Chapters on Hunting the Grizzly Bear, the Buffalo, Elk, Antelope... Review

This volume contains 339 pages plus 12 pages of illustrated ads, with many woodcuts in the text. Shields has his portrait on the frontis page. Original gilt pictorial cloth. This is an account of the author's sporting adventures in the Cascades, with extensive descriptions of northwestern outdoors scenery. Includes chapters on mountain climbing, the city of Seattle, characteristics of the Flathead Indians, the Chinook Jargon, hunting game, trouting in the mountains, life of the woodsman, descriptions of cowboy life in Montana, etc. Shields wrote several books on sporting life in the Pacific Northwest, as well as on Indian culture in the region.