THE END OF THE TRAIL: The Far West from New Mexico to British Columbia [SOLD]

THE END OF THE TRAIL: The Far West from New Mexico to British Columbia

By E. Alexander Powell

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1915

Hardback, first edition, published November, 1914. Green fabric on board cover with gold titles and imagery background. 

Forty eight full-page illustrations and map. 463 pages.  Notation on inside cover “Gertrude G. Krupp from Donald May 2, 1916.”

CONTENTS

I. Conquerors of Sun and Sand

II. The Skylanders

III. Chopping a Path to To-Morrow

IV. The Land of Dreams-Come-True

V. Where Gold Grows on Trees

VI. The Coast of Fairyland

VII. The Valley of Heart’s Delight

VIII. The Modern Argonauts

IX. The Inland Empire

X. “Where Rolls the Oregon”

XI. A Frontier Arcady

XII. Breaking the Wilderness

XIII. Clinching the Rivets of Empire

XIV. Back of Beyond

XV. The Map that is Half Unrolled

From the FOREWORD

“But this is the last call.  It is the last chance to see a nation in the primeval stage of its existence.  In a few more years, a very few, there will be no place on this continent, or on any continent, that can truthfully be called the frontier, and with it will disappear, never to return, those stern and hardy figures—the pioneer, the prospector, the packer, the puncher—who won for us the West.

“The real West—and by the term I do not mean that sun-kissed, flower-carpeted coast zone, with its orange groves and apple orchards, its palatial mansions and luxurious hotels, its fashionable resorts and teeming, all-of-a-sudden cities, which stretches from San Diego to Vancouver and which to the Eastern visitor represents ‘the West’—cannot be seen from the terraces of tourist hostelries or the observation platforms of transcontinental trains.  Because I wished to visit those portions of the West which cannot be viewed from a car-window and because I wished to acquaint myself with the characteristics and problems and ideals of the people who dwell in them, I travelled from Mexico to the borders of Alaska by motor-car—the only time, I believe, that a car has made that journey on its own wheels and under its own power.  Because that journey was so crowded with incident and obstacles and adventures thus encountered so graphically illustrate the conditions which prevail in ‘the Last West,’ is my excuse for having to a certain extent made a personal narrative of the following chapters.”

CONDITION:  Book pages in very good condition.  Cover slightly marred and worn but not significantly.