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  BOY SCOUTS IN GLACIER PARK

  Books by WALTER P. EATON

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  The Great Continental Divide and the Game Trail Alongthe Top]

  Boy Scouts in Glacier Park

  The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies

  By WALTER PRICHARD EATON

  Illustrated with Photographs by FRED H. KISER

  W. A. WILDE COMPANY BOSTON CHICAGO

  Copyrighted, 1918, BY W. A. WILDE COMPANY All rights reserved

  BOY SCOUTS IN GLACIER PARK

  To FRED H. KISER

  who photographs mountains so well because he loves them so much Best of companions on the high trails and around the evening camp-fire

  FOREWORD

  Glacier Park is one of the newest, as well as one of the most beautiful,of our National Parks. It is peculiarly fitted to be a summerplayground, both for men and women who prefer to travel on horseback and"rough it" by putting up at a hotel at night, and for the true mountainlovers, who delight to use their own legs in climbing, and to sleepunder the stars. This book has been written primarily to show YoungAmerica just how interesting, exciting, full of outdoor adventure, andfull, too, of real education, life in this National park can be. We canpromise our boy readers, and their parents, too, that there isn't any"faking" in this story. The trips we tell about are all real trips, andif you go to Glacier Park you can take them all--all, that is, except,perhaps, the climb up the head wall of Iceberg Lake. You have to have areal mountaineer as a guide, with a real Alpine rope, in order to makethat trip. It was fortunate for Tom that one came along. Then, too,unless you stay in the Park over the winter, you haven't much chance ofriding down a mountain on a snowslide. Possibly you wouldn't want to. Inever knew anybody who took that trip intentionally! Tom and Joe and theRanger were unlucky enough to take it, and lucky enough to live to tellthe tale.

  This book isn't written just to use the Rocky Mountains as a backgroundfor adventures which never really could happen to ordinary boys. It iswritten, on the contrary, to show what fine adventures can happen toordinary boys, in one of the finest and most healthful and beautifulspots in this great country of ours, if only the boys have pluck, andhave been good Scouts enough to learn how to take care of themselves inthe open.

  And it is written, too, in order to tell about Glacier Park, to make youwant to go there and see it for yourself, to make you glad and proudthat the United States has set aside for the use of all the public sucha splendid playground, and to make you, if possible, more determinedthan ever to protect this, and all our other parks and State andNational forests, from the attacks of the men who are always trying toget laws passed to let them spoil the meadows and the wildflowers withtheir sheep, or cut the forests for timber, putting their selfish gainabove the welfare of the whole people.

  W. P. E.

  Twin Fires Sheffield, Massachusetts 1918