Title page

RHYMES

of the

ROCKIES

BY

JAMES W. WHILT

SECOND EDITION

PREFACE

Having spent the major part of my lifein the Rocky Mountains as timbercruiser, packer, trapper and guide, I havelearned to love their beauty and grandeur;enjoy their solitude and feel that they are apart of me.

It is there one can breathe the air of theGreat Out Doors and gaze on mountains andglaciers whose never ending chain stretchesinto space and to listen to the waterfall'slaughter. Where the denizens of the wildroam unmolested as they did for ages past,when man first came to this Virgin Paradise.Where camp-fires still glow at eventide,—theirsmoke wreaths adding incense to thefreshness of the air.

While my words cannot express even in onedetail the beauty as I see it, I truly andsincerely hope these few humble rhymes willpaint in your mind a mental picture that timeitself may impair but not erase.

With these thoughts ever vividly beforeme, I dedicate this book to the RockyMountains and their "wonder child"—the GlacierNational Park.

JAMES W. WHILT.

Eureka, Montana
May 25, 1922

CONTENTS

Adventurer's Luck
Au Revoir
Cabin of Mystery, The
Call of Nature, The
Chinook Wind, The
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